Is it proper

[rayheinrich]

Hey, Leanne, I just did it, yeah, mudlinggle flemblancing to klinggacle.

[Leanne]

Is that flemblancing a gerund or a present participle? :p

[billy]

one of my pet peeves is the use of a period not followed by a cap. i can accept no grammar, but feel if you use it. use it properly, or at least try to.

Oh, the irony

effin scandiferous i meant in a poem

[grannyjill]

I did check 'miniscule' after my 'error' was pointed out and my little gummings said it was correct, but then it also said 'minuscule' was correct, too. Over to my huge International deluxe encyclopedic edition of Webster's Dictionary of the English Language and it said 'minuscule' was correct and told me about 'minuscule' and 'majuscule' and so I bowed to its superior knowledge.

Leanne - your insight into 'wrong' and 'wrongly' has been like gold-dust to me. I have always had to change sentences to avoid choosing between 'wrong/wrongly' - My instinct plumped for 'wrongly' (since I would never write/say - spelled incorrect.) but everyone else seemed happy with 'wrong'...hip, hip, hurray (I am made happy by such small things)

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Hey, Leanne, I just did it, yeah, mudlinggle flemblancing to klinggacle.

Hi, Ray (pleased to meetcha)

I must say I can't quite get the meaning of your nonsense sentence (yes, I know that sounds insane)
But, I reckon it should be 'Mudlinggle flemblancing is klinggacle' or 'Mudlinggle flemblancing makes you klinggacle'
what do you say?
bye, grannyjill

[Leanne]

That depends on the context of klinggacle. It might be a place, you know, like school or church

[rayheinrich]

Is that flemblancing a gerund or a present participle? :p

Currently it's a prescient participle that, being sentient, knows
it will become a future gerund.

[Leanne]

Dear abu, I apologise, I accidentally deleted your most correct post which corrected my gerund supposition -- were I to correct Billy's "spelling", there would be gerundificity involved, however as "spelling mistakes" is the noun in toto, "spelling" in this case is nought but adjectival

[Leanne]

Currently it's a prescient participle that, being sentient, knows
it will become a future gerund.

I do love prescience in a participle, provided it does not dangle.

[rayheinrich]

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I do love prescience in a participle, provided it does not dangle.
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All your participles indicate feminine? Alas, yet more gender chauvinism:
what's the world coming to...

[grannyjill]

That depends on the context of klinggacle. It might be a place, you know, like school or church

Of course, why didn't I see that in the first place.

'And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,/ And shining morning face, CREEPING LIKE SNAIL, UNWILLINGLY TO SCHOOL

(what a lovely image - shining morning face!)

[abu nuwas]

Dear abu, I apologise, I accidentally deleted your most correct post which corrected my gerund supposition -- were I to correct Billy's "spelling", there would be gerundificity involved, however as "spelling mistakes" is the noun in toto, "spelling" in this case is nought but adjectival

Deleted! In error! A likely - - - Am trying to make up my minf which of the emoticons comes nearest to "expostulates" "chokes on corn-flakes" or "has apoplectic fit". I think we are heading to-ward gerundicide....

[billy]

we can bring back deleted posts, but not if they've been erased from the page first . gerundicity states that an immovable gerund and an unstoppable gerund should they collide will be ing inging all over the place before any given period.

[rayheinrich]

grannyjill said: I must say I can't quite get the meaning of your nonsense sentence
(yes, I know that sounds insane) But, I reckon it should be 'Mudlinggle flemblancing is klinggacle'
or 'Mudlinggle flemblancing makes you klinggacle' what do you say?"

Leanne suggested I stop lurking, so this was announcing to her I had.
Translation:
"mudlinggle flemblancing to klinggacle" =
"dummied dirty disarray dodderingly developing to disturbing drumming drivel"

[Leanne]

Oh, I do love a dirty disarray

Does one require a particular kind of clothing to flembance?

[rayheinrich]

Oh, I do love a dirty disarray

Does one require a particular kind of clothing to flembance?

It's "flemblance" not "flembance". (Take a moment to use your spell-checker next time.)

No particular type of clothing is required, but some non-slip boat shoes (Sperry Topsiders, etc.) couldn't hurt: gets a bit slippery out there.

[Leanne]

Oh, slorry :p

[rayheinrich]

Oh, slorry :p

Thaz zo-k juz zee iz dozen't zappen zagin.

[Wildcard]

I saw that this thread was up to thirty-six posts and thought to myself, 'Self . . . well isn't that nice. A serious discussion is finally seeing the kind of post counts that the insane Sewer topics get.'

Then I saw the horrible Sewer-like activity going on here! You all should be ashamed of yourself :p

Hi rayheinrich what's up with the Courier font? It makes my eyes hurt

[Leanne]

Ahem, excuse me, we're having a serious discussion about the mechanisms of grammar, thank you very much! To bring it back to topic, correct use of grammar gives readers clues/keys for meaning even if they aren't familiar with a particular word or phrase.

Incorrect: grammar is useless :p

[Wildcard]

Call it what you will. I might assume power while Billy is away a moderate this thread right on into the Sewer (I know I don't have the admin permissions, but sj does :p)