Official bitch about daily life in UL

Chris Martin

Christ don't go to America then...
They've a whole new language invented under the guise of English...

iLaura

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I understood, but it's the incorrect word to use. Why use the wrong word when one can just use the right one?

Same reason why people say they've a compensating pass when its a compensating fail.

wnolan1992

*dramatic trailer voice*
In a world where "literally" means "figuratively"...
Where "aluminium" is pronounced as "a-loo-min-um"...
And where "lol" means "I found that mildly amusing"...
One man is on a mission to right these wrongs...
One man, on a quest for grammatical correctness...
deaddonkey15 in...
THE GRAMMAR POLICE
This time, he's, literally, lost for words...

Cinemas June 1st.
This movie has not yet been rated.

Ave Sodalis

wnolan1992 wrote: »

*dramatic trailer voice*
In a world where "literally" means "figuratively"...
Where "aluminium" is pronounced as "a-loo-min-um"...
And where "lol" means "I found that mildly amusing"...
One man is on a mission to right these wrongs...
One man, on a quest for grammatical correctness...
deaddonkey15 in...
THE GRAMMAR POLICE
This time, he's, literally, lost for words...

Cinemas June 1st.
This movie has not yet been rated.

0/10, would not recommend.

I actually appreciate the correct use of English. However, every single correction I got back from my supervisor focused on little things like putting in comas or rephrasing a perfectly usable word, instead of what's actually in the documents. It drove me mad, especially when they didn't make sense. So much so that I would get corrections back, and then have to stop working for a few hours because I'd be too annoyed to continue. I'm still quite touchy about Grammar Nazis.

wnolan1992

sup_dude wrote: »

0/10, would not recommend.

Did I mention it also stars Liam Neeson?

"If you don't learn to use a semi-colon correctly, I will find you, and I will kill you!"

deaddonkey15

sup_dude wrote: »

0/10, would not recommend.

I actually appreciate the correct use of English. However, every single correction I got back from my supervisor focused on little things like putting in comas or rephrasing a perfectly usable word, instead of what's actually in the documents. It drove me mad, especially when they didn't make sense. So much so that I would get corrections back, and then have to stop working for a few hours because I'd be too annoyed to continue. I'm still quite touchy about Grammar Nazis.

Except I wasn't correcting little things like comas (which are quite important to someone who really does appreciate the correct use of English), I was pointing out that the word plug is simply incorrect. It's like calling a keyhole a key.

Ave Sodalis

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

Except I wasn't correcting little things like comas (which are quite important to someone who really does appreciate the correct use of English), I was pointing out that the word plug is simply incorrect. It's like calling a keyhole a key.

Re-read last sentence :P

Chris Martin

wnolan1992 wrote: »

*dramatic trailer voice*
In a world where "literally" means "figuratively"...
Where "aluminium" is pronounced as "a-loo-min-um"...
And where "lol" means "I found that mildly amusing"...
One man is on a mission to right these wrongs...
One man, on a quest for grammatical correctness...
deaddonkey15 in...
THE GRAMMAR POLICE
This time, he's, literally, lost for words...

Cinemas June 1st.
This movie has not yet been rated.

Branching out into Cinematography are we?
And releasing it on my birthday no less! :P

On the topic though, I spot mistakes all the time, I could be an excellent Grammar Nazi, the problem is you have to be on your guard the whole time, as every post you make will be dissected for errors, spelling and grammatical.
I personally don't have willpower to keep it up though as I frequently make mistakes, I'm human
I do like when other people declare mistakes and make one of their own though... (Missing an 'm' in comma) and in relation to varying importance of English; Comma's can be the difference between life and death in writing, I don't think anyone's come to much harm using plug instead of socket when announcing he doesn't need one.

This of course could all be procrastination from studying for exams in which case I'd be relieved as such a dislike between the mix up of plug and socket sounds unhealthy..

wnolan1992

Chris Martin wrote: »

Branching out into Cinematography are we?

With these mad camera skillz, how could I not? :P

shazzerman

Chris Martin wrote: »

Branching out into Cinematography are we?
And releasing it on my birthday no less! :P

On the topic though, I spot mistakes all the time, I could be an excellent Grammar Nazi, the problem is you have to be on your guard the whole time, as every post you make will be dissected for errors, spelling and grammatical.
I personally don't have willpower to keep it up though as I frequently make mistakes, I'm human
I do like when other people declare mistakes and make one of their own though... (Missing an 'm' in comma) and in relation to varying importance of English; Comma's can be the difference between life and death in writing, I don't think anyone's come to much harm using plug instead of socket when announcing he doesn't need one.

This of course could all be procrastination from studying for exams in which case I'd be relieved as such a dislike between the mix up of plug and socket sounds unhealthy..

That should be "Commas". Might be useful to stick one of those after "exams" in last paragraph above too...;)

iLaura

wnolan1992 wrote: »

With these mad camera skillz, how could I not? :P

Your skills are being wasted in radio!

deaddonkey15

I'm making no real effort to ensure my spelling and grammar is correct, my point is why do people consistently use an incorrect word? What ye are all referring to is called a socket. It's not a plug and never will be.

Ave Sodalis

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I'm making no real effort to ensure my spelling and grammar is correct, my point is why do people consistently use an incorrect word? What ye are all referring to is called a socket. It's not a plug and never will be.

