What is Reddit's opinion of Ginger?

I think the intent is very cute and your boyfriend sounds like a stand-up chap, but the delivery still feels kinda weird to me? Like, "Hi, this is Jane. She's a nuclear physicist. And also my mom."

Not that what he said was odd, but it's almost as if it's violating the order of adjectives, like "my blue square big handbag" instead of "my big square blue handbag".

http://www.gingersoftware.com

I highly recommend it for checking grammar. I'm a copywriter, I do ~10 articles every day and I use Ginger. Note that it isn't a text editor, you can't save anything you write in it. You can either copy and paste text in or, do what I do, work a paragraph at a time and then move each one into your document when you know it's right. The extra time it takes is less than the time you will save not having to correct basic grammar :)

> only seems to exasperate that

I agree with your message wholesale, but I think you meant exacerbate.

Moral:

> concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

Morale:

> a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose

http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/moral-morale

so basically he's saying: fuck right and wrong, as long as I'm having fun it's ok.

Well, why do we say six rolls of film and not six films? English has counters.

Edit: I'm not a linguist. Since posting this I've realized there's a difference between measure counters and classifiers. English doesn't really have many classifiers in that sense [head of cattle] but we do have a lot of measuring ones [cups of water, blades of grass].

There are many aspects of languages that just... are. It's like asking german speakers why the second verb in a sentence goes at the end, or why their grammatical ordering is Motion -> Time -> Place. (I think, it's been a while). Or asking English speakers why we have a specific adjective type order.

> Quantity or number; Quality or opinion; Size; Age; Shape; Color; Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material); Purpose or qualifier

Source

So, for example, "one good little red Australian menstruation crustacean".

Use "too" for anything that is 'extra' or 'added on.' For instance: There was too much water in the boat. John and I went swimming, and Joe came too.

Use "to" for pretty much everything else. For instance: John and I went to the park.

I found this on the Google

Adjective order. I don't bring it up because it's difficult to learn, per se. Rather, it's surprising for natives that it needs to be learnt in the first place, as they handle it entirely subconsciously.

'The big red dog' rather than 'the red big dog', for example. The latter just sounds 'wrong' to natives, despite never being explicitly taught why. In English, adjectival order is as follows:

Quantity or number
Quality or opinion
Size
Age
Shape
Color
Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
Purpose or qualifier

See here for more examples

Because there is an order to adjectives to the order of quantity, quality, size, age, shape, color, Proper adjective, and finally purpose, or qualifier. So one would say the two great big old tall black African Americans. Because African, big, tall, old, black, great, two men sounds weird.

Source: http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/

Edit: Actually both of these are under size, but theres probably even more structure lying underneath.

Edit 2: thank you u/mason11987. Thin is indeed shape so OP is correct. The first edit is invalid.

For now, you are still good. But in a few generations it might permanently change because spell check wont find that mistake.

For the lazy

I came to this post expecting to read an article about the damage to the River's ecosystem.

TIL: What the difference is between dyeing and dying.

Cause there's actually a rule for it. Not sure if it's like an official rule or just something everyone naturally does.

Fyi it's quantity, quality, size, age, shape, color, proper adjective and purpose.

> I have been interested in Mount And Blade and bought it and needed help and I see Trottwats is commenting helpful things everywhere on this Subreddit.

I am very glad I could help you enjoy your time with the game, it means a lot to hear. However, you and anyone else can always send me a PM if you have any specific questions you want to ask me.

> Is he dev or mod to the game?

No, I am not a developer for the series or a moderator of /r/mountandblade, I am just someone who wants to help build a fantastic community around a great game.

I do a lot of work on mods now, expect some possible releases down the road. I am focusing on small and fun mods for Warband right now, I likely will not release anything too major for M&B until I get my hands on Bannerlord and a ton of time.

> How do I get sensible subscriber flair?

It was given to me about a week ago over on this post.

I do not know if you can just ask the mods for personalized flair, someone else will have to answer that one.

> I am sorry for bad english I am learning

It is quite alright. I recomend running through your posts through a grammar checker before submitting them, Reddit can be a mean place sometimes.

Also, try using Imgur when hosting an image, it works well with Reddit.

Welcome to the subreddit! I hope you enjoy your time here.

Sorry, but I don't think that's correct. The gerund phrase is the object of the sentence, but the gerund verb within the phrase can also have an object. In this case "coaching Team Secret at the Major" is the gerund phrase and object of the sentence, and "Team Secret at the Major" is the object in the gerund phrase.

