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Relatively Uncommon Things About You

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
Staff member
Premium Member
A few more:

-My second language (English) is mostly self-taught without any considerable help from teachers; I only learned the basics at school.

-I used to be really scared of dogs until I played with my best friend's dog. Actually, I still avoid walking near dogs if I see any of them on the street.

-I listen to songs in English almost exclusively and generally don't have much interest in ones that are in my native language.

-I spent over 75% of my life in a country other than the one I was born in and belonged to an extremely small minority in the last two years I spent there.

-Generally, I focus a lot on how people use punctuation marks in their posts. I can recognize a lot of people's posting styles through that.
 

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
Staff member
Premium Member
What punctuation do I use that identifies my posts?

Based on what I've seen, these are the main things I've noticed that I generally identify your posts through:

• You tend not to use commas to separate certain words/interjections from the rest of the sentence(s) they're in, although commas would normally be used after them (strictly speaking). For example:

Well unless you disagree with the Qur'an then of course it has something to do with your feelings.

Well sure, but a whole host of civilizations existing prior to the 20th century said slavery was okay too.

Fortunately that's not really how truth gets sorted out.

Yeah to me it seems this thread turned mostly into an example of derailment rather than a discussion on it.

Okay I didn't read all that but it seems clear to me that violence is way worse of a problem than nudity. Violence can constructively appear in fiction, but often it seems used inappropriately or excessively. I don't think there's anything wrong with nudity, but sexualization and objectification tend to be significant social problems, imo.

Well before I had a noticeable sexual orientation, I liked the idea of falling in love with a guy someday. Any show or movie I watched, involved heterosexuals. And then later I became noticeably attracted to guys.

[...]

A lot of people do the same thing, but from what I've seen, their spelling and grammar tend to have a lot of mistakes. Your posts don't seem that way to me, though, so the lack of commas after the introductory interjections/words combined with the relatively polished grammar and spelling is one of the things I identify your posts through.

• Sometimes you use commas where they wouldn't normally be used (again, strictly speaking :D). For example:

Desire would require the concept of time to make sense. To not have something, desire it, and try to attain it, is a sequential set of events.

[...]

I think that most religions as practiced by most people, are a form of escapism.

But so is much else. Movies, books, shows- one gets to escape reality for a little while and enjoy something different, and generally more exciting.

The thing I said I was in favor of in my posts, was having gender-neutral options in addition to regular bathrooms.

• You use hyphens to perform the same function as em dashes and seem to always leave a space after but not before them:

Seems relevant:


Plus since then, there's more evidence of clear causality- remove a part of the brain, or have it damaged in a stroke, and you can lose that aspect of personality, or memories, or function, or consciousness itself. A brain like in the OP growing from the beginning around an issue, and therefore managing to create functionality with limited space, rather than losing anything it once had, is a different situation entirely.

Now that show I can actually recommend. Not related to feminism or misogyny though.

And it actually gets better as it goes- the earlier episodes have novice actors but they develop better into their roles as the show goes. And throughout the series, some individual villains are lame, but the main villains are well done. The show doesn't have the biggest budget, because the CW doesn't have a large viewership (although Arrow is quite successful by CW standards), but they work well with their budget.

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Nor does it affect actually monogamous people- just polyamorous people vs the rather large subset of people that agree to monogamous terms and then fail to live up to their own agreements.

[...]

I could be wrong, but I generally get the impression that your posts are written in a way so as to express thoughts in "real time" as opposed to being prepared in advance, if that makes sense. Your use of commas seems to me to reflect this at times, as it appears to indicate mid-speech pauses as if the written material were being spoken by someone.

By the way, apologies if I sounded pedantic above, since I admittedly think I might perceive what I said above as such if it were posted by someone else. Then again, maybe it doesn't sound that way at all and this is just me overly analyzing things again. :p :D
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
DS, there is such a thing as an optional comma. I've had long arguments with editors about that.
 

Debater Slayer

Vipassana
Staff member
Premium Member
DS, there is such a thing as an optional comma. I've had long arguments with editors about that.

Yeah, which is why I purposely avoided calling it "wrong"; I just said it wouldn't "normally" be used. :D

I think sticklerism can sometimes reduce clarity of writing anyway, which is why I sometimes don't get it when some teachers and/or editors absolutely insist that not following a certain set of rules at all times makes one's writing "wrong." I mean, if it gets the meaning across, what's the big deal?
 

Nyingjé Tso

Dharma not drama
I enjoy randomly meowing for no apparent reason... I can imitate a cat so perfectly that people always go look for a cat. It's a funny prank to often do :D
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
I enjoy randomly meowing for no apparent reason... I can imitate a cat so perfectly that people always go look for a cat. It's a funny prank to often do :D

We had a pediatrician who could make an awesome meowing sound, and pretend there was a cat hiding just behind him. Our son was shy of the stranger and didn't want to co-operate in the checkup, but Doc managed to get him to look for the cat, while Doc watched it all.

me? - Whindu, and a traditional one, I can juggle, married 39 years, got married 3 times to the same woman. :)
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I enjoy randomly meowing for no apparent reason... I can imitate a cat so perfectly that people always go look for a cat. It's a funny prank to often do :D
That's weird. I do the same thing, but with bird calls, which really interest cats.
If we ever got together, & lightning did not strike, we could drive cats nuts.
 

illykitty

RF's pet cat
I enjoy randomly meowing for no apparent reason... I can imitate a cat so perfectly that people always go look for a cat. It's a funny prank to often do :D

Speaking of which, me and my husband have "conversations" meowing to each other...

'Kay now most must think I'm crazy. :p
 
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