Random thing you loathe right now.

I think the real problem, Sinkwater, is that you do understand the ellipses and what they mean. They really are out to get you...

I slept for 15 hours (not intentionally) to wake up feeling feverish and fatigued. So I came home from school to go back to bed and now I feel fine.

This is me playing the tiniest violin in the world for you. "Oh I'm at home in bed and not sick, poor me!"

airicc8 wrote:

I can't shake a sinus infection, and have "crusting" (to put it plainly) in my nose. I can't remove it or I'll get bloody noses, and it's super uncomfortable so I keep picking at it and getting bloody noses...the viscous circle of life!! haha

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I loathe the new layout out of some of the Gawker Media web pages.

I hate being angry, but I hate being ignored and having my suggestions shrugged off as if they were completely unimportant and stupid even more.

I also hate being unemployed for over three years, not being able to drive, being stuck in this place for weeks at a time, having little to no human contact outside my immediate family, and feeling like a complete and utter waste of space. Yay.

dhelor wrote:

I hate being angry, but I hate being ignored and having my suggestions shrugged off as if they were completely unimportant and stupid even more.

I also hate being unemployed for over three years, not being able to drive, being stuck in this place for weeks at a time, having little to no human contact outside my immediate family, and feeling like a complete and utter waste of space. Yay.

Shhhhh...

We're trying to have a conversation here...

I also think your avatar is awesome! Gir for the win!

Tigerbill wrote:

I loathe the new layout out of some of the Gawker Media web pages.

I generally loathe it whenever a website has such a major overhaul.

Fun fact: An ellipsis is not terminal punctuation; it can't end a sentence.

wordsmythe wrote:

Fun fact: An ellipsis is not terminal punctuation; it can't end a sentence.

Until now...

Who writes these rules& They seem completely arbitrary'

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Who writes these rules& They seem completely arbitrary'

Language gods who rule on high from their Mountain of Grammar. They give the rules of punctuation to prophets, etching them in precise fonts in stone tablets.

Norfair wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Who writes these rules& They seem completely arbitrary'

Language gods who rule on high from their Mountain of Grammar. They give the rules of punctuation to prophets, etching them in precise fonts in stone tablets.

Comic Sans?

Stengah wrote:
Norfair wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Who writes these rules& They seem completely arbitrary'

Language gods who rule on high from their Mountain of Grammar. They give the rules of punctuation to prophets, etching them in precise fonts in stone tablets.

Comic Sans?

Who am I to question the ways of the gods?

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com...

Now, on to the other use of ellipses that you frequently see in e-mail: the ellipsis that’s used to indicate a pause or a break in the writer's train of thought. Many people have written to me to say that they find this kind of use annoying, but a number of style guides say that ellipses can be used to indicate a pause or falter in dialog, the passage of time, an unfinished list, or that a speaker has trailed off in the middle of a sentence or left something unsaid (1, 2, 3, 4). For example, The Chicago Manual of Style states, “Ellipsis points suggest faltering or fragmented speech accompanied by confusion, insecurity, distress, or uncertainty.” The Manual contrasts ellipses with dashes, which it states should be reserved for more confident and decisive pauses.

So, it is allowable to use ellipses to indicate pauses or breaks in the writer's train of thought as you see so frequently done in e-mail, especially where a break is meant to feel uncertain. Nevertheless (and this is a BIG nevertheless) most people who use ellipses in e-mail overdo it—a lot.

I think this fits in how I at least think I use ellipses in forum posts. And I don't think I over do it, but that is up for debate.

Just sayin'....

Norfair wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Who writes these rules& They seem completely arbitrary'

Language gods who rule on high from their Mountain of Grammar. They give the rules of punctuation to prophets, etching them in Helvetica in stone tablets.

You know it to be true{

Stengah wrote:
Norfair wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Who writes these rules& They seem completely arbitrary'

Language gods who rule on high from their Mountain of Grammar. They give the rules of punctuation to prophets, etching them in precise fonts in stone tablets.

Comic Sans?

[font=Papyrus]Papyrus[/font]

Oily: I'm more mocking myself, participating in this forum quickly proved to me that how much I overuse those precious 3 dots......they are alll I dreamed about last night!!

airicc8 wrote:

Oily: I'm more mocking myself, participating in this forum quickly proved to me that how much I overuse those precious 3 dots......they are alll I dreamed about last night!!

That's... sad.

...on many different levels.

Just filled my wife's truck up with gas, only to see about 2 gallons pour out the bottom of the tank once I took the receipt out of the machine, so now I get to drop probably a sh*tton of money on a new gas tank.

My GPA at the school I left. Gods, I wish I could expunge that and only use the one I graduated from.

Running out of beer and being snowed in.

Guess it's time to switch to whiskey.

i38warhawk wrote:

Running out of beer and being snowed in.

Guess it's time to switch to whiskey scotch.

Rat Boy wrote:
Tigerbill wrote:

I loathe the new layout out of some of the Gawker Media web pages.

I generally loathe it whenever a website has such a major overhaul.

Seriously, WTF did they do to Io9? It's practically impossible to navigate now! Please tell me this never hits Gizmodo, Kotaku or Lifehacker. I might just be forced to go elsewhere for my completely inconsequential random web surfing.

The word "mindshare." Yuck.

Mind sharing why?

LiquidMantis wrote:

Mind sharing why?

Very clever

It's just one of those overused buzzwords that seems to be popping up too much in the video games podcasts I listen to.

Sinkwater wrote:
LiquidMantis wrote:

Mind sharing why?

Very clever

It's just one of those overused buzzwords that seems to be popping up too much in the video games podcasts I listen to.

The only mindsharing in video games I approve of are head crabs.