Here are some additional examples

What he wrote sounds unnatural.

"What would happen if you dropped a 1x1x1 rubber cube off a building?"

Size comes before material. http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/

http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/compound-adjectives/ A compound adjective doesn't always need hyphens. The idea of hyphens in compound adjectives is to avoid ambiguity, but with something as abstract as poetry ambiguity is a good thing. It lets the reader use their imagination. This means any two words can be a compound. Also, a word can be an adjective and a verb at the same time. If you say a person is "sweating" it is also an adjective becuase sweat has a smell, a taste, texture and if you have the right mind set it also has color and temperature. Sweating becomes more than an action, but a quality.

I disagree. Emend and Amend mean very similar things. Emend is generally used in highly professional settings, like improving the text of a thesis, while amend is the more common form of "making it better".

Emended: see here

Three amigos. Now that's a movie I haven't seen in a while.

(Excuse me, not a native speaker, if I'm wrong on this please correct me, I'm just trying to learn.)

Does everyone on reddit use Shear instead of Sheer? Is it a thing?

Edit: nope, its not a thing Sheer vs Shear

There is actually structure to lists of adjectives. I was never taught it but I inherently know it's odd to say a red, big ball instead of a big, red ball.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/

It seems to be a big thing here. There are rules about when and how to pronounce "the" though I'm halfway through a bottle of whisky and I can't be arsed remembering them.

It basically boils down to one of those things that native speakers just "know" but non-native speakers have to learn. Kind of like word order of adjectives

I remember having a full-on argument with a parent about this very matter. For some reason, some song we used in the class had the incorrect "the" sound for the vowel sound. This mum was known as a bit of a pain in the arse and made a big deal about it. The two native speakers were looking at her like she was an alien and trying to convince her that in English, there are always exceptions, and also songs sometimes make grammar mistakes to make it sound better, but even then, she was probably right, but it wasn't a particularly important point.

Bitch was having none of it and proceeded to fucking complain for 30 minutes.

Was glad to leave that job behind.

I think that everyone on all sides should pay greater attention to how they actually use terms. Throughout your whole post, you have capitalized both Socialism and Capitalism. Usually a proper noun conveys the intent to use these terms as groups or ideologies, not as technical terms.

So for example, socialism (with a lowercase s) is a technical term with a very specific definition. Defined as a system of property relation (where that relation is social) and a system of distribution (where that distribution is determined socially).

Socialism (with an uppercase s) indicates a group or ideology that may or may not be in line with the technical definition. For example: Republicans indicate a specific group, with a specific agenda and platform. On the other hand, a republican is "(of a form of government, constitution, etc.) belonging to, or characteristic of a republic." You can be a Republican and support and pursue very un-republican things. You can also be republican while being a Democrat. As another example, even if the former Soviet Union called it self communist or socialist, they were only in name, and hence they were Communist, not communist. Was the Soviet Union a social arrangement characterized by the dissolution of the state and the obsolescence of money? No. Therefore it wasn't communist per the technical term. Are Scandinavian countries socialist? Do the works own the means of production? Not really. Therefore they aren't socialist per the technical term.

More specifically, we can have some Socialist movement or Socialist party that seeks to bring the world marginally closer to socialism. But it wont be technically socialist till, for instance, property relations are made social, the means of production are social, and distribution is social.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/

For native English speakers it's mostly intuitive. For speakers of English as a second language, it's a nightmare.

Few beliefs. Not little.

Little refers to non-countable nouns, and is used with the singular form to indicate that something exists only in a small amount or to a slight degree. Few refers to countable nouns, and is used with the plural form to indicate not many persons or things.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjectives/few-vs-little/

You might have a preference for a certain order because of familiarity, but there's also an interesting pattern that native speakers tend to use. The Order of Adjectives tends to work even in unfamiliar phrases.

The green three sweaters are in the closet.
The three green sweaters are in the closet.

Which sounds better? A native speaker naturally would be more comfortable with the second.

I don't ever remember learning this in school, but I think that over time, it's been ingrained.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/beside-besides

Beside definition:

next to, at the side of

Besides definition:

making an additional point; anyway

Our little champ is getting awfully fussy! It might be nap time for you, slugger!

I hope you are joking.

