PMBD

I may not be a grammar whiz, but the technical difficulties message at the official site is bugging me:

Run-on sentence!  AHHH!!!

But mostly I'm just grumpy 'cause I freaking go there for like the third time ever to look for the newer Peggy hairs and it's deadly slow, then not loading, then down for technical difficulties.  Damn them.

Please join me in gouching about EA.  It is fun 'cause they is teh sux.

before I found PMBD I used to go there for peggy hairs too <.<  >.>

Anyway, if I tried to download more than one sim at a time it would freeze my sweet little firefox.  *pets*   Honestly I don't think that they suck that much though.  I just don't frequent there because it's kind of like being locked in a room with 50 kindergardners and pixie sticks.

you could have them from SFV if you'd join :P

Between seeing the official site go down and posting this thread I made a wish list there, and someone sent me one of the things on it... and YouSendIt says they are experiencing too much traffic to let me download the file.

Fuck all!

you're right, that is stupid

check your pm's in a few :P

You should see me when people say "Joe and I" when "Joe and me" is the correct way to say it; I practically implode.  xD

When is it appropiate to say "someone and I"?

omg my whole generation grew up being corrected as "Joe and I"

if you were doing it by yourself, and you would say "I", say "someone and I"

"Joe and I subscribe to Carla Niven"

if you were doing it by yourself and you would use me, say "someone and me"

"Carla gave genital herpes to both Joe and me."

I wish yamikuronue was my second grade teacher.  ;_;

good, since I'm currently studying to be a teacher

Me too.  Now I don't feel so lonely.

Joe and I, at the beginning of a sentence, Joe and me, at the end.

Joe and I eat at Joe's, Joe and me.   :lol:

What, I don't get it. If you were doing it by yourself then you use someone and me and if you were doing it by yourself you use someone and I.  :?

edit: ack now I get it. I and me. *is too stupid*

It depends if the someone and me/I is the subject or the object of the verb.  But anyway, without thinking of all that grammar crap, if in doubt try saying exactly the same thing without "someone and" in it.  If it sounds odd like that, you got it the wrong way round :)

thanks for the tip! Another thing I don't get quite well is the somebody, someone, anybody, anyone thingy.

God, how I remember this being drilled into our tiny little heads in grade school.  I still remember to think it out using that principle before using I/me. Good example, by the way.

This is the very reason why I'm glad my Mama corrected my grammar since I started to talk. Everyone was having trouble, and I was just, like, "What the fuck is YOUR problem?"

Unfortunantly, she didn't teach comma usage. Sometimes, it looks like I just threw a handful of comma's at a sentence, and called it a day. >.<

I am also addicted to commas... and elipses ;)

I think I got the comma usage down, but I'm an elipses whore.

Elipses are...natural! My thoughts usually trail off, anyway.

I have to stop myself though. At least with my comma slave-driving, the sentences eventually end.

I'm only glad someone taught me this! It makes getting it right easier.

The "someone and I" used to trip me up in compound sentences, stuff like "She and I didn't get along like he and I."  My father drilled me incessantly about it.  The way I remember I/me is to add a verb at the end.  If it sounds stupid, use me.  If it sounds right, use I.

This vaguely reminds me of the verbal beatdown my AP English teacher gave us after half our class bombed the school-wide grammar test.  He was particularly peeved that since he'd left the room and we, being a bunch of enterprising little bitches, started cheating our asses off.  "Can't you AP kids even cheat well?" was the refrain from that lecture.

My high school English teacher was saying to me, "You use commas correctly, but it is as if you use them anytime it would be acceptable."
I so enjoy commas.