 HiEv
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
 384 Posts
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:23:14 PM
@OldOllie: Just because you don't agree with my point, doesn't mean I didn't have a point. Obviously I *did* have a point, because you proceeded to argue against said point.
Furthermore, this is *not* an example of "the complete failure of crappy government schools", because there is no, zero, zip, zilch evidence that this person went to a public school.
Even if that was the case, anecdotes do not equal evidence. Good evidence requires many points of unbiased data and something more or less equivalent to compare it to.
To make this simple for you: this post doesn't prove jack about public or private education. Your attempts to claim that it does only demonstrate how ignorant that *you* are about the rules of evidence and how much you need to constantly bring up your pet peeves even when it's irrelevant to the joke.
You aren't proving anything, you're just being annoying. |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8764 Posts
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Monday, June 11, 2012 11:42:51 PM
Way to miss my point that your one shoe doesn't fit *everything*.
HiEv, I didn't miss your point; you didn't have one.
I don't make all my posts about the complete failure of government attempting to do crap it has no business doing. This just happens to be an example of it -- crappy government schools that teach kids how to feel good about themselves even if they don't know how to wipe their asses in the dark.
Now, I will grant you that the finest education in the world won't fix a low IQ. You, for instance, could go through a Harvard Ph.D. program, and you'd still come out a drooling, fapping idiot.
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 Anshin
Female, 18-29, Southern US
119 Posts
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Monday, June 11, 2012 11:01:44 PM
@Kaleotera
That was the first comment. Or were you joking? |
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HiEv
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
384 Posts
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Monday, June 11, 2012 10:22:41 PM
@OldOllie: "If the shoe fits..."
Way to miss my point that your one shoe doesn't fit *everything*. |
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 greenbasterd
Male, 18-29, Canada
2132 Posts
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Monday, June 11, 2012 9:41:43 AM
"Eastern US
466 Posts Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:46:33 PM
Jeez, I'm surprised no one has pointed out the "a intelligent" as opposed to "an intelligent".
Slackers. =)"
first comment down... slacker |
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 TruTenrMan
Male, 30-39, Southern US
2178 Posts
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Monday, June 11, 2012 6:00:39 AM
randomxnp beat me to it. The hyphen is needed for well-educated, because it is an adjective. |
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 gothmo
Female, 18-29, Western US
1328 Posts
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Monday, June 11, 2012 12:55:10 AM
@Kaleto
I can't tell if you're joking or not >> but I love people who do this. The people who get corrected deserve it most of the time lol. |
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 Kaleotera
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
474 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:46:34 PM
Jeez, I'm surprised no one has pointed out the "a intelligent" as opposed to "an intelligent".
Slackers. =) |
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OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8764 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:39:31 PM
The hyphen is perfectly correct for a compound adjective.
Right, unless it involves a word ending in "ly."
"This is an example of an incorrectly-hyphenated modifier."
References:
http://tinyurl.com/7f3pwza
http://tinyurl.com/7stuet5
http://tinyurl.com/7uct6bf |
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 randomxnp
Male, 30-39, Europe
779 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:24:28 PM
The hyphen is perfectly correct for a compound adjective. Don't correct someone else unless you know what you are talking about. |
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 lauriloo
Female, 40-49, Midwest US
792 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:20:44 PM
I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who leave out the hyphen in descriptive word combos like "well-educated". If her sentence was "I'm well educated" there would be no hyphen. But she essentially said "I'm a well-educated woman" so a hyphen is necessary because the two words TOGETHER modify "woman". The hyphen joins them together. |
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 jtrebowski
Male, 40-49, Southern US
3057 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:01:03 AM
OldOllie: "Let me guess, government school?"
No. She's a Tea Party Republican. Now which one is OldOllie? |
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OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8764 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:41:46 AM
@OswegoWriter: You do NOT hyphenate a unit modifier when the adverb ends in "ly."
Let me guess, government school? |
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OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8764 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:39:34 AM
Seriously, do you really have to make every post about your hatred for anything supported by the government?
If the shoe fits... |
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 Buiadh
Male, 18-29, Europe
6650 Posts
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Sunday, June 10, 2012 1:23:20 AM
Burn. |
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HiEv
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
384 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 11:45:45 PM
@OldOllie: Right, because no egotistical idiots EVER came out of private schools. (eyeroll)
Seriously, do you really have to make every post about your hatred for anything supported by the government? |
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broizfam
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
702 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 10:35:33 PM
Please stop saying "sammich"! It's called "lasagna". |
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OswegoWriter
Male, 30-39, Canada
26 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 10:29:56 PM
adverb-verb combinations used as a singular adjective should be hypenated when used before the subject; i.e.: well-hung commenter, brightly-painted house, etc. |
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 Viking864
Male, 40-49, Southern US
817 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 9:55:51 PM
...and the stupid shall be punished. |
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OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8764 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 8:18:13 PM
I wonder where she got that over-inflated sense of self-esteem. Where, oh, where...oh, I don't know...let me see...could it have been...GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS?
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 8BitHero
Male, 18-29, Europe
5420 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:43:47 PM
Facebook users... |
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 biogeek
Female, 30-39, Eastern US
57 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:35:33 PM
@smagvoy1 "They hyphen really should be used, though"
The not they |
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drips
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
775 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:26:57 PM
I think hyphen is ok to use. My feeling is that in that case it's more of a stylistic choice. |
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 freddyferret
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
9843 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:09:53 PM
She's the pride of the projects. |
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 nubblins
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
1580 Posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:04:33 PM
@fausts
Sure they're related, but intelligence doesn't equate to being perfect at grammar, either. One could be awful at grammar but exceptional at mathematics and still be intelligent. Likewise, this person could be quite apt at speaking eloquently but poor at writing. Plus, being grammar police just makes you look like an ass. :P |
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