It has to do with the context. "I advise you, as my client to do X" In saying that statement I just gave you advice.

In case it's too difficult to grasp: http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/advice-advise

Hate to be that bot, but /u/CAPS_4_FUN actually did mean capital. The word capitol exclusively refers to governance buildings.

I think it's actually "once in a while." A while = a length of time. Awhile = a short period of time. "Sit down and stay awhile."

http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/a%20while-awhile

As an American, I generally stick to the -ed forms of verbs, except for "dreamt," which I use quite often.

Interestingly, I had just been looking up the difference between "dreamt" and "dreamed." I found a website that said "dreamt" is the past tense of "dream" (in a literal sense, as in seeing images when you sleep), whereas "dreamed" is the past tense of "dream" (as in goals, hopes, desires, or ambitions--e.g. I dreamed of going to Hollywood).

I've studied Russian, and those things were a bit troublesome but probably the hardest part was learning all the verb aspect pairs (imperfective/perfective). English has three cases so it's not as if we have no concept of them. I was actually pleased by how easy Russian verb conjugations were after learning French and Spanish, which have many more paradigms to learn.

What a lot of English learners struggle with for a very long time is the phrasal verbs. They are tricky: use the wrong preposition and what you're trying to say might not make sense. It is entirely possible that Russians living in Russia don't even realize that they haven't mastered phrasal verbs because they are used far less in formal writing. Also, the frequently non-phonetic nature of English spelling gives adult learners fits, whereas Russian spelling is mostly phonetic (but you have to learn which syllable is stressed, in both).

I did find Russian harder to learn than other languages I've studied, but it's hard to say how much of that was due to the extra work of reading the Cyrillic script. I memorized the letters quickly, but I was always spending considerably more mental energy on decoding the them as I read than I ever did with languages that use the Latin script.

Here's the basic summary of adjective order:

Generally, the adjective order in English is: Quantity or number. Quality or opinion. Size. Age. Shape. Color. Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material) Purpose or qualifier.

More info/examples

If you notice your example follows this rule. Adjectives for size are listed before adjectives for color.

All native English speakers follow this order for adjectives (without realizing it) in the vast majority of situations. Deviations tend to be intentionally done for emphasis, like how a poet might intentionally use non-standard punctuation.

Now, why we say salt and pepper (not pepper and salt) or milk and honey (not honey and milk) is a bit harder to identify beyond "this is how we've always said it"

Specifically, the thing that stands out to me is that you have 'Armoured' - which does something that relates to numbers (subtracting numbers from die), and 'Armoured II', which does Armoured and something else. The most intuitive grasp of that term is probably going to be people seeing 'Oh, Armoured II, that's like Armoured I but I subtract 2, right?' Similarly, it looks like Breach II is a weaker version of Breach - which sort of doesn't intuitively follow. We tend to see numbers as scaling up!

It's not a huge deal, but it might make life easier if you avoid using different kinds of numbers for things like this.

Another thing to look into is Adjective Order, which can help when you're designing things players are going to talk about aloud. If a player needs to communicate 'this tank is a Foo Bar Frunge Bloogy Tank,' you want to make it so that those words naturally have some flow to them of importance.

The tense/structure of the terms is different, too; a unit IS Defiant, but HAS Evasion. A unit COMMITS Vengeance, but it CAN Overwhelm. Trying to structure all the terms so they follow the same pattern can be useful. Like consider how in Magic: The Gathering, cards can usually be said 'it's a 7/7 beast with First Strike and Trample' - that flows all together as an easily communicated idea.

A few things.

/r/tabletopgamedesign is a design forum. /r/boardgames is a consumer/player forum. You may not get a good reception here.

Use a passive voice in your rules. this tends to make rules much easier to read.

I'm guessing you having played this game yet? If that's the case then play it. If you have played it then what are you looking for critique on? Any idea seems ok on paper so reading this won't get me anywhere.

"There" is an adverb of place. The reason why it's good for students to know how to categorize these words is that once you learn the rule, you can correct this mistake for an entire category of words. So many of them have been taught "the word there includes the word to". Learning each of these words individually is really inefficient.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adverb/adverbs-place/

Some examples: there, here, north, outside, abroad, etc

Knowing that it is an adverb will also explain the following grammar:
I eat there a lot. (there is not a noun, so does not become the object for 'eat')

I love it there. ("it" is the object, which is meaningless but required with the transitive verb "love" and then followed by the adverb "there". Students will say "I love there.")

