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07-17-21, 05:26 PM
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I seen a lot of bikes for sell on facebook with wired petals.
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And as long as we are teaching:
"When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors. Didactic is often used in a negative way. If you heard that a movie is overly didactic, that's probably not good. Most people want to see a story and be entertained when going to the movies, and if it feels like the movie is just telling you what to think, that's didactic in a bad way."
"When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors. Didactic is often used in a negative way. If you heard that a movie is overly didactic, that's probably not good. Most people want to see a story and be entertained when going to the movies, and if it feels like the movie is just telling you what to think, that's didactic in a bad way."
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And as long as we are teaching:
"When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors. Didactic is often used in a negative way. If you heard that a movie is overly didactic, that's probably not good. Most people want to see a story and be entertained when going to the movies, and if it feels like the movie is just telling you what to think, that's didactic in a bad way."
"When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors. Didactic is often used in a negative way. If you heard that a movie is overly didactic, that's probably not good. Most people want to see a story and be entertained when going to the movies, and if it feels like the movie is just telling you what to think, that's didactic in a bad way."
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Brake’s, you mean.
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Yesterday, I breaked too hard causing me to crash into a tree and braking my helmut.
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I honestly never understood anyone who capitalizes every word in every sentence. I'm not talking about all caps, But Text That Looks Like This. I mean, that would be so much work when typing it'd be a total PITA. Yet some people still do it for some reason. Must be a sign of a diseased mind.
And while we're giving proper English instruction here, can we please adhere to the rule of using "who" or "whom" when referring to people and "that" when referring to objects? I don't know why but it's a pet peeve of mind when I read something like "the guy that lives down the street."
And while we're giving proper English instruction here, can we please adhere to the rule of using "who" or "whom" when referring to people and "that" when referring to objects? I don't know why but it's a pet peeve of mind when I read something like "the guy that lives down the street."
07-17-21, 07:48 PM
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I honestly never understood anyone who capitalizes every word in every sentence. I'm not talking about all caps, But Text That Looks Like This. I mean, that would be so much work when typing it'd be a total PITA. Yet some people still do it for some reason. Must be a sign of a diseased mind.
Now this mixed case business where everything is aLl rAndOmlY cAPitlIZed LikE thIs drives me nuts though.
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07-17-21, 07:49 PM
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Titles are a different story, such as book and movie titles. The rule is the first and last words and all important words in the title should be capitalized (not it, the, and, for, etc). I think email subject lines and post titles don't need to follow this, but it won't drive me crazy if they are. But I'm talking about someone typing an entire paragraph where the first letter of every word is capitalized. It's just strange and totally not needed.
07-17-21, 08:19 PM
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07-17-21, 08:51 PM
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Titles are a different story, such as book and movie titles. The rule is the first and last words and all important words in the title should be capitalized (not it, the, and, for, etc). I think email subject lines and post titles don't need to follow this, but it won't drive me crazy if they are. But I'm talking about someone typing an entire paragraph where the first letter of every word is capitalized. It's just strange and totally not needed.
07-17-21, 09:54 PM
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There's a language where all nouns are capitalized. German.
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07-18-21, 12:59 AM
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I suspect the practice of Capitalizing the First Letter of Each Word in a Sentence comes from old school newspaper readers and cranks who wrote letters to the editor. Most newspapers I wrote for observed the fairly standard AP and UPI styles that called for capitalizing the first letters in most words for headlines... as well as that peculiar practice of referring to the deceased as if he/she were currently in the process of dying just as you're reading the article about his/her death. As long as I was in journalism there were still traditions I didn't quite understand.
So for the diehard cranks, who've long since infested social media, the practice of Headline Capitalization Makes Their Pronouncements Seem Very Important.
bUt MiXEd caPiTAliZAtiOn iS JUsT fOr THe sAKe oF iRoNY
So for the diehard cranks, who've long since infested social media, the practice of Headline Capitalization Makes Their Pronouncements Seem Very Important.
bUt MiXEd caPiTAliZAtiOn iS JUsT fOr THe sAKe oF iRoNY
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And while we're giving proper English instruction here, can we please adhere to the rule of using "who" or "whom" when referring to people and "that" when referring to objects? I don't know why but it's a pet peeve of mind when I read something like "the guy that lives down the street."
Sometimes, I wonder if some of these things are regional because "the guy that" has never sounded the least bit odd to me.
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