tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post8511626474321289438..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: Book Review - The Best of Roosh Vol. 1Captain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-59245071293981637312013-05-30T20:29:20.202-07:002013-05-30T20:29:20.202-07:00Never once met a grammer nazi that had anything of...Never once met a grammer nazi that had anything of substance to say, or a single original thought. That includes the women who commented prior to me here. <br /><br />My ideas, when executed, have created well over a hundred jobs and fed dozens of families, including my admin, who is paid to correct my grammer. Far heir from me to take the food out of the mouth of a single moms child.Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01596899792832175046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-21424632164237820482013-05-30T00:20:59.966-07:002013-05-30T00:20:59.966-07:00Typos are small details. Easily caught by MS-Word...Typos are small details. Easily caught by MS-Word and corrected. If you can't take that two seconds of trouble to run a spellcheck, or five minutes of study to understand the difference between there/their/they're then it's quite likely the rest of your ideas are similarly disordered. It's like a man who doesn't shower - what is the rest of his life like? Are you going to want to go to his house and eat off his grill, with his plates and utensils?Harlandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-56299962575692280012013-05-29T22:59:49.370-07:002013-05-29T22:59:49.370-07:00I love ya, Cap, but your thoughts on punctuation a...I love ya, Cap, but your thoughts on punctuation and grammar are ridiculous. Grammar clarifies ideas. Punctuation, comma usage, etc. exist for a reason. Grammatical and mechanical errors lead to miscommunication between author and reader.<br /><br />Grammar is not some feminist conspiracy. In my experience, most academics are atrocious writers in part because they have poor grammar. Thidwicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-6288408198013326192013-05-29T18:05:29.178-07:002013-05-29T18:05:29.178-07:00@sanbaw
I second this emotion.
Though, I, like o...@sanbaw<br /><br />I second this emotion.<br /><br />Though, I, like others, see the merit in ignoring the odd punctuation and capitalization error from time to time, it unnerves me to no end when there's a lack of clarity -- particularly when it comes to defining terms and writing in a style that's practical and like technical writing (almost). Defining terms is critical to argumentation, something quite lost on "feeling" feminazis. We're not talking poetry here, or "creative writing."<br /><br />I remember one of Roosh's fairly recent posts where he talked about how some of his readers were demanding more bulleted lists and and shorter, crisper prose. Made sense as most of the readers were looking for the quick takeaway. Net readers, most of whom are the younger crowd and who grew up with webpages and blog posts, were of course going to demand this at some point.<br /><br />Also, on an unrelated note, there are some men out there who discovered more worthwhile pursuits at an early age and tried to indulge in those despite great difficulties. In today's age, it's more difficult because of wage slavery. adiaforonhttp://adiaforon.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-67456330268000783352013-05-29T03:31:08.190-07:002013-05-29T03:31:08.190-07:00Regarding the grammar/typo thing... I can understa...Regarding the grammar/typo thing... I can understand not being worked up over minor errors, as long as they don't actually reduce the comprehensibility of the writing. That's especially true in non-technical writing. But, you seriously think more typos and grammar errors in written works is a <i>good</i> thing? Come on, man, that's going way too far the other way.<br /><br />I couldn't care less about dangling participles or missing capitalization here and there. Many conventions are idiotic, such as never using "I" in a paper, and should be ignored when appropriate. Slavishly adhering to writing conventions that we were all taught in high school often results in stilted or laborious writing that is painful to read.<br /><br />But, many of the core grammar and punctuation rules of English really aren't understood particularly well by the common man, and violating those rules can make otherwise brilliant writing (in terms of the ideas expressed) incomprehensible to a reader who DOES understand the rules. I read a lot of first drafts and unproofed work, and I can tell you that few things jerk me to a halt like having to stop and decipher what the author actually means (because, for example, he misused or forgot punctuation and it's therefore unclear which clauses are related). In an extreme example, an imperfectly written thesis statement or topic sentence can change the tone of several paragraphs or a whole article/paper. A simple dropped semicolon can radically alter what the reader gets out of the piece of writing.<br /><br />I find myself saying "words mean things" to people on a regular basis, to remind people that words have meanings independent of what the speaker or author <i>thinks</i> they mean (I run into this at work all the time. I am a geologist and for fuck's sake, scientific terms mean what they mean, and subtle misunderstandings can wreak havoc on our data quality). Well, punctuation and grammar work the same way. It's up to the author (with the assistance of the editor) to effectively communicate ideas via the written word, and that is accomplished with proper usage of the English language. The quality of writing in America is fairly atrocious as it is, and encouraging ignorance of basic rules as some sort of rebellion against the feminized editors (or whatever your issue with them is) is quite the bad idea.<br /><br />Perhaps I don't understand exactly what you mean when you say you think typos and errors are good to see in writing. I can see the point about not wanting to waste time worrying over minor errors when that time could be better spent coming up with new ideas or refining them, but after all... that's what we pay editors <i>for</i>, so writers don't have to do all that nitpicky editing that most of them aren't good at anyway. The fact remains, however, that it is fundamentally up to the <i>writer</i> to present his ideas clearly, and deciding not to worry about grammar or typos runs very counter to that goal: editors are not psychic, and a befuddled reader can't even call up the author to ask for clarification the way an editor can. So, maybe you could clarify your position on this matter?<br /><br /><i>Cue some jackass who is going to nitpick my own grammar or any typos I made in this unproofed comment.</i>sambawnoreply@blogger.com