nostromo wrote:
Meow101 wrote:
I've developed an alternate strategy. I'm a language geek and trolls are often dumber than a box of rocks and make numerous grammatical errors. I start to respond to their every post/comment by correcting their grammar and spelling, not the content of their posts. They could be calling me whatever, and all I do is tell them it's "grammAr, not grammEr" or "damn, you're too stupid to conjugate 'to be' correctly in the past tense, why should I put any credibility in anything YOU say?" It gets rid of them posthaste...LOL.
Thats is a really good strategy you've developed, I can see how that would get to a troll; your not rising to their provocation (no satisfaction there for them), then pointing out and criticizing their actual concrete errors (inadequacies to their minds).
Nice
Oh now I'm paranoid about my grammar.
No need...I only do this to trolls. Even though I *notice* every freaking typo, grammatical error, and spelling error (oh, the wonders of having AS...argh), I only act on it when I choose to.
And, YES, I ended a sentence with a preposition, in defiance of my old English teachers!
~Kate
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Ce e amorul? E un lung
Prilej pentru durere,
Caci mii de lacrimi nu-i ajung
Si tot mai multe cere.
--Mihai Eminescu