Longest sentence in the world.

eternal

Has anyone else noticed the lack of full stops around Boards? It's becoming more and more prevalent and I can't understand why people refuse to ignore basic sentence structure. The posts could be jam packed with intelligent points yet hang in the air doubtfully. I plead and beg for the forgotten full stop to be remembered before it becomes completely obsolete in the forums.

PARlance

Period time again?

catallus

Example?

eternal

catallus wrote: »

Example?

I don't think you're allowed to quote people and point out errors.

Knex*

eternal wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed the lack of full stops around Boards? It's becoming more and more prevalent and I can't understand why people refuse to ignore basic sentence structure. The posts could be jam packed with intelligent points yet hang in the air doubtfully. I plead and beg for the forgotten full stop to be remembered before it becomes completely obsolete in the forums.

The eternal sentence, you might say?

walkingshadow

PARlance wrote: »

Period time again?

I hope not.

aaronjumper

I. haven't. really. noticed.

Knex*

PARlance wrote: »

Period time again?

I think its the lack of periods that are the issue here.

The Backwards Man

Yep, lack of a full stop drives me mental too

Reoil

There's something equally annoying .It's people who try to use punctuation . But fail to do it correctly!!!!!1!!

Tony Beetroot

It is a trivial annoyance.

eternal

How well you jest. There will be a day when nobody understands anybody anymore.

aaronjumper

Ithinkyou'reblowingthingsoutofproportion

endacl

I've a few spare. Sprinkle liberally......................................................

eternal

Not pointing at anyone in particular but some up and coming future of the country people seem to be at fault.

CarrickMcJoe

I thought this thread was about some complete b4stard who just got committed to jail for a very very long time..

catallus

eternal wrote: »

There will be a day when nobody understands anybody anymore.

Maybe we're there already.

eternal

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

I thought this thread was about some complete b4stard who just got committed to jail for a very very long time..

For murdering the English language, yes.

darkpagandeath

I thought the English language is an Evolving one, Sure in the past did they not use spaces. Someone invented them.

Tony Beetroot

eternal wrote: »

Not pointing at anyone in particular but some up and coming future of the country people seem to be at fault.

The country people :pac:

harney

eternal wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed the lack of full stops around Boards? It's becoming more and more prevalent and I can't understand why people refuse to ignore basic sentence structure. The posts could be jam packed with intelligent points yet hang in the air doubtfully. I plead and beg for the forgotten full stop to be remembered before it becomes completely obsolete in the forums.

Now paragraphs on the other hand, you can't move without tripping over a paragraph around here!

Chloris

If anyone knew of or could find me that quote by a famous author...

It's something like this:
"Writing is simple. You start with a short sentence like this. Then, you thresh out the point you made slightly more in the next sentence so that you hold the attention of your audience. Finally, a short concluding sentence to wrap it up."

Except, needless to say, it's put far more eloquently and much wittier than that.

Punctuation is one thing, but lack of appropriate capitalisation fries my ass.

As long as I can understand what's being said, it's okay. It is easier when due care is taken though!

Menas

Its times like these I wish my english teacher had not of been a hottie. I learnt nothing in that class because of the haze of lust.

darkpagandeath

Candie wrote: »

Punctuation is one thing, but lack of appropriate capitalisation fries my ass.

As long as I can understand what's being said, it's okay. It is easier when due care is taken though!

Is the world not a more fun place though without commas. Can lead to all kinds of tomfoolery and misunderstanding.

Irish Guitarist

what i find annoying is when someone uses lol instead of a full stop lol i really hate it lol its really annoying and makes me want to stab them in the face lol

And lots and lots of exclamation marks!!!! Perky morons!!!!!!

You just know that if they had a single thought in their heads, it would die of loneliness.

kfallon

Candie wrote: »

And lots and lots of exclamation marks!!!! Perky morons!!!!!!

You just know that if they had a single thought in their heads, it would die of loneliness.

