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DO NOT BELIEVE IT

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Eli Stan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#121 - 2016-06-26 19:16:37 UTC
Sustrai Aditua wrote:
Eli Stan wrote:
Sustrai Aditua wrote:
Linus Gorp wrote:
Sustrai Aditua wrote:
I BELIEVE! I BELIEVE!

When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
Mind if I ask, "Huh?"
Oh, by the way, "the literate" is plural. The literate are....
"A literate" is singular. A literate is....
When you correct someone's English do it properly.
I suspect it's shortened from "the literate person is..." as opposed to "the literate people are..." or "the literates are..." So singular instead of plural seems more correct to me. YMMV.
LOL, if we got to do English the way it "seems" then we'd all have passed with A+ . Fortunately for civilization,
such is not the case. Intention has nothing to do with it. What winds up in print is all there is. Take it from an editor.
Can you reference a source to support your claim it should be plural? Sorry, argument via authority doesn't cut it. Smile
Violet Hurst
Fedaya Recon
#122 - 2016-06-26 19:20:08 UTC
Eli Stan wrote:
Can you reference a source to support your claim it should be plural? Sorry, argument via authority doesn't cut it. Smile

...was about to ask for the same. "A good, a bad and an ugly" just doesn't sound right.
Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
#123 - 2016-06-26 21:32:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Linus Gorp
Eli Stan wrote:
Sustrai Aditua wrote:
Eli Stan wrote:
Sustrai Aditua wrote:
Linus Gorp wrote:

When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
Mind if I ask, "Huh?"
Oh, by the way, "the literate" is plural. The literate are....
"A literate" is singular. A literate is....
When you correct someone's English do it properly.
I suspect it's shortened from "the literate person is..." as opposed to "the literate people are..." or "the literates are..." So singular instead of plural seems more correct to me. YMMV.
LOL, if we got to do English the way it "seems" then we'd all have passed with A+ . Fortunately for civilization,
such is not the case. Intention has nothing to do with it. What winds up in print is all there is. Take it from an editor.
Can you reference a source to support your claim it should be plural? Sorry, argument via authority doesn't cut it. Smile

The grammar in my signature is correct as is. He's not the first to believe I got it wrong and certainly not the last to be proven wrong in his belief.

When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#124 - 2016-06-26 21:44:11 UTC
*popcorn*

Forum lurking is better than most TV dramas

How did you Veterans start?
John Volan
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#125 - 2016-06-26 21:55:48 UTC
Linus Gorp wrote:
...
The grammar in my signature is correct as is. He's not the first to believe I got it wrong and certainly not the last to be proven wrong in his believe.

*belief


Sorry, couldn't resist.
Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
#126 - 2016-06-26 22:12:17 UTC
John Volan wrote:
Linus Gorp wrote:
...
The grammar in my signature is correct as is. He's not the first to believe I got it wrong and certainly not the last to be proven wrong in his believe.

*belief


Sorry, couldn't resist.

That's what I get for posting in the middle of the night :P

When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
Eli Stan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#127 - 2016-06-26 23:02:42 UTC
1 AM grammar best grammar.
Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
#128 - 2016-06-26 23:30:07 UTC
Eli Stan wrote:
1 AM grammar best grammar.

It's the same with writing code, really. When I write it during the day, it works flawlessly. When I write it during the night, I might as well just trash it all and start anew the next day Roll

When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
Jennifer Maxwell
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#129 - 2016-06-27 00:12:25 UTC
Eli Stan wrote:
Jennifer Maxwell wrote:
Eli Stan wrote:
Jennifer Maxwell wrote:
I permajammed a nag that was trying to assault my astrahus, up until they refit for sensor boosters and brought in an opposing fleet.


How was your Astrahus fit? In the 30 minutes it takes to reinforce one, you should have been able to do enough damage to a seiged dread to kill it.


Two subcap missiles, two heavy neuts, four ECM modules, damage and powergrid/capacitor. With the supporting fleet my fighters couldn't stay out long enough, and the missiles were being repped through. They could field more caps too, and were seen moving FAX machines in so they could presumably field those, but they were struggling against the dps cap so they chose to bring a carrier instead, the fighters of which I kept killing.

The defense timer was just about to tick over about an hour and fifteen minutes after they started since they were struggling to keep the dread locked and I was forcing the rest of what they had off, but then they brought in some friends and that was that.
Ah, yeah, that sort of fit isn't going to do much at all against any committed attacker, I think. The subcap missile launchers are trash against subcaps, doing only about as much damage as one or two battleships which can easily be countered by a few logi, and obviously trash against dreads like the Nag you were fighting. The ECM mods do well to remove four hostile ships from the fight, but that's only temporary unlike actually destroying ships. Finally, heavy neuts have a decent cycle time but take several cycles to cap out anything.

Instead, for your next Astrahus try two anti-capital launchers (they would have been able to kill that Nag), an XL neut, and a bomb launcher. For the mids, at least one scram, one web, and one TP - for the final mid you can do either another TP or another web. With web and TP, the anti-cap launchers actually do as much damage against subcaps as the anti-subcap launchers. You'll still lose the Astrahus to a subcap fleet with logi support without getting any kills if you're on your own, but you'll take out enough caps sent against you to at least make your kb not-red if they go that route.

I didn't actually lose that citadel, they never showed for the second timer because I actually had a small fleet to assist me that time, plus it was an hour later than the last one and they were already complaining a ton about how tired they were the first go around. They were US, and I put the timers into AUTZ cause very few people around that timezone wanted to muster for an unimportant citadel in an unimportant system. It only got attacked because a new group moved in and wanted their new home clean. We eventually negotiated a citadel mutual defense thing.

I'll definitely keep your fit on hand, but I'm partial to ECM personally cause I used to be a Falcon/Rook pilot for a long time. Plus, now that it's gotten attacked once, I've moved the timers to a time our main coalition fleet can support. I probably will upgrade to anti cap batteries though.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#130 - 2016-06-27 22:12:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Eli Stan wrote:
1 AM grammar best grammar.

"Look, lady, I only speak two languages: English, and bad English!" - Korben Dallas
KaarBaak
Squirrel Team
#131 - 2016-06-27 22:59:13 UTC
Linus Gorp wrote:
Eli Stan wrote:
Sustrai Aditua wrote:
[quote=Eli Stan][quote=Sustrai Aditua]LOL, if we got to do English the way it "seems" then we'd all have passed with A+ . Fortunately for civilization,
such is not the case. Intention has nothing to do with it. What winds up in print is all there is. Take it from an editor.
Can you reference a source to support your claim it should be plural? Sorry, argument via authority doesn't cut it. Smile

The grammar in my signature is correct as is. He's not the first to believe I got it wrong and certainly not the last to be proven wrong in his belief.

The word "being" seems superfluous.

Dum Spiro Spero
Dirty Forum Alt
Forum Alts Anonymous
#132 - 2016-06-27 23:04:08 UTC
KaarBaak wrote:
The word "being" seems superfluous.

And yet not grammatically incorrect. Yay English?

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool. They lay. They rotted. They turned Around occasionally. Bits of flesh dropped off them from Time to time. And sank into the pool's mire. They also smelt a great deal.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings (Sussex)