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Topic: Are these people for real????
PATSFAN Joined Mon 12/10/07 Posts: 42782	Mon 03/09/09 01:50 PM
I'm happy you have found someone

gerowulf Joined Sat 01/17/09 Posts: 181	Mon 03/09/09 02:15 PM
Thank you bellatattoo.I am very proud for that compliment.It means a lot to me,so i have not to be ashamed of myself that i write from time to time a fault.Thank you very much Belladonna.

Bellatattoos Joined Fri 01/09/09 Posts: 198	Mon 03/09/09 04:29 PM
Thank you bellatattoo.I am very proud for that compliment.It means a lot to me,so i have not to be ashamed of myself that i write from time to time a fault.Thank you very much Belladonna.

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Mon 03/09/09 05:57 PM
I just got the following message: damn girl your beautiful marry me .... SERIOUSLY? Does that ever work? A few things here. One, this person spelled "your" wrong. I understand not everyone is a spelling genie but "your" is a very small word. Not many letters at all! And learning the difference between "your" and "you're" will prove you graduated the first grade. "Your" is possessive, as in "That is YOUR book." And "you're" means "you are" as in "damn girl YOU ARE beautiful." Just think of that ' as a little bookmark between "you" and "are." Rule 711 of internet dating: No one actually knows the difference between "your" and "you're," or between "loose" and "lose" ("I'm tired of dating loosers!"), or "to" and "too" and "two." People have a "sence" of humor and are looking for a "solemate." Apostrophes are a total conundrum. You'll see things like "I saw too dog's chewing on bone's by the tree's in the back yard by the rock's." People don't get it that apostrophes are used for contractions and possessives, and not typically for plurals. (There are, of course, a few exceptions, but let's not even get into that.) Second. Try punctuation. "Damn girl, you're beautiful. Marry me?" Right. Now ask the guy to give you sixty-eight billion dollars and the deed to France. (Although he may not understand unless yoiu spell it Frantz.) You'll note that my grammatical and spelling corrections do not make this message much better. Why? Because you don't propose marriage on the internet with someone you don't know! Rawr. Where's that millionaire Nigerian prince when I need true love? You can teach spelling and grammar and punctuation -- up to a point. I don't think you can teach substance and content, though. In fact, those may not even exist anymore.

Nyteflame Joined Sat 10/25/08 Posts: 338	Mon 03/09/09 06:07 PM Edited by Nyteflame on Mon 03/09/09 06:08 PM
It is hard to resist answering posts like this when you are an English major. You know, if you want to be grammatically correct "Marry me?" is not a complete question. It is a fragment. Adding the words "Will you" in front of it would make it complete. Just like your sentence, "A few things here,” again, another fragment. Not a full complete sentence. Actually, if you make the question mark into an exclamation point or a period "Marry me!" would be a complete sentence. This is an imperative sentence, and the subject is understood to be "you". We just went over imperatives and "subjects in unusual orders" a few weeks ago with my students. Is "do me" a complete sentence? If so please, do me ! The same rule applies there. If you say "Do me." it is indeed a complete sentence. Just the same, I would rather not. Edit: The English teacher misplaced a comma. >.<

whispertoascream Joined Fri 11/17/06 Posts: 22844	Mon 03/09/09 07:29 PM
You know, if you want to be grammatically correct "Marry me?" is not a complete question. It is a fragment. Adding the words "Will you" in front of it would make it complete. Just like your sentence, "A few things here,” again, another fragment. Not a full complete sentence. Sentence fragments don't bother me so much. Except in internet marriage proposals. Just trying to point out, do not be so quick to judge others, when we are all flawed ourselves. Oh I don't claim not to be flawed. I love flaws. Flaws are cool. If you bite your nails, have OCD, listen to Britney Spears--whatever the flaw--that's totally cool with me. But I will most certainly judge someone for proposing marriage to me, a stranger, on the internet. But you see, you were not attacking that issue, you were attacking a whole other one. Big difference between grammar and a marriage proposal.

lulu24 Joined Sun 02/11/07 Posts: 6033	Mon 03/09/09 08:44 PM
i got one the other day asking if i like phone sex... i replied that some users might be offended by such emails and added that he could feel free to message me with any site-related questions. signed, Lori Moderator um...he deactivated. i wonder why?

violeteves Joined Wed 09/10/08 Posts: 83	Mon 03/09/09 08:57 PM
You know, if you want to be grammatically correct "Marry me?" is not a complete question. It is a fragment. Adding the words "Will you" in front of it would make it complete. Just like your sentence, "A few things here,” again, another fragment. Not a full complete sentence. Sentence fragments don't bother me so much. Except in internet marriage proposals. Just trying to point out, do not be so quick to judge others, when we are all flawed ourselves. Oh I don't claim not to be flawed. I love flaws. Flaws are cool. If you bite your nails, have OCD, listen to Britney Spears--whatever the flaw--that's totally cool with me. But I will most certainly judge someone for proposing marriage to me, a stranger, on the internet. But you see, you were not attacking that issue, you were attacking a whole other one. Big difference between grammar and a marriage proposal. I think I'll remain the expert on what I was doing, but thanks for your friendly tips. :)