Plug. Plug. Plug. Every time I'm looking for a "socket" from now on, I'm gonna call it plug and bold it and underline it. Maybe even put it in italics. Might increase the size too.

Ave Sodalis

deaddonkey15 wrote: »

I'm making no real effort to ensure my spelling and grammar is correct, my point is why do people consistently use an incorrect word? What ye are all referring to is called a socket. It's not a plug and never will be.

Plug. Plug. Plug. Every time I'm looking for a "socket" from now on, I'm gonna call it plug and bold it and underline it. Maybe even put it in italics. Might increase the size too.

iLaura

sup_dude wrote: »

Plug. Plug. Plug. Every time I'm looking for a "socket" from now on, I'm gonna call it plug and bold it and underline it. Maybe even put it in italics. Might increase the size too.

I wouldnt really mind it but I always call it a plug. Its a 'plug socket', shortened to plug :P

Midkemia

It will always be a plug to me! Really wish I was in the stables tonight

iLaura

Midkemia wrote: »

It will always be a plug to me! Really wish I was in the stables tonight

I wish I was in Limerick in general. Unfortunately have to work tomorrow

shano_88

Going to the library on a Sunday just doesnt feel right.

Ave Sodalis

shano_88 wrote: »

Going to the library on a Sunday just doesnt feel right.

You get used to it :P

Ave Sodalis

Awkward moment when you think sitting beside a Boardsie in the library... and they don't even realise and you're not sure...

iLaura

sup_dude wrote: »

Awkward moment when you think sitting beside a Boardsie in the library... and they don't even realise and you're not sure...

I'd love to sit beside one of ye in the library, happen to catch ye posting, and then just message you and be like "Look to your left/right...", and then say hi :P

I was sitting beside a boards guy last week, but he want on the UL side of it

jamo2oo9

What can I do about getting an I-grade? I'm absolutely fúcked with this headache, high temperature and upset. Have an exam tomorrow and I couldn't revise at all today.

Chris Martin

If you think you're going to miss an exam notify them as soon as possible.
Be in there instantly with the doctors cert to lecturer and doctors as well.
I missed an exam due to illness. Had a doctors cert but couldn't make it into Limerick. Tried to apply for I grade and they said I'd missed deadline. Had to pay cost of repeat and grade got capped at C3. Sickened.

iLaura

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

What can I do about getting an I-grade? I'm absolutely fúcked with this headache, high temperature and upset. Have an exam tomorrow and I couldn't revise at all today.

Ring the health centre first thing in the morning I would presume, and tell them you're just as sick, even if you're not. I would assume then you'd have to go to the doctor and he'd give you a cert

Chris Martin

On a bitching note...
This happened during the week and was so angry about it at the time but forgot to post.

Firstly, two people coming to fix the roof of my bathroom ceiling that were supposed to fix it early April called to my apartment. It was about 10 o clock and I was after getting no sleep the night before so was passed out at 10.
Anyway they buzzed once. I woke, realised there was someone at the door and I'm fully sure, set a record for time took to get dressed, go down stairs and talk to someone in your 4th best language. Quite a specific record but think it's mine.. About 13 seconds.. :P
Anyway I let them in, still 3/4 asleep and they started talking to me. Now I know very little Italian but managed to piece together what they wanted to do and a minute later I was carrying stuff out of the bathroom. Once that was done I went back upstairs and said may as well pack up my stuff and head to library, make use of the opportunity as I'm never up at that time.
There was something I needed from bathroom though so I'd to wait til they were gone. Took them about an hour and they left the place in an okay state. There was dust here and there and they did leave all stuff outside of bathroom but all in all not too bad.
They said they'd be back on Monday (tomorrow) to finish it off.
Now I did go to library about 12ish and there wasn't a single seat available so I went clothes shopping. I needed a jacket.
So a jacket, 3 polo shirts, some shorts and 4 pairs of socks later, I went home. I started to put things back in bathroom again, bins and TP holder and bottles and stuff when I realised my hand towel/ face cloth was soaking wet.
I thought that's odd, I definitely didn't do. Then I picked it up and opened it out and loads of little pieces of plaster fell out of it.
Filthy bastards used my face cloth to clean the bathroom floor after they scraped moulding plaster off roof and replastered it.

I was livid at the time. The audacity to see something in the cabinet of our bathroom and think, that'll do the job and use it and leave it there.
They didn't announce they were leaving or anything, understand why now...

Back again tomorrow, wondering will I leave them be or let bygones be bygones. Chances are they won't understand me but they should know it's out of order.

onethreefive

After tomorrow's exam my exams get a lot harder but I'm far more prepared for my harder exams!

iLaura

onethreefive wrote: »

After tomorrow's exam my exams get a lot harder but I'm far more prepared for my harder exams!

My next exam isnt till Saturday. Its such a balls. I hate having this much time between exams -.-

onethreefive

Anyone in Groody make sure ye have ye're doors locked there's kids on bikes cycling around looking all around them

onethreefive

They tried to steal my bike and moved it from where I had it and then they found out its completely broken HAHAHAHA

iLaura

onethreefive wrote: »

They tried to steal my bike and moved it from where I had it and then they found out its completely broken HAHAHAHA

Yeah, I saw then skulking around trying to get in through the gates behind people earlier, so when I was going back in from the shop I just left enough room for me to go by and he started cursing at me :P
The bástards managed to steal my bike last year but couldnt get the lock off properly and gave up and threw it into Bru na Grudan after bending the rim of the back tire into shíte