Let's help Dan_c00000 learn "then" vs "than"

[Conager]

PeDANts gotta pedant, so let's help him learn the rules so he doesn't look like an ignorant grammar nazi.

Than is for comparisons, then is for conditional statements, often involving a sequence or time. Let's see how he does:

SpearChucker set him off:

~snip~
Should you set their pay significantly higher, then most everybody above them
will also want a higher pay in order to reward their abilities, skills and education
in proper proportion.~snip~

PeDANtic Dan goes for the gotcha:

Should you set their pay significantly higher, then

When you're comparing things you use "than".

Ouch. Even if he failed to read the entire sentence, the comma should have told him that "significantly higher" was part of a seperate phrase than "then . . . ."

I tried to help him be a better pedant:

If you're going to be pendantic, it helps if you can actually read and comprehend compound sentences.

Then was 100% correct. It was an if/then sentence.

You cutting the sentence off shows either you were being a disingenuous prick, or you did not read the entire sentence.

Either way, feel free to apologize for being a pedantic prick.

Dan was not having it. He doubles down:

I don't know basic grammar so I used the word "prick" because I think I'm special.

~snip~Sadly he was comparing people who earn less with people who earn more. You use "than" try again.

I'm pretty sure that my using "prick" is not the result of a deficit of basic grammar knowledge. My use of prick was used both grammatically correctly and accurately.

If dan_c00000 had learned to read entire sentences for comprehension rather than word-by-word deconstruction, paying close attention to subordinate phrases, then he might not have made the error in how he parsed that sentence.

 

[Bas_van_Fraassen]

You go, girl!

 

[schism666]

diz iz seriouz bidniz

 

[Conager]

Perhaps some reformatting will help the myopic dan_c00000 see where he went wrong?

<if> you set their pay significantly higher,
then most everybody above them will also want a higher pay.

Substituting "if" for "should" to make it abundantly clear that this was a conditional statement with the classic if/then sort of structure.

Let's try it dan_c00000's way, shall we?

Should you set their pay significantly higher,
than most everybody above them will also want a higher pay.

Grates the "ear" don't it?

Indeed it do.

 

[Conager]

diz iz seriouz bidniz

better, luk. gaying up the emojis and spelling like a tween makes it look a lot less like your well-known chino merino alt, lol

 

[schism666]

better, luk. gaying up the emojis and spelling like a tween makes it look a lot less like your well-known chino merino alt, lol

so i am not rob this week?

 

[Heathers_Front]

Next queerbait will teach ishmael the correct time to use an apostrophe before an S.

 

[Conager]

so i am not rob this week?

you have never been rob. rob is self-evidently rob, luk is the one giving rob the reach-around. rob is the one never returning the favor, lol

this is rob:

Next queerbait will teach ishmael the correct time to use an apostrophe before an S.

I don't recall Ishmael ever correcting anyone's grammar. He seems to have other things that interest him to discuss.

Hey, you know what would be fun? How about you and luk share an alt again? That was fun trying to guess who was voicing it at what time

 

[schism666]

yep q is off his meds.

 

[RoryN]

I don't recall Ishmael ever correcting anyone's grammar.

That's because his grammar is shit.

But, of course, you won't make a thread about him because he's racist, like you are.

 

[Comshaw]

(snip)
I'm pretty sure that my using "prick" is not the result of a deficit of basic grammar knowledge. My use of prick was used both grammatically correctly and accurately.
(snip)

It is true that your assertion on your use of the term was grammatically correct and accurate. However it is also obvious the use of it was caused by an advanced case of Cranial Ischemia resulting in massive trauma to the substantia grisea caused by an anal sphincter restriction to the carotid artery. Perhaps if you had a cranial rectal extraction you might find others more apt to spend time in a discussion with you rather then in a contest of how far up the wall each can urinate. Just sayin'.



Comshaw

 

[Heathers_Front]

yep q is off his meds.

It's hard to imagine why his wife left him, isn't it?

 

[Bas_van_Fraassen]

That's because his grammar is shit.

But, of course, you won't make a thread about him because he's racist, like you are.

*chuckle*

 

[schism666]

It's hard to imagine why his wife left him, isn't it?

it's hard to imagine why someone would marry him in the first place

 

[Conager]

It is true that your assertion on your use of the term was grammatically correct and accurate. However it is also obvious the use of it was caused by an advanced case of Cranial Ischemia resulting in massive trauma to the substantia grisea caused by an anal sphincter restriction to the carotid artery. Perhaps if you had a cranial rectal extraction you might find others more apt to spend time in a discussion with you rather then in a contest of how far up the wall each can urinate. Just sayin'.



Comshaw

Let's review the progression of this pissing contest whereby the stupid prick was pissing into the wind, and I merely pointed it out:

Spearchucker made a perfectly valid point and expressed himself in a grammatically correct manner.

Dan the pedant jumped his grammar and was himself grammatically in error. Which I always find hilarious.

I make an extra effort to proofread my posts when I'm poking at someone's grammar. Something that I only do when they're in the habit of poking at people's grammar. Otherwise I read in context and allow for grammatical and spelling errors because those don't mean a damned thing in conversation.

You live by the sword of grammar, you should die an ignominious death by the sword of grammar.

I gave Dan the prick the opportunity to revisit his criticism. I didn't sincerely think the prick would apologize because he never does. . . because he's a prick.

The prick doubled down so I called him out on being not only a prick, but a stupid prick. Which seems perfectly reasonable to me.

 

[schism666]

it's hard to imagine why someone would marry him in the first place

Let's review the progression of this pissing contest whereby the stupid prick was pissing into the wind, and I merely pointed it out:

Spearchucker made a perfectly valid point and expressed himself in a grammatically correct manner.

Dan the pedant jumped his grammar and was himself grammatically in error. Which I always find hilarious.

I make an extra effort to proofread my posts when I'm poking at someone's grammar. Something that I only do when they're in the habit of poking at people's grammar. Otherwise I read in context and allow for grammatical and spelling errors because those don't mean a damned thing in conversation.

You live by the sword of grammar, you should die an ignominious death by the sword of grammar.

I gave Dan the prick the opportunity to revisit his criticism. I didn't sincerely think the prick would apologize because he never does. . . because he's a prick.

The prick doubled down so I called him out on being not only a prick, but a stupid prick. Which seems perfectly reasonable to me.

i rest my case *

 

[Conager]

That's because his grammar is shit.

But, of course, you won't make a thread about him because he's racist, like you are.

Actual racist says, what?

My wish for you, as always, is it at some point in your life you will run into someone as virulently racist as you are and finally reap the consequences of your racist worldview.

 

[Conager]

it's hard to imagine why someone would marry him in the first place

"Well I'm not going to show you my dick." Sam Elliot as Wade Garrett in Roadhouse

It is not difficult at all to imagine why no one ever wanted to marry you, much less bear your children.

 

[schism666]

"Well I'm not going to show you my dick." Sam Elliot as Wade Garrett in Roadhouse

It is not difficult at all to imagine why no one ever wanted to marry you, much less bear your children.

i'll let my wife know you said hello

 

[