Author Topic: Boston Bombing - Explosion at the Boston Marathon Finish Line (Read 383127 times)

Radical Plato · « **Reply #525 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:06:12 AM »

Quote from: tu_holmes on April 16, 2013, 07:55:08 AM

Not true... The "and" is connecting "you and more like you". Just because there are descriptors doesn't change the nouns in the sentence.

Serial Commas are used before the word 'and', when three or more items are in a series.

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #526 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:07:02 AM »

Plane brought back to gate at Logan Airport

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Posted: Apr 16, 2013 8:25 AM EDTUpdated: Apr 16, 2013 8:26 AM EDT

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) – Sources told FOX 25 there was an American Airlines flight that was headed to Chicago. There were two men on that plane – not sitting next to each other – and speaking Arabic.

There were some concerned marathoners on the flight so the plane was brought back to the gate and the two men were escorted off the plane.

No other details were immediately available.

Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/21988916/2013/04/16/plane-brought-back-to-gate-at-logan-airport#ixzz2QdgrNUbT

tu_holmes · « **Reply #527 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:08:09 AM »

Quote from: E-Kul on April 16, 2013, 08:06:12 AM

Serial Commas are used before the word 'and', when three or more items are in a series.

Yes, but he had only two items... "you and others like you"

Those are the items in the series.

There are not 3 or more.

Are you looking these things up online as you are going along? It seems your grasp of English grammar is lacking.

Archer77 · « **Reply #528 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:09:37 AM »

Quote from: E-Kul on April 16, 2013, 08:06:12 AM

Serial Commas are used when three or more items are in a series.

I think you should focus less on grammar and more on defending your position. I don't care about you're or your. Seems like you started griping about grammar when you didn't have anything else to add to the conversation.

Bad Boy Dazza · « **Reply #529 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:11:17 AM »

Radical Plato · « **Reply #530 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:12:30 AM »

Quote from: tu_holmes on April 16, 2013, 08:08:09 AM

Yes, but he had only two items... "you and others like you"

Those are the items in the series.

There are not 3 or more.

Are you looking these things up online as you are going along? It seems your grasp of English grammar is lacking.

I'm glad you, and others like you, don't live here. The 'don't live here' is the third item in the series. A Serial comma is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and, or, or nor) in a series of three or more terms. For example, a list of three countries might be punctuated either as "Portugal, Spain, and France". I don't know exactly why you don't seem to understand this, perhaps you are just making it up as you go along.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #531 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:17:01 AM »

Quote from: E-Kul on April 16, 2013, 08:12:30 AM

I'm glad you, and others like you, don't live here. The 'don't live here' is the third item in the series. Serial commas are used when a series of three or more terms. For example, a list of three countries might be punctuated either as "Portugal, Spain, and France". I don't know exactly why you don't seem to understand this, perhaps you are just making it up as you go along.

No... Not at all.

The subjects are "you and others like you."

Don't live here is not an item in the series, it is an indirect object in the sentence, not a direct noun.

Keep at it.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #532 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:20:30 AM »

Tu with the precision strike. You oughta write the dialogue for Mass Effect my friend!

Radical Plato · « **Reply #533 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:20:47 AM »

Quote from: tu_holmes on April 16, 2013, 08:17:01 AM

No... Not at all.

The subjects are "you and others like you."

Don't live here is not an item in the series, it is an indirect object in the sentence, not a direct noun.

Keep at it.

I knew you were just making it up as you went along. LOL @ indirect object,

"I fucked your Mum, then your sister, and then I fucked your Mum again". Fucking your Mum for the second time is not an 'indirect object', (whatever the fuck that is), it's the third term in a series.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #534 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:23:47 AM »

Quote from: E-Kul on April 16, 2013, 08:20:47 AM

I knew you were just making it up as you went along. LOL @ indirect object

That's what it is.

But it's cool, I have no reason to continue this conversation with you because you refuse to admit your lack of knowledge.

Radical Plato · « **Reply #535 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:27:04 AM »

Quote from: tu_holmes on April 16, 2013, 08:23:47 AM

That's what it is.

But it's cool, I have no reason to continue this conversation with you because you refuse to admit your lack of knowledge.

Perhaps you should research Serial Commas, their is disagreement about when and if they should be used. I find without them, reading longer sentences expressing multiple concepts become illegible.

240 is Back · « **Reply #536 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:27:24 AM »

Via Drudge:

Police have issued an alert for a rental van that may have tried to gain access to the finish line area and for a man in dark clothing and a hood seen leaving the scene shortly before the blast, reported NBC. Surveillance video shows a hooded figure carrying two backpacks at about that time.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #537 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:30:01 AM »

Quote from: E-Kul on April 16, 2013, 08:27:04 AM

Perhaps you should research Serial Commas, their is disagreement about when and if they should be used. I find without them, reading longer sentences expressing multiple concepts become illegible.

