Jul. 19th, 2005

a favor

Jul. 19th, 2005 08:17 am
gmonkey42: cartoon Sephiroth (pirate icon)
Could a few of you do me a favor and try to post in my guestbook then tell me whether it worked? I think I'm having some problems with it but it works fine when I try to post in it from here. Thanks!

ETA: Oh, it would help if I gave you a link, eh? my guestbook

well, shit

Jul. 19th, 2005 08:41 am
gmonkey42: cartoon Sephiroth (snape_fire)
I was looking at the newly-discovered (to me) and awesome [livejournal.com profile] potterpuffs and I found this:
Snape's Worst Memory.

There is no way in a million years (with a million GMonkeys and a million copies of Photoshop) that I'll top that for [livejournal.com profile] hp_art_project.

Haha.

Nah, mine will be more serious. But that [livejournal.com profile] potterpuffs is wicked awesome.
gmonkey42: cartoon Sephiroth (unhappy Snape)
[livejournal.com profile] potterpuffs is my new favorite thing in the whole world.
gmonkey42: cartoon Sephiroth (unhappy Snape)
The following grammar rant is free of spoilers.

I was reading Something Awful. Lowtax is fairly conservative but he's funny so I'll forgive him. I will not forgive him, however, for using "infer" where he should have used "imply." I've seen that crop up a lot lately. It's my new pet peeve now that people have stopped abusing "literally" so much. I don't have a catchy song like Strong Bad* but this is a good general rule:

If you're doing the talking, you're implying.
If you're doing the listening/reading, you're inferring.

Here's an example:
"That's a very nice wand you have there, Sevvie," said Divinity Raven Celestia.
Divinity was implying something inappropriate.
Snape inferred from her name that she was a Mary Sue and turned her into a radish.

Misused words make Snapeypuff sad.

Yeah, dictionary.com includes the word "imply" in the 4th definition of "infer" but "imply" is not a synonym of "infer" and I don't like it when people use it as such.


* I can't remember which Strong Bad E-mail it was so I'll just have to give you the lyrics:
Oh! If you want it to be possessive, it's just "i-t-s"
but if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "i-t-apostrophe-s!"
Scalawag!

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