1. Standard memberMarinkatomb
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    This game is just exquisite!! Yu Yangyi is really one to watch! πŸ˜€

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    Your title is…er…mistaken.

    er |Ι™, Ι™r|
    exclam.
    expressing hesitation: “Would you like some tea?” “Er … yes … thank you.”

    err |Ι™r, er|
    verb [ no obj. ] formal
    be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake: the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible.
  3. Standard memberBigDogg
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    31 Dec '14 22:17
    Originally posted by HikaruShindo
    Your title is…er…mistaken.

    er |Ι™, Ι™r|
    exclam.
    expressing hesitation: “Would you like some tea?” “Er … yes … thank you.”

    err |Ι™r, er|
    verb [ no obj. ] formal
    be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake: the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible.
    Your new year's resolution : stop being a Grammar Nazi. πŸ˜›
  4. SubscriberPaul Leggett
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    01 Jan '15 00:03
    Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
    Your new year's resolution : stop being a Grammar Nazi. πŸ˜›
    Grammatik nationalsozialistischen auf Deutsch.
  5. Standard memberMarinkatomb
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    01 Jan '15 10:29
    Originally posted by HikaruShindo
    Your title is…er…mistaken.

    er |Ι™, Ι™r|
    exclam.
    expressing hesitation: “Would you like some tea?” “Er … yes … thank you.”

    err |Ι™r, er|
    verb [ no obj. ] formal
    be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake: the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible.
    Thaum i woke li no thaum sawv ntxov, kuv twb tsis txawm hnov ​​ntawm Hmong! Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab. πŸ˜€
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    01 Jan '15 14:52
    Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
    Your new year's resolution : stop being a Grammar Nazi. πŸ˜›
    It's not a grammar nazi, it's a spelling nitpick. It's also wrong, since interjections are traditionally spelled quite variably: "er" for the verb would be incorrect, but "err" for the interjection is acceptable.
    "Sacrifice" is still spelled incorrectly, though. And if you do want to be a grammar pedant, and as punctuation is part of grammar, you could point out that double question marks are only acceptable inside an annotation.

    Richard, pedant-in-chief
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    01 Jan '15 15:10
    I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out, SB.

    Marinkatomb, I didn't say this before, but the game you posted is great.
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    01 Jan '15 15:19
    Originally posted by Paul Leggett
    Grammatik nationalsozialistischen auf Deutsch.
    Auf Kauderdeutsch. Grammatik-Nazionalsozialist auf etwas(!) besseres Deutsch. Obwohl a) ein richtiger Deutche das wahrscheinlich als Grammatik-Nazi abkürzen würde und b) die meisten Deutschen noch zu gut wissen was ein Nazi wirklich ist um die name so achtungstlos herumzuschmeißen. (Darum auch daß die meisten da PEGIDA nicht so richtig mögen.)

    Richard, wenn's sein muß auch Pedantiker-aufs-Deutsch
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    01 Jan '15 15:24
    Originally posted by HikaruShindo
    Marinkatomb, I didn't say this before, but the game you posted is great.
    Yes, indeed. There's still quite a lot of life left in that "boring" old closed Spanish.
    Though... is it really a sacrifice if you already know you're going to get the other queen in return a few moves later? (Sacrifice or not, it's still a pretty move, of course.)
  10. Standard memberDeepThought
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    06 Jan '15 22:26
    Originally posted by Shallow Blue
    Auf Kauderdeutsch. Grammatik-Nazionalsozialist auf etwas(!) besseres Deutsch. Obwohl a) ein richtiger Deutche das wahrscheinlich als Grammatik-Nazi abkürzen würde und b) die meisten Deutschen noch zu gut wissen was ein Nazi wirklich ist um die name so achtungstlos herumzuschmeißen. (Darum auch daß die meisten da PEGIDA nicht so richtig mögen.)

    Richard, wenn's sein muß auch Pedantiker-aufs-Deutsch
    Und ein echte Deutsche würde sich nicht ein richtiger Deutche nennen, unless he thought he was right.
  11. SubscriberPaul Leggett
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    06 Jan '15 23:39
    Originally posted by DeepThought
    Und ein echte Deutsche würde sich nicht ein richtiger Deutche nennen, unless he thought he was right.
    Gut gesagt.
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    07 Jan '15 20:19
    Originally posted by DeepThought
    Und ein echte Deutsche würde sich nicht ein richtiger Deutche nennen, unless he thought he was right.
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