"there" is disagreement.

"their" is possessive... wrong word.

Adonis' sentence was not so long as requiring extra commas for ease of reading. Had you said, "I wish you had used a comma to aid in my reading.", I would have gone along with it.

Instead, you immediately went to how his grammar was wrong, when it was not.

TigerStripes · « **Reply #538 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:31:48 AM »

I'm glad I live in the woods out in the middle of nowhere.

Nobody is gonna plant a bomb in my outhouse. I just drop my bombs in there.

Coach is Back! · « **Reply #539 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:32:48 AM »

Quote from: NordicNerd on April 16, 2013, 06:24:33 AM

This was a right-wing American, probably a local...

NN

It always ceases to amaze me just how many dumbshits we have on this site.

Bad Boy Dazza · « **Reply #540 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:33:31 AM »

Quote from: Stark on April 16, 2013, 05:20:38 AM

Who ever is responsible for the bombs in Boston what a bunch of fucking looses they manage to detonate 2 bombs in a crowded are and kill 3 people.
When it comes to wfficuent killing these people have a lot to learn fucking amateurs

Not enough gore for you?

Tito24 · « **Reply #541 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:35:24 AM »

TigerStripes · « **Reply #542 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:37:22 AM »

I read 140 injuries.

Lots of people got very fucked up.

And if they want to induce terror, blowing off prose legs will cause that terror.

Hopefully the REAL bomber is caught and tortured. Hopefully they won't just blame it on some random shmuck like they did with the JFK assassination.

Radical Plato · « **Reply #543 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:40:08 AM »

Quote from: tu_holmes on April 16, 2013, 08:30:01 AM

"there" is disagreement.

"their" is possessive... wrong word.

Adonis' sentence was not so long as requiring extra commas for ease of reading. Had you said, "I wish you had used a comma to aid in my reading.", I would have gone along with it.

Instead, you immediately went to how his grammar was wrong, when it was not.

I`m glad you don`t live here and that more like you don`t live here either. <--- The whole sentence structure didn't make sense. The words 'that more' should have been replaced with the word 'others'. There should have been a comma after "I`m glad you don`t live here". When I read it straight through as a complete sentence, it didn't make sense. It would have been far simpler to write "I am glad people like you don't live here"

tu_holmes · « **Reply #544 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:41:18 AM »

Quote from: E-Kul on April 16, 2013, 08:40:08 AM

I`m glad you don`t live here and that more like you don`t live here either. <--- The whole sentence structure didn't make sense. The words 'that more' should have been replaced with the word 'others'. There should have been a comma after "I`m glad you don`t live here". When I read it straight through as a complete sentence, it didn't make sense.

The sentence isn't how YOU would have written it, but it is grammatically correct. No comma required.

I read it just fine.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #545 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:42:12 AM »

TigerStripes · « **Reply #546 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:46:00 AM »

Don't complain about my grammar.

I'm typing on a tiny screen with one hand and jacking off with the other.

This is gb, this ain't no advanced English class at Yale.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #547 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:47:28 AM »

Quote from: TigerStripes on April 16, 2013, 08:46:00 AM

Don't complain about my grammar.

I'm typing on a tiny screen with one hand and jacking off with the other.

This is gb, this ain't no advanced English class at Yale.

I wouldn't say anything about anyone's grammar if they didn't start up on the grammar of my friend. Simple as that.

Kwon_2 · « **Reply #548 on:** April 16, 2013, 08:47:42 AM »

Quote from: E-Kul on April 16, 2013, 07:01:26 AM

Big fucking deal, what are you so worried about if they have public cameras, are you worried your regular public masturbation and raping of young boys will be exposed. Personally, I couldn't give a fuck if someone is filming me when I'm out in public, I'm not planning on committing any crimes, and if shit goes down, the cameras provide evidence. You want privacy, jerk off in your bedroom.

I'm glad you don't live here and that more of you don't live here either, despicable scum.

Radical Plato · « **Reply #549 on:** April 16, 2013, 09:00:21 AM »

Quote from: The True Adonis on April 16, 2013, 08:42:12 AM

I wasn't saying YOU ARE Welcome, I was saying I'm Welcome. I was thanking myself in the third person. The thanks was to me from me, hence the use of the word 'YOUR'. Your is the possessive form of you, referring to something that a person has, something that belongs to the person in question. And because the third person and I are the same person, it doesn't make sense to say 'you are' as if their was indeed a real third person.