Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6857|132 and Bush

I stumbled upon this at the Bad Astronomy Blog.
I love Stephen Fry. Love love love. He uses words the way a professional masseuse uses oil. And Matt Rogers, an Australian student, took Stephen’s words and made them even more amazing.
I thought it was cool and worth sharing.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6727
+1
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+796|6941|United States of America
Stephen Fry is amazing.
Toilet Sex
one love, one pig
+1,775|6828

nice typography
-Whiteroom-
Pineapplewhat
+572|6915|BC, Canada
Nice find
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|7028|PNW

Yes, but he did provide circumstances in which it's reasonable to expect some effort put into grammar.
AussieReaper
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+5,761|6409|what

5 items or less.
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
Ty
Mass Media Casualty
+2,398|7031|Noizyland

Very good but fading it out was a bad idea, it needed an end.

I agree with Fry as I often do. His point where he outlines situations where proper uptight grammar and spelling are needed, applicatons, essays etc. is becoming less true though - at least this is what I find. My best job applications have been those that have been more-or-less the same type of language I use here on the forums. I swear less maybe. Certainly my best essays were those where I ignored traditional essay conventions. I made them more chatty, more flowing and easier to read, enjoyable even. The points I got for actually keeping the marker's attention far outweighed the points off I got for ignoring proper academic essay convention. When someone has thirty or more identicle, impenetrable and deeply boring manuscripts to read through the one that's diferent is going to capture their attention and if you have some actual thinking and good ideas behind it and can express them in a clear way there's no reason it should be penalise - aside from 'institutional standards' shit and some may be uptight enough to enforce things like that. Personally by that stage in my university career when I would rather have stapled my ears to my feet than write another stale academic essay I didn't care if I was failed on the spot.

Back on Fry's point, I do support the natural evolution of language but there are some lines that should be drawn. I was outraged when I learned, a couple of years ago, that schools and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority would be allowing students to use text language in school exams. I have always hated text language and don't use it myself, (my dislike for texting possibly brought on by how long it takes me to write a message.) While it may be easy to write it takes about six times longer to read, it's like trying to decypher 20 cars' custom license plates. Allowing this to spread outside texting, (where the effort towards fewer keystrokes do give this type of language validity,) it a terrible idea. In Internet communication for example with people writing in text language on forums or facebok or in e-mails. Don't like it. Stephen Fry my call me a pedant but I can live with that.

I have always been pedantic about the misuse of 'a lot'. It's my grammar pet peeve. However after reading this I now make all uses of the word 'alot' refer to this fantasy creature.
[Blinking eyes thing]
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RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6994|Cinncinatti

Ty wrote:

I have always been pedantic about the misuse of 'a lot'. It's my grammar pet peeve. However after reading this I now make all uses of the word 'alot' refer to this fantasy creature.
haha
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6884|UK
Was just about to post this. Lucky I searched, huh. I have to say that I'm guilty of being, on occasions, the pedant described. I'm sure that lots of people are guilty. For example, "you*re".

On another note: Language evolves.
Camm
Feeding the Cats.
+761|5225|Dundee, Scotland.

liquidat0r wrote:

Was just about to post this. Lucky I searched, huh. I have to say that I'm guilty of being, on occasions, the pedant described. I'm sure that lots of people are guilty. For example, "you*re".

Language evolves.
There is a difference between 'language evolving' and people not knowing the differences between 'your' and 'you're'
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6884|UK
I know, my two points were completely unrelated.
Camm
Feeding the Cats.
+761|5225|Dundee, Scotland.

liquidat0r wrote:

I know, my two points were completely unrelated.
oh lols. k
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
aerodynamic
FOCKING HELL
+241|6010|Roma

liquidat0r wrote:

Was just about to post this. Lucky I searched, huh. I have to say that I'm guilty of being, on occasions, the pedant described. I'm sure that lots of people are guilty. For example, "you*re".

On another note: Language evolves.
or definatly.
https://bf3s.com/sigs/8ea27f2d75b353b0a18b096ed75ec5e142da7cc2.png
Camm
Feeding the Cats.
+761|5225|Dundee, Scotland.

aerodynamic wrote:

liquidat0r wrote:

Was just about to post this. Lucky I searched, huh. I have to say that I'm guilty of being, on occasions, the pedant described. I'm sure that lots of people are guilty. For example, "you*re".

On another note: Language evolves.
or definatly.
or of instead of have. as in "I should of known that". URGH.
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
tazz.
oz.
+1,338|6431|Sydney | ♥

"Do they ever yoke impossible words together just for the sound-sex of it?

DO THEY!?"

XD XD
everything i write is a ramble and should not be taken seriously.... seriously.
ghettoperson
Member
+1,943|6906

I could listen to Stephen Fry talk for days. His voice and use of language is amazing.
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6989|St. Andrews / Oslo

ghettoperson wrote:

I could listen to Stephen Fry talk for days. His voice and use of language is amazing.
indeed, he's brilliant. One of my lecturers sounds and talks just like him - which is quite awesome.
https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/26774/flickricon.png https://twitter.com/phoenix/favicon.ico
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6989|St. Andrews / Oslo

PS - this is a short version of one of his podcast episodes, which can be found (in full) in the iTunes store.
https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/26774/flickricon.png https://twitter.com/phoenix/favicon.ico
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6727
i always hold my breath in giving praise to stephen fry stuff because the unavoidable crowd of fry fanboys turn me back off him

oh my god jens! one of your lecturers sounds posh!
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+796|6941|United States of America
As long as you don't say that you liked him before he became popular, it's all good.
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6727
before he was 'popular'? im not sure anyone was even born on this forum was fry was actually 'popular'
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
13urnzz
Banned
+5,830|6754

*ahem

i actually knew of him before i joined the forum. nice to see him getting props.

also, nice to see Kmar now and again . . .
DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+796|6941|United States of America
True enough, I'm applying the generic hipsteresque sentiment towards bands and how they were good "before they were mainstream/popular" to a person such as Fry. The post was probably a feeble, planned-to-fail attempt at humor, feel free to mock it.
ghettoperson
Member
+1,943|6906

Uzique wrote:

i always hold my breath in giving praise to stephen fry stuff because the unavoidable crowd of fry fanboys turn me back off him

oh my god jens! one of your lecturers sounds posh!
We get it Uzi, you like things that other people don't, and if other people like it too then it isn't quite as good any more.

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