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    • PolkP
      Polk @Pavel
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      @Pavel Absolutely right. Assume the best, and you often get just that.

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      • GashlycrumbG
        Gashlycrumb @Snackness
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        @Snackness Naw, you hate typed out dialect. You’re allowed.

        "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
        – A. Bertram Chandler

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          GF @Cobalt
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          @Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:

          (At fifteen I was convinced only 100% strict “proper” English was correct. At fifteen I was an asshole.)

          Did you have a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos? I had a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos.

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          • RozR
            Roz @GF
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            @GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

            @Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:

            (At fifteen I was convinced only 100% strict “proper” English was correct. At fifteen I was an asshole.)

            Did you have a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos? I had a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos.

            I had a copy of the book, and my parents still make comments and jokes about my grammar strictness, in the way that parents do when they don’t know you’ve outgrown a part of your childhood because you now understand the classist and racist nature of strict grammar adherence wait where are you going I’m not done with explaining–

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              GF @Roz
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              @Roz Your wording of your post made me notice that no one in this thread has said “grammar Nazi” and that makes me very happy.

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              • RozR
                Roz @GF
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                @GF Yeah, I also grew out of that one years back.

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                • saoS
                  sao
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                  I doubt anyone who types out dialect is doing it because they intend to be annoying, they’re just succeeding at being annoying.

                  let it be a challenge to you

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                  • GashlycrumbG
                    Gashlycrumb
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                    When people type ‘viscous’ when they mean ‘vicious’ I find it interferes with my immersion.

                    "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                    – A. Bertram Chandler

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                      Roadspike @Gashlycrumb
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                      @Gashlycrumb But it’s much easier to immerse yourself in something viscous than something vicious.

                      Formerly known as Seraphim73 (he/him)

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                      • GashlycrumbG
                        Gashlycrumb @Roadspike
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                        @Roadspike This is the problem with the viscous attacks. I’m immersed, in the wrong way.

                        "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                        – A. Bertram Chandler

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                        • PavelP
                          Pavel @Gashlycrumb
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                          @Gashlycrumb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

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                            Corinthian @Pavel
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                            @Pavel So my wife told me about her worst day at work ever, when a young kid came into the ER with constipation, and the doc ordered a milk and molasses enema.

                            Apparently it was like that scene from Daddy Daycare. You know the one.

                            And yes, I created an account just to make this comment.

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                            • WuffW
                              Wuff @Corinthian
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                              @Corinthian

                              While this probably is meant for the RL peeves thread. I can only hope she was not the one that had to clean up.

                              daddy day care

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                              • farfallaF
                                farfalla @Pavel
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                                @Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                I will say that lots of what people are picking out as accents, like cannae and dinnae etc aren’t actually just accents, they’re elements of Scots. A language (or dialect, depending on your definition) all its own.

                                Agreed. But that kind of supports the point - we’re RPing in English. I neither speak nor understand written Scots. Just as no one should start writing all of their dialogue in Italian.

                                as previously stated, good day.

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                                  L. B. Heuschkel @farfalla
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                                  @farfalla People do look at me funny when my Danish character starts ranting to himself in Danish.

                                  But then, I don’t expect them to understand it and respond to it, either.

                                  Any pronouns. Come to Chincoteague. We have ponies. http://keys.aresmush.com

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                                    dvoraen @Gashlycrumb
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                                    @Gashlycrumb That person is such a rouge.

                                    Because every MU* char is a type of makeup rather than a rogue.

                                    (Since you brought up things that mess with immersion.)

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                                    • TributaryT
                                      Tributary @farfalla
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                                      @farfalla We have a word for this: Oirish.

                                      And it’s terrible in text, but you also get bad accents in voice acting, and my spouse and I use it for that as well.

                                      “What sort of accent is she supposed to be doing here?”
                                      “Uh, I think French? It’s Oirish-French.”

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                                      • CobaltC
                                        Cobalt @Corinthian
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                                        @Corinthian I just.

                                        Why?? Why would a doctor order that?

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                                        • PavelP
                                          Pavel @Cobalt
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                                          @Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                          @Corinthian I just.

                                          Why?? Why would a doctor order that?

                                          It’s an established and apparently efficacious treatment for constipation in children: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24182894/

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                                            Corinthian @Wuff
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                                            @Wuff Oh, she, the nurse, and even the doctor himself took place in cleaning it up. It was definitely, DEFINITELY not a one person job.

                                            The doctor would not normally ever participate in cleaning, but he felt really bad.

                                            @Pavel And yes, it apparently is extremely efficacious. It worked… ohhhh did it work. The doc was so proud of himself when he prescribed it, too, because none of the med staff had heard of such a thing. They call it an ‘M and M and enema’ jokingly and because of the quasi-alliteration.

                                            Anyway, yeah, didn’t mean to go all off topic. I just saw the mention of molasses and thought I’d share. I’m generous like that.

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