Subject: Not really.
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Posted on: 2012-01-31 16:06:00 UTC
Unless "you're not e.e. cummings" is a slur of some sort now, I guess, but I think that would be news to all of us.
Good spelling, punctuation, and grammar is one of the rules in our constitution. Reminding people of this is not mean. Being frustrated at having to repeat it is also not mean.
~Neshomeh
Accessing the board a short time ago? Or was it something from my side?
Now that you mention it, it did seem to be down for a short while. I wonder why?
yea actually me too. i checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and that said it was down too
I mentioned it once before; please use proper spelling and punctuation on the board (and spelling as well).
Sorry, I've been up a couple days and I forgot.
But that was a bit mean.
There are posts right after when I had first asked you, where you returned to not capitalizing things that ought be and not having punctuation where it ought.
Beyond that, no, it wasn't intended as being mean, because it was supposed to be a friendly poke; your username here on the board is melancholicPoet and you've displayed a rather idiosyncratic attitude in regards to punctuation and capitalization.
Much like e.e. cummings, the poet.
Unless "you're not e.e. cummings" is a slur of some sort now, I guess, but I think that would be news to all of us.
Good spelling, punctuation, and grammar is one of the rules in our constitution. Reminding people of this is not mean. Being frustrated at having to repeat it is also not mean.
~Neshomeh
I know. I have been using fora that require a fast response, as opposed to SPaG, for years and old habits die hard. I'll strive a bit harder to catch myself on that before I hit post.
I didn't take offense at being reminded, it was at the "e.e. cummings" thing. I'm bad at recognizing when something is friendly, and when it's vitriolic, worse when I'm tired.
we should also have an e.e. cummings room! where dialogue, everyone's, becomes uncapitalized
and they are stricken
with the urge, inexplicable
to reverse words their
This is a terrible and glorious idea.
It leads me to wonder what other "creative people with idiosyncratic styles" rooms there might be out there. A James Joyce room, where suddenly quotation marks don't exist and making sense is optional? A Shakespeare room, where everything comes out in iambic pentameter?
Do these places exist because the affected sections of HQ were built in the relevant universe?
Oh dear oh dear. *g*
~Neshomeh
Everybody will walk into the Hemmingway Room. It will have beige walls. It will also have a grey carpet. The mood lighting will be flat and fluorescent. The air will be cold but not too cold. Three tables and six chairs will be in the room. They will be made of wood. Everyone will sit and talk at those tables. When they talk, they will all talk like this. Nobody will reflect on anything in the Hemmingway room. Nobody will use complex syntax. The narration will depict only action and never any action more than two lines long.
Do it do it do it!
And thus started a rabid redecorating of HQ. XD
Because I've had no problems accessing it at all.
Then again, it also helps if you specify what 'a short time ago' is. :P
It was around 45 minutes to an hour before my original post, I tried multiple times over a period of 20 minutes but it kept saying it couldn't find the page.