The people there are friendly. (adverbs follow nouns. Students will usually say "there's people")

As far as how to explain it to students, if they don't know what an adverb is, I explain that. Then I list up adverbs of place and explain how prepositions must be followed by nouns.

The other comment about 'datum' is true but that word is used so rarely that data has effectively become its own word.

The reason it's treated as plural is because it's an uncountable noun. These are nouns describing things that cannot be divided into discrete entities.

It's a collective noun.

You don't say "these assembly" you say "this assembly" despite it being a group of individuals.

If you have groups of assemblies, you might say "these assemblies" just like scientists will say "these data" when referring to multiple sets of data.

There's a bit more information on "data" and "datum" and how they differ here

Upstanding young lady. Adjective order.

Is 18 safe?

>he plans on showering her generosity

Can't tell if you want "showing her generosity", "showering her with generosity", "showering her generously", and I'm not sure it matters because if this isn't about him buying her stuff as a reward for good behavior or similar, you should cut it to something like "Suddenly, Cassie's new influence forces her to accept his discipline." Possibly with an "in order to" if it is about him buying her stuff. Shouldn't have taken me three reads to sort out that's probably what's going on.

It's good to see you back.

Nope, I wasn't looking for that at all.

You are right that it is correct, but my version was already correct too.

It is not one or the other.

It may sound odd to some, but it wasn't incorrect. My grammar may not be the most commonly used, and may be redundant, neither of those things make it wrong.

"Your one" and "yours" both mean the same thing and can be used interchangably. So I already had a correct wording, so had no need to look for anything.

>lead to slaughter

This is probably the most common word I've seen native English speakers make mistake on. It's led not lead. Call me grammar nazi all you want, at least I'm benefiting you.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/breath-breathe

It looks like a self-published book. He may have proof-read it to the best of his own abilities, but just didn't hire a professional to help with editing.

Just saw your latest point making about "Anyways" should be "anyway". Actually, there's nothing wrong with that. "Anyways" is considered a slang: http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/blog/anyway-vs-anyways/

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/to-too-two/

http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/know-no

"When"

"Chapter"

As in:

"NO that is a bad idea. I KNOW that because vol 4 is essential in differentiating Overlord from 90% of the powerwank garbage "new world" works out there. The CHAPTER will release WHEN it is ready, hopefully at the end of the MONTH.

I think the "blonde" should go first, because her presumed race and appearance is more important than any of her earned or learned attributes. Blonde is Caucasian associated, and Causasian is obviously the objectively superior race.

...

Racist jokes aside, I would personally write it as "blonde magical warrior princess."

Following this list.

The real reason I'd put blonde in front is that, for me, "blondeness" is not the colour of the "magical warrior princess," but an attribute tacked on top. I don't actually perceive hair colour as an attribute of someone, because it is a quality that I basically never notice and only mention if I have a very specific reason to stress it.

> The most Internet-famous of these unwritten rules, in English at least, is probably the rule of adjective order.

But doesn't your link go to an article where the rule of adjective order is written down?

Proper nouns have two distinct features: They name specific one-of-a-kind items, and they begin with capital letters, no matter where they occur within a sentence. Here, we’ll take a closer look at proper nouns, provide proper noun examples, and help you learn how to use a proper noun the right way.

Remember that all nouns are words naming people, animals, places, things, and ideas. Every noun can be further classified as either common or proper. The distinction is very easy to make.

For the idiots downvoting basic English skills

Actually, you only put a comma between adjective lists when they don't follow the type rule and they aren't a common exception. It's a real clusterfuck.

Edit: Since I got downvoted, here's the explanation. Or just continue to live in ignorance.

Newspapers (NY Times among them) don't use the Oxford comma because of the days of manual typesetting. Before that, everyone used the Oxford comma. If you're not using a manual typeset, I think the time has come to move on and write with clarity.

Every other organization that publishes a style guide requires it (MLA, Chicago, etc).

Just do it. Your writing will be clearer. Commas might seem like clutter, but they're grammatically necessary for unambiguous text.

> Where are you on split infinitives?

I have no strong opinion. It isn't an ambiguity thing. You?

BTW, here's something you didn't know but is a thing. English requires an order of adjectives. Everyone does it instinctively. It slipped me up trying to understand Spanish's adjectives, because their ordering is different. ;)

It is just the naming scheme to make it easier when looking for parts. Sort of how adjectives need to be in a certain order. In the end it would most likely be processed the same, but we Lego people can just be snooty about naming conventions.

