Archive for March, 2007

They’re, Their, and There: Solving the age-old mystery!

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

The English language isn’t exactly the easiest to understand- there are more rules, clauses, modifiers, and exceptions than any other popular language. So, it’s no surprise that many people have a problem with duplicate words (words that sound the same but don’t mean the same thing).
There, their, and they’re are prime examples. All three of [...]

Forum Etiquette: How to avoid being banned.

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

I’m writing this article because the internet community is degrading, and quite dramatically so. Every day it seems that the mechanics for proper spelling and grammar are slowly being forgotten, and people are content to blurt out words and phrases that have no literal, or even percieved, meaning. This trend, which I will call “e-tardedness”, [...]