There's nothing wrong with exclamation marks ffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

deandean

Here is the longest sentence I've come across. This is from my fave book, which in it's original form had no puncuation at all:

23 *And Jesus himself began to be about dthirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, fwhich was the son of Heli, 24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, 25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, 26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, 27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of gZorobabel, which was the son of gSalathiel, which was the son of Neri, 28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er, 29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, 30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim, 31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of hNathan, which was the son of iDavid, 32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson, 33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda, 34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, kwhich was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, 35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala, 36 lWhich was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, mwhich was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, 37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, 38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, nwhich was the son of God.

kfallon

^^^^^ Ah here, ffs.....

kfallon

kfallon wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with exclamation marks ffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Perky git

deandean wrote: »

Here is the longest sentence I've come across.

That's amateur stuff!

I read a book a few years ago and some sentences were pages long. I can't remember the title, but I think the author was Umberto Eco.

Flippyfloppy

eternal wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed the lack of full stops around Boards It's becoming more and more prevalent and I can't understand why people refuse to ignore basic sentence structure The posts could be jam packed with intelligent points yet hang in the air doubtfully I plead and beg for the forgotten full stop to be remembered before it becomes completely obsolete in the forums.

FYP

cml387

Charles the first walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.
Charles the first walked and talked. Half an hour after his head was cut off.

kfallon

Candie wrote: »

Perky git

You got me perked.

Oh, obligatory exclamation marks too!!!!!!!! :P

The only time you should be using long sentences is in a College project/assignment where you have to write 'X' amount of words and you can get the word count up by using 'and', 'but' etc to join sentences together

dr.fuzzenstein

It's the death of the English language in general:

Ho yiz gys, can anyn tell me were d 4 ldz gone to, cuz I need 2 go to da shop is 2 da bookies, cuz lolz, dunno!

When asked "excuse me, what is that in English?", the reply is usually:

"How dare yez, I rite howz I like, you mak no sens 2 me, so shut up, grammer nazi, is dere nothink in yr life, just criticicne odr peple, I just ax a questin, so sht up or be useful!"

To which the only reply can be: "half past three"
Must be in today's "yoof culture" you have to write like that to be "down with da kidz", but seriously this is not being cool, I think the only technical torm for that kind of writing can be brain damage.

Chloris

I once proof-read an assignment for my friend; for some reason, he used two spaces after any punctuation. He also skipped down to a new paragraph

to start any new point or for apparently no reason, sometimes right in the middle of a sentence. He'd leave a superfluous space at the beginning of that too. All of his sentences

were the same length. The essay was in favour of corporal punishment. I, too, favored execution when I had finished proofing ( essentially rewritten ) it.

He still only got a D in it.

jimgoose

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

It's the death of the English language in general:

Ho yiz gys, can anyn tell me were d 4 ldz gone to, cuz I need 2 go to da shop is 2 da bookies, cuz lolz, dunno!

When asked "excuse me, what is that in English?", the reply is usually:

"How dare yez, I rite howz I like, you mak no sens 2 me, so shut up, grammer nazi, is dere nothink in yr life, just criticicne odr peple, I just ax a questin, so sht up or be useful!"

To which the only reply can be: "half past three"
Must be in today's "yoof culture" you have to write like that to be "down with da kidz", but seriously this is not being cool, I think the only technical torm for that kind of writing can be brain damage.

"ldz gone to" is an indirect jump, which means on this machine there is a delay-slot immediately afterwards. So stick in a no-op just before "cuz" to avoid inadvertently branching to Fishkill. You're welcome. That concludes today's Ask A Machine-Code Programmer!

Boom_Bap

Try reading some David Foster Wallace. Some of his sentences go for pages without punctuation, but make perfect sence.
The sentences would be train of thought scentences from disturbed characters, or from recovering addicts.
The one that springs to mind the most is of a recovering alcoholic describing his first solid bowel movement in years.

Geniass

Chloris wrote: »

He still only got a D in it.

You mean ye both only got a D

Chloris

Chloris wrote:

I once proof-read an assignment for my friend; for some reason, he used two spaces after any punctuation. He also skipped down to a new paragraph


to start any new point or for apparently no reason, sometimes right in the middle of a sentence. He'd leave a superfluous space at the beginning of that too. All of his sentences


were roughly the same length. The essay was in favour of corporal punishment. I, too, favored execution when I had finished proofing ( essentially rewritten ) it.