~~Your first assertion is wrong~~

"Zero Hedge's first assertion is wrong"

TIFTFY....

Your assertion of pronouns is incorrect

I didn't assert eggs cost $150, zerohedge did. I just quoted the article.

"The origin of the idiom 'beating around the bush' is associated with hunting. In medieval times, hunters hired men to beat the area around bushes with sticks in order to flush out game taking cover underneath." Where I got the info

"Give it to Fred and I" (Fred and me) "None of the children are hungry" (is) "The team are winning!" (is) (Americans seem to be better at collective nouns than Brits - Radio 4's 'Today' show is dreadful in this regard). This is an interesting post about it: http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/nouns/collective-nouns/ Apostrophes (it's interesting that apostrophes in plurals seem to be a particular problem when the noun in question ends in a vowel: "video's" - which is, apparently, correct in Dutch). Its and it's Criterion/criteria (I've seen criterias!) Lay/lie

> Anyone (as in person/s) and any one (as in any of the things).

Wrong again.

You seriously need to chill. If you don't like these chin punches so much, stop presenting your friggin chin to the punching squad that is the internet.

No apology necessary, the more you know!...

elude vs. allude

I was thinking one thing and typing another.

Sure thing. As a American, the first things that come to mind when the word "utensil" is used are all very small. Pencils, pens, spoons, forks, etc. Things that I am physically picking up and using towards a specific goal. I would consider a broom more of a utensil than I would consider a trash can or dustpan a utensil (probably since the trash can/dustpan sit on the floor). A receptacle, on the other hand, is always some kind of container that things are put into, usually for storage of some sort.

"Much" is only used in comparisons (except for "so much", I suppose). Something like "a lot of" would be fine grammatically, but it's not really needed here because yes, the context doesn't really warrant it.

As for the word order, it's not really something I can explain. "Cool" comes before "compact" because of adjective order, but I'm not sure about "cozier" and "more orderly". It may very well be because of the "more", but I can't be certain. It definitely reads and sounds better, though.

I understand that it would cost a hefty amount to make your own basket but that could be said about almost any consumer product. Consumer prices are much higher than commercial prices. A ton of steel will run you around $800 and I know that there is a lot of labor and material involved in turning that into a basket but it seems like the prices are higher than the material and labor combined should be. I guess my hope was that with disc golf expanding there would be more production and price reduction...Also This

This seems like a great system of self-checks.

I feel compelled to point out that when you wrote rational you meant rationale. This is a good explanation of the difference. (i'm not trying to be a jerk, just a little OCD about words.)

There are probably plenty of other instances where a phrase is "technically correct" from a prescriptive standpoint, but is wrong from a descriptive point of view. But I wonder if some prescriptive grammar rules are created in response to these.

One example I can think of is something like this cropping up, where there might not have been a definitive "rule" for adjective order before. Violating this order simply "sounded wrong" to a native speaker, and the rule was created to quantify what sounded right.

Is there a prescriptive rule like this for the aformentioned types of contractions?

I guess I should have been more clear; I don't think this kind of thing should keep coming up.

It's like when someone walks into a movie that's halfway over and then complains about how the story doesn't make sense. People who actually played (and can still remember) the SC1 campaign would need to have a very poor sense of social relationships to be surprised that Raynor and Kerrigan got together at some point.

Also, here: implicit vs.explicit

The contract has a barrel and chamber? I just better load the contract.

LOL sorry I couldn't help being pedantic. Breech vs. Breech you know.

> A. I asked TWO questions

Keep asking questions - it's good for you.

> B. You spelled lightning wrong

It's spelled light*e*ning. Here is something that might help you.

Thanks for coming out chap.

Both are correct in their own contexts.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/advice-advise

In this context, "advise" (pronounced "advize") is incorrect.

e.g.: "I would advise you to heed good advice."

Actually, neither quite fits the title grammatically - but "little-known pieces of advice" would work.

> because of the shear number of amazing people working on them.

You had me for a moment there - that almost looks normal. Well anyway, I hope my comment doesn't raise any tension between us.

You meant to post this in /r/legaladvice. I'm just a bot, but in the future I would advi*se you to spell "advic*e" with a "c". (http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/advice-advise)