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kahlid74:
I'm not a fan of calling people out but take Ark's comments with a grain of salt.  They aren't accurate.

As for the data tethering you're talking about mine is included in my data plan, but then again I've got the iPhone so there may be something special tied to that.  I get 5 GB and data tethering for $50/mo.  Have you tried seeing if you're employer gets a local discount?  When I took my wife's old iPhone 4 and added the data tethering I was not too pleased at the cost.  Then they checked and my employer gives me a 40% discount on all personal service and now my bill is less than it was before lol.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on April 16, 2012, 05:31:35 am ---p.s. I fixed your spelling mistake, punctuation, grammar, and tried to make sense of your diction.  :cheers:

--- End quote ---

 :laugh2:

Nice try, Ark. And by nice I mean, LMAO

Okay, putting aside for a second the general asshattery of rewriting my post to correct my "spelling . . . , punctuation, grammar . . . , and diction," let's have a look. You turned this:


--- Quote from: shmokes on April 15, 2012, 08:30:37 pm ---Are your online and real life personas at all similar? Because that would be sort of awesome.

--- End quote ---

Into this:


--- Quote from: ark_ader on April 16, 2012, 05:31:35 am ---Is your online and real life persona, at all similar? Because, that would be sort of awesome.

--- End quote ---

I can detect no spelling correction whatsoever. What misspelled word did you correct?

Next I see that you've changed my "are" to "is" and changed "personas" into its singular form, "persona". So we're talking about subject/verb agreement. Let's check the rule (Strunk and White, 3rd edition): The number of the subject determines the number of the verb . . . . A compound subject formed of two or more nouns joined by and almost always requires a plural verb. The following illustrative example is provided: The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand. My sentenced contained a compound subject formed of two nouns joined by and (online and real life personas), and thus requires the plural verb "are".

You also inexplicably added a comma after the word "persona". This comma is so blatantly and laughably out of place as to require no explanation. It makes a previously readable sentence clumsy and confusing. Commas aren't like confetti or sprinkles, Ark.

And lastly, you added a comma following the "because" in my last sentence. The "because" in that sentence is a conjunction, joining two independent clauses ("Are your online and real life personas at all similar" and "that would be awesome"). Again, we can turn to Strunk and White for the rule (Rule 4, as it happens): Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause. [Emphasis mine]

Hence, if I had written the whole thing in a single sentence it would be, "Are your online and real life personas at all similar, because that would be sort of awesome," and not, "Are your online and real life personas at all similar, because, that would be sort of awesome." But since I separated it into two sentences, the comma before the conjunction is replaced by a period.

But best of all, who gives a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---? We're having an informal conversation. One of the sentences in my original post is, "WTF?" That sentence is not grammatical. Part of understanding the rules of grammar is knowing how to break them to good effect. Moreover, I make non-deliberate grammatical errors regularly enough. Just not in the sentences you attempted to deconstruct.

Hoopz:
This thread is already making me wish for the "buttrock" thread to come back to life.   :banghead:

Le Chuck:
Not me, I'm starting to warm to this thread.  Keep it coming, I haven't been this entertained since lice that which shall not be named.

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on April 16, 2012, 10:35:34 am ---Not me, I'm starting to warm to this thread.  Keep it coming, I haven't been this entertained since lice that which shall not be named.

--- End quote ---
Bah, you're just collecting info for your "Worst thread of 2012 Award".   ;D

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