Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:44:24 PM No.24534745
Why do these scare people so much nowadays?
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Thread 24534745 - /lit/ [Archived: 463 hours ago]
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:56:39 PM No.24534805
>>24534745 (OP)
use it perfectly in a 7 sentence (strictly) paragraph right now and I'll answer your question
use it perfectly in a 7 sentence (strictly) paragraph right now and I'll answer your question
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:58:40 PM No.24534814
>>24534745 (OP)
I don’t know; It really doesn’t matter
I don’t know; It really doesn’t matter
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 9:00:12 PM No.24534819
>>24534814
It’*
It’*
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 9:04:07 PM No.24534836
where can i actually learn grammar they aint teach us shit in public school
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 9:15:29 PM No.24534875
>>24534836
Chicago guide to grammar usage and punctuation
Chicago guide to grammar usage and punctuation
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 12:41:16 AM No.24535574
Not gonna lie, I don't know a damn thing about grammar despite all the books I've read
Anonymouṡ
7/10/2025, 12:50:49 AM No.24535607
>>24534745 (OP)
They don’t.
Here's a more interesting question. Why is it that full stops, commas etc are routinely put *inside* inverted commas, even when it’s logically incorrect?
In all the books I read it seems to be standard to say something like this:
The dog’s name was “Lassie.”
But this is surely nonsense. It should be:
The dog’s name was “Lassie”.
What’s going on here?
They don’t.
Here's a more interesting question. Why is it that full stops, commas etc are routinely put *inside* inverted commas, even when it’s logically incorrect?
In all the books I read it seems to be standard to say something like this:
The dog’s name was “Lassie.”
But this is surely nonsense. It should be:
The dog’s name was “Lassie”.
What’s going on here?
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 12:56:24 AM No.24535625
>>24534745 (OP)
Average reading comprehension of adults in america is rated at a fourth-grade reading level. 50 percent are therefore reading, writing, speaking, and thinking at a sub-fourth grade level. Of the top 50 percent, the majority are still below an 8th grade literacy level. The death of religious study, the death of the novel and newspaper, and the rise of video content and short-form social media content has melted the brains of 3 generations of americans. Why do you think A-grade students get their essays flagged as AI-generated? It is because using semicolons, em dashes, and other basic grammar tools is so rare that utilizing them properly, structuring essays with evidence, applying rhetorical devices, using sensible metaphors and similes - these are now signs of artifice. We live in a post-literate society. There is no general literati and the intellegentsia (if you can call them that) that dwells on substack, X, and medium also write with a generally primitive and childlike prose. This is how cultures die. The great cultures of the world - the Chinese, Arabic, Persian, the Romance/Latin traditions, and formerly English - pride themselves on good thought, good prose, deep reflection, technical skill that evokes emotion. If you read old scientific papers, old anthropology and sociology books, naturalist books about plants and animals from before 2000, they all write so well! Beautiful, pleasant writing. This is the little dark age of literacy; there may be a return, or there may be a slow descent into sub-feudal vulgarity. Currently the population of the west has a lower general literacy than the average farmer of the pioneer age. The center has not only not held, but inverted to the degree that anti-intellectualism is the new center of English-language content production.
>U got dat nigga?
>Das on slime fine shyt we fuckin up dat shi
>Ayo chatgpt make me a resume n keep it rizzy
>tf is a sillabel nigga talk in english nun dat diddy shi big word ass nga i cant feel u when u slide on me wit dem big ass words nigga
Average reading comprehension of adults in america is rated at a fourth-grade reading level. 50 percent are therefore reading, writing, speaking, and thinking at a sub-fourth grade level. Of the top 50 percent, the majority are still below an 8th grade literacy level. The death of religious study, the death of the novel and newspaper, and the rise of video content and short-form social media content has melted the brains of 3 generations of americans. Why do you think A-grade students get their essays flagged as AI-generated? It is because using semicolons, em dashes, and other basic grammar tools is so rare that utilizing them properly, structuring essays with evidence, applying rhetorical devices, using sensible metaphors and similes - these are now signs of artifice. We live in a post-literate society. There is no general literati and the intellegentsia (if you can call them that) that dwells on substack, X, and medium also write with a generally primitive and childlike prose. This is how cultures die. The great cultures of the world - the Chinese, Arabic, Persian, the Romance/Latin traditions, and formerly English - pride themselves on good thought, good prose, deep reflection, technical skill that evokes emotion. If you read old scientific papers, old anthropology and sociology books, naturalist books about plants and animals from before 2000, they all write so well! Beautiful, pleasant writing. This is the little dark age of literacy; there may be a return, or there may be a slow descent into sub-feudal vulgarity. Currently the population of the west has a lower general literacy than the average farmer of the pioneer age. The center has not only not held, but inverted to the degree that anti-intellectualism is the new center of English-language content production.
>U got dat nigga?
>Das on slime fine shyt we fuckin up dat shi
>Ayo chatgpt make me a resume n keep it rizzy
>tf is a sillabel nigga talk in english nun dat diddy shi big word ass nga i cant feel u when u slide on me wit dem big ass words nigga
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 1:02:45 AM No.24535641
>>24535607
I used to write the latter in my Spanish, but then when I saw how it's used in English, I immediately liked it more, and it's easier to remember how to use it. It always felt wrong to me to leave a quote without punctuation inside the quotes, and if you did put them as in the original source, you get double punctuation, inside and outside.
I used to write the latter in my Spanish, but then when I saw how it's used in English, I immediately liked it more, and it's easier to remember how to use it. It always felt wrong to me to leave a quote without punctuation inside the quotes, and if you did put them as in the original source, you get double punctuation, inside and outside.