Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Oh please, do illuminate us with your brilliance....... Link to comment
Scott Hartnell's Mane Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Nope.....I would like the darkness of the 'ironing' lit up with the light bulb of alleged brilliance..... il·lu·mi·nate (-lm-nt) v. il·lu·mi·nat·ed, il·lu·mi·nat·ing, il·lu·mi·nates v.tr. 1. To provide or brighten with light. 2. To decorate or hang with lights. 3. To make understandable; clarify: "Cleverly made attacks can . . . serve to illuminate important differences between candidates" (New Republic). 4. To enlighten intellectually or spiritually; enable to understand. 5. To endow with fame or splendor; celebrate. 6. To adorn (a page of a book, for example) with ornamental designs, miniatures, or lettering in brilliant colors or precious metals. 7. To expose to or reveal by radiation. v.intr. 1. To become lighted; glow. 2. To provide intellectual or spiritual enlightenment and understanding: "Once you decide to titillate instead of illuminate, you're on a slippery slope" (Bill Moyers). 3. To be exposed to or revealed by radiation. n. (-nt) One who has or professes to have an unusual degree of enlightenment. Link to comment
Bertuzzi Babe Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 He goes on to say I can't form a proper sentence 1 minute after I had already edited my inital post because I missed a k in a word. He says this in a sentence that is lacking proper punctuation (last I checked to form a sentence requires punctuation) and becareful BB you are treading awfully near a personal attack, you know the ones that you are so fond of reporting. Link to comment
Scott Hartnell's Mane Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 He goes on to say I can't form a proper sentence 1 minute after I had already edited my inital post because I missed a k in a word. He says this in a sentence that is lacking proper punctuation (last I checked to form a sentence requires punctuation) and becareful BB you are treading awfully near a personal attack, you know the ones that you are so fond of reporting. Link to comment
Bertuzzi Babe Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Technically as Shift's sentence contained an ellipsis...and a very extended one, I might add...and an ellipsis is in fact a form of punctuation...his sentence does contain punctuation. Link to comment
Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Yep, it contains punctuation, and used in a correct form of such. Link to comment
Bertuzzi Babe Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Except he starts his sentence with a conjunction and doesn't use a comma, so it has nothing to do with the ellipsis. Link to comment
Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Congrats on the backpedal. Link to comment
Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Congrats on the backpedal attempt. Link to comment
Bertuzzi Babe Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I'm sorry are commas no longer punctuation? Link to comment
Scott Hartnell's Mane Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Except he starts his sentence with a conjunction and doesn't use a comma, so it has nothing to do with the ellipsis. Link to comment
Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Correct me if I'm wrong here...and I admit it's been a while since I tutored in Language Arts...but his statement was "Yet you have trouble forming a sentence...." If i'm not mistaken, "yet" is one of those funky words that can be used with or without a comma to begin a sentence. Subject and predicate are both present, with the ellipsis taking the place of a period. That's a sentence. Link to comment
Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 There is a law that "yet" must always be followed by a comma? Good to know..... Link to comment
Scott Hartnell's Mane Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 You are right but as there is no preceding sentence it is a conjunction. I went to Barney's house. Yet there was no beer. - doesn't need a comma Yet, this whole topic is stupid. - Does Link to comment
Bertuzzi Babe Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Scrambling for an answer that fits what has already been said and is ass-covering is rewarded with an extra point. 12/11 for effort. "I went to Barney's house with the worst case of cotton mouth you could imagine. I scoured the refrigerator with raised expectations. He had a nice stash of vodka, yet there was no beer." The odd thing however is that if I were to use your example, my grammar teacher would shout at me that those two mini sentences need to be a part of one single sentence. I went to Barney's house, yet there was no beer. This topic is indeed stupid, but I won't remember it later anyway. Carry on. Link to comment
Scott Hartnell's Mane Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Scrambling for an answer that fits what has already been said and is ass covering is rewarded with an extra point. 12/11 for effort. Damn that no beer thing. I just hate it when that happens, don't you? Link to comment
Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 "I went to Barney's house with the worst case of cotton mouth you could imagine. I scoured the refrigerator with raised expectations. He had a nice stash of vodka, yet there was no beer." The odd thing however is that if I were to use your example, my grammar teacher would shout at me that those two mini sentences need to be a part of one single sentence. I went to Barney's house, yet there was no beer. This topic is indeed stupid, but I won't remember it later anyway. Carry on. Link to comment
Bertuzzi Babe Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I aim to educate, not castigate, my lady Link to comment
Scott Hartnell's Mane Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Ultimately its ridiculous to go off about, grammar, sentence structure or spelling on hockey fourms. Half of us are probably drunk! Link to comment
Aladeen Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Scrambling for an answer that fits what has already been said and is ass-covering is rewarded with an extra point. 12/11 for effort. Link to comment
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