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Use proper grammar!
1) Ignorance: I am so sick of Bitter/Husky/Wheat saying "I don't know that" when they should be saying "I don't know if".
2) Past perfect: "If Ganzi did this had done this he would have been able to win the game."
3) Efficiency: If BoxeR uses 100 workers to kill 1 marauder, his attack can be considered effective. If BoxeR uses 1 worker to kill 1 tank, that attack can be considered fairly cost-efficient. There is no such thing as 'cost-effectiveness'.
4) Hold it!: If a player successfully defends, he holds (the fort, so to speak); he does not hold down anything.
5) Racism: There is no way for zerglings to do anything "as ____ as humanly possible".
Props to MrBitter though; I really enjoyed his casting. All in all, he performed admirably.
In fact, the entire MLG event was very entertaining. *clap clap clap*
 
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cost effectiveness is a real term and you are hurting ESPORTS
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Im sorry. #5 has me ROFL'ing atm.
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I didn't notice 1), 3) and 4) being said even once. lol @ 5)
2) is kind of true though...
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On August 01 2011 13:15 sob3k wrote:
cost effectiveness is a real term and you are hurting ESPORTS
lol im starting to enjoy this hurting esports meme
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On August 01 2011 13:46 cz wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2011 13:15 sob3k wrote:
cost effectiveness is a real term and you are hurting ESPORTS lol im starting to enjoy this hurting esports meme
It's spelled ESPORTS, stop hurting it.
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Damn, if you're peeved by that stuff, your own country that invented the whole "better as ____ ... better than ____" must drive you crazy!
Edit: apparently Germans do it too (taken from zatic's most recent blog): "You have to pass a test on gun safety and proficiency, which takes more time and lessons as getting your driver's license, but not by a lot."
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On August 01 2011 13:00 Dagobert wrote:
Use proper grammar!
1) Ignorance: I am so sick of Bitter/Husky/Wheat saying "I don't know that" when they should be saying "I don't know if".
2) Past perfect: "If Ganzi did this had done this he would have been able to win the game."
3) Efficiency: If BoxeR uses 100 workers to kill 1 marauder, his attack can be considered effective. If BoxeR uses 1 worker to kill 1 tank, that attack can be considered fairly cost-efficient. There is no such thing as 'cost-effectiveness'.
4) Hold it!: If a player successfully defends, he holds (the fort, so to speak); he does not hold down anything.
5) Racism: There is no way for zerglings to do anything "as ____ as humanly possible".
Props to MrBitter though; I really enjoyed his casting. All in all, he performed admirably.
In fact, the entire MLG event was very entertaining. *clap clap clap*
I don't know that you're holding down ESPORTS with a post like this, but if you made a post that didn't add the joke about racism, it might have been more cost-effective.
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I don't know that I can take this seriously!
And... you put my grammar knowledge to shame.
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Well, casting is quite hard, you don't have time to think about every sentence before you speak it, so i don't care about occasional slips :p
Still, how should #5 look:
- as ____ as zerglingly possible
- as ____ as zergingly possible
- as ____ as zergly possible
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Netherlands6142 Posts
On August 01 2011 13:00 Dagobert wrote:
1) Ignorance: I am so sick of Bitter/Husky/Wheat saying "I don't know that" when they should be saying "I don't know if whether".
u_u
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Zurich15325 Posts
On August 01 2011 14:03 Thrill wrote:
Damn, if you're peeved by that stuff, your own country that invented the whole "better as ____ ... better than ____" must drive you crazy!
Edit: apparently Germans do it too (taken from zatic's most recent blog): "You have to pass a test on gun safety and proficiency, which takes more time and lessons as getting your driver's license, but not by a lot."
 I never learned grammar... Most of my English comes from watching X-Files as a kid...
But yeah I should know better.
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Actually, a zergling can run as fast as humanly possible. If the fastest human alive can run at 25 mph, that would be "as fast as humanly possible." If the zergling is running at 25 mph, it is running "as fast as humanly possible." The zergling is not a human running as fast as possible, it is a zergling running as fast as a human is capable of running.
EDIT: basically, the "as _______ as humanly possible" phrase only relates the action to the limits of human possibility. It doesn't say anything about the race (or species, or whatever) of the entity performing the action.
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On August 01 2011 20:04 Pholon wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2011 13:00 Dagobert wrote:
1) Ignorance: I am so sick of Bitter/Husky/Wheat saying "I don't know that" when they should be saying "I don't know if whether".
u_u
Incorrect. Both denote uncertainty, but 'whether' is used whenever there are multiple options (including the binary case) in a 'whether...,or...' construction. 'If' is only used in similar constructions whenever the referent is binary (TRUE/FALSE); additionally, only 'if' can be used whenever it denotes a conditional expression. There are some additional restrictions applying to the case where only 'whether' is applicable, but none of these are relevant in this case.
A) I don't know whether/if you can handle this. (Both are correct.)
B) I also don't know whether/if I should laugh, cry, have a snack or just bitchslap you. (Only 'whether' is correct.)
C) Of course you can't know the difference if/whether all you can go by is intuition. (Only if is correct.)
On August 01 2011 18:43 Morfildur wrote:
Well, casting is quite hard, you don't have time to think about every sentence before you speak it, so i don't care about occasional slips :p
Still, how should #5 look:
- as ____ as zerglingly possible
- as ____ as zergingly possible
- as ____ as zergly possible
?
That's a very good question. If you are not sure how to properly construct such a neologism, you could
a) change the subject: "He used the zerglings as efficiently as humanly possible!"
b) dop the "as ___" altogether: "The zerglings dealt as much damage as possible,... !"
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On August 01 2011 23:16 Dagobert wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2011 20:04 Pholon wrote:On August 01 2011 13:00 Dagobert wrote:
1) Ignorance: I am so sick of Bitter/Husky/Wheat saying "I don't know that" when they should be saying "I don't know if whether".
u_u Incorrect. Both denote uncertainty, but 'whether' is used whenever there are multiple options (including the binary case) in a 'whether...,or...' construction. 'If' is only used in similar constructions whenever the referent is binary (TRUE/FALSE); additionally, only 'if' can be used whenever it denotes a conditional expression. There are some additional restrictions applying to the case where only 'whether' is applicable, but none of these are relevant in this case.
...so he's not incorrect.
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Calgary25980 Posts
I feel like this is #100 on the list of worries...
Edit: It's like opening a thread "Please casters, stop buttoning your bottom jacket button!"
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EPT
