don't end your sentences in prepositions

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Dave

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It's not nanny state as much as trying to prevent forest fires instead of putting them out after they blaze a trail of destruction across several threads. If I could trust people not to talk and snipe at each other like third graders on XBox Live I would.
 
Dave

Dave

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Hate Speech – We are a very open community and have many, many walks of life. We have people from many races, sexual orientations and religions. Knowing this, hate speech will not be tolerated. Racial epithets or slurs against sexual orientation are not going to be tolerated. If these are reported we will take action. At the very least a warning and 1 point infraction will be assessed, although it is up to the discretion of the mod to give more.
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Rules. We are bound by them as much as you. Were we to ban capriciously we'd deserve all the derision you could throw at us.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Err, didn't mean forever or anything. I forgot about the infractions thing. ANYWAYS

I agree with ElJuski up earlier. It's really easy to re-do a sentence to not have a preposition at the end. I dunno why it's started to irk me lately, but I guess enough to post a thread.
 
Dave

Dave

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I always go back and change my writing when I find myself doing that, but when speaking it's a whole lot harder to change what you are saying. Once you get past a certain point in the sentence it's impossible to retract.
 
ElJuski

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I think most of the time its just redundant. It's not akin to murdering someone, but if it clarifies and strengthens your writing through clarity and concision, then why not? Besides, rules (and threads) are little writing challenges. Work out that writing muscle, people!
 
Chippy

Chippy

herp derp louis ck and south park said it's ok for me to say faggot now

But no seriously, that word is awful
 
ElJuski

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Louis CK didn't even say it was okay. There's layers to what the man has actually said--including the awesome discussion on that episode of Louie. It has empowered all sorts of 30-40 somethings to continue to be obnoxious clowns under the guise of "edge", because, like, homos are so gay, bro.

Seriously, calling people f"aggo"t ironically was edgy a decade ago. Now it's just shorthand for stupid.
 
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SeraRelm

Why is there even a filter if people are still going to use the word but just add an apostrophe or extra letter to it?
 
ElJuski

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SeraRelm said:
Why is there even a filter if people are still going to use the word but just add an apostrophe or extra letter to it?
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which is why the censorship is a stupid thing to begin with. It should be unnecessary, but here we are.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I'm surprised this shit hasn't been locked yet. I also thought that word that rhymes with maggot was only used by 12-year old Xbox Live players.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I think it's remarkable that you guys turned a thread with good natured ribbing in regards to such a trivial thing as grammar and actual discussion and enquiry in regards to grammar, into people slinging around bigoted epithets.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Dammit, I thought starting a new thing could've been an animated gif for "PREPOSITION ENDING?" but with kicking in a door. Sadly, I can't seem to find some treasure trove of said gifs.
 
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