Well, if someone wants to eject me from the game for "riposte", good luck to the game! I know that's a word... Oh, and about hypens: Dr. Grammar FAQ I don't think that my mistake was incorrect punctuation. Received opinion seems to be that hyphenating words of this nature is left at the author's discretion.
Kind of my point. Let's not get nuts with the contest. Legitimate errors will be caught, typographical slips will get nailed also. Please don't turn this fun game into D&D.
Fair enough. Maybe I should fall on my sword over this one. I probably don't post often enough to really qualify for the game anyway.
No. No. NO. NO. NO. That is not what I was saying. Unless you don't want to play anymore you should stay in. Besides, we all want to get you with a real kill...
One last word from me (when will I SHUT UP?). I don't look at the board (much) on the weekend. Since I am now a second umpire (boy was that a mistake ) those posters that have not changed their signature by 8:00 A.M. CST Monday morning will be marked as DEAD on the updated list. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just really don't think it is fair for everyone else to post the proper signature and make themselves a target while others do not. Have a nice weekend... and keep your head down!
http://bbs.clutchcity.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=1303292#post1303292 want off-season http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entries/18/o0041800.html http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=offseason B
Damn it! I thought it mighta been too good to be true. Dude, just look at my signature. It says that I already messed up. Don't try and give youself credit for that "kill". I'm already out, so I'm spelling things my way now, wasn't checking my post for accuracy.
Uprising is out... http://bbs.clutchcity.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75605&perpage=40&pagenumber=2
I haven't read through all ten pages of this thread so I don't know if anyone's mentioned it: has anyone else seen the documentary "Spellbound"? It's about the National Spelling Bee and follows six kids in particular in their journeys from local school contests to the finals in DC. It was hysterical, heartbreaking, and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful all at once; easily one of the best movies I saw all last year.
heh...thats the same thing they nailed me on.....misuse of the posessive apostrophe.... oh well....so be it...I hated having to slow my typing down to make sure I didnt mispell anything anyway.
I haven't seen that movie, but I watched the last national spelling bee and it was very entertaining! Some kid named Samir ended up winning. It was really intense. I'm looking forward to the next one.
I used to do spelling bees when I was a kid. Never quite made it to Washington, though - came close one year, but cracked under the pressure and said something stupid. It all evens out, though - I had gotten that far in part due to several lucky guesses at my city spelling bee. Still, three years I won my school, and one year I won the city. That was fun. After a point, though, you don't know what to study. They give you these books of words that they might use, and you study them, but at the higher levels they could throw anything at you. These words start to become the kind that would never be used in normal conversation; no one has ever heard of them.