He still only got a D in it.

Apparently it's such an insult to the reader that the boards.ie app saw fit to edit my post, which emulated his mistakes. It's that offensive to look at.

dr.fuzzenstein

jimgoose wrote: »

"ldz gone to" is an indirect jump, which means on this machine there is a delay-slot immediately afterwards. So stick in a no-op just before "cuz" to avoid inadvertently branching to Fishkill. You're welcome. That concludes today's Ask A Machine-Code Programmer!

lulz IDK! :P:cool:

Boom_Bap

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Try reading some David Foster Wallace. Some of his sentences go for pages without punctuation, but make perfect sence.
The sentences would be train of thought scentences from disturbed characters, or from recovering addicts.
The one that springs to mind the most is of a recovering alcoholic describing his first solid bowel movement in years.

And if ever there was a situation I wanted to read pages of detail about, that would not be it!

kfallon

Boom_Bap wrote: »

describing his first solid bowel movement in years.

If you want some cracking descriptions, search for FlutterinBantam, comedy gold

eternal

kfallon wrote: »

If you want some cracking descriptions, search for FlutterinBantam, comedy gold

First time I came across him I was appalled unless I realised it was put on for the most part.

eternal

I just clicked on another thread and no full stops again. I worry for the future.

Depraved

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

I thought this thread was about some complete b4stard who just got committed to jail for a very very long time..

I thought it was about someone who had been sentenced to attend 20 One Direction concerts as punishment.

Capt'n Midnight

CarrickMcJoe wrote: »

I thought this thread was about some complete b4stard who just got committed to jail for a very very long time..

wasn't sent to jail, got a suspended sentence.

they hung him :eek:

Chloris

Chloris wrote: »

I once proof-read an assignment for my friend; for some reason, he used two spaces after any punctuation.

This dates back to typewriters. Two spaces after punctuation was, for a long time, the correct way. Online word processors have eliminated the need for this extra spacing, but it's not quite "wrong" to use it, just outdated.

silverfeather

eternal wrote: »

I plead and beg for the forgotten full stop to be remembered before it becomes completely obsolete in the forums.

I put a pillow down for the sake of your knees.

Trebor176

I know of a few people, in particular, who obviously never heard of punctuation marks. One, in particular, when he actually uses them on the rare occasion, will put in a comma instead of a full stop. I mean, come on. It's basic stuff, for Christ's sake. It has been brought to his attention on a couple of occasions, but he still persists. Another bug bear is using "where" instead of "wear." Another was "spear" for "spare."

One other fellow will use one lengthy paragraph rabbiting on about such and such, and it's impossible to read because of the lack of basic grammar. It really makes my blood boil, if I'm being honest. I haven't got time to be reading over and over things trying to make sense of what has been said, just because some gobsh*te can't use the basic things.

Which brings me on to text speak. What is the point of this? Why use it on social media, rather than just on mobile phones? I do not want to see this. I will refuse to reply to anyone, who uses it. It is even reflected in school and college work too, from what I've heard. Good luck to the serial text speakers in their English papers tomorrow!

Now, I need a drink. . .

silverfeather

Trebor176 wrote: »

I know of a few people, in particular, who obviously never heard of punctuation marks. One, in particular, when he actually uses them on the rare occasion, will put in a comma instead of a full stop. I mean, come on. It's basic stuff, for Christ's sake. It has been brought to his attention on a couple of occasions, but he still persists. Another bug bear is using "where" instead of "wear." Another was "spear" for "spare."

One other fellow will use one lengthy paragraph rabbiting on about such and such, and it's impossible to read because of the lack of basic grammar. It really makes my blood boil, if I'm being honest. I haven't got time to be reading over and over things trying to make sense of what has been said, just because some gobsh*te can't use the basic things.

Which brings me on to text speak. What is the point of this? Why use it on social media, rather than just on mobile phones? I do not want to see this. I will refuse to reply to anyone, who uses it. It is even reflected in school and college work too, from what I've heard. Good luck to the serial text speakers in their English papers tomorrow!

Now, I need a drink. . .

Actually, some Irish students, have worse English in essays than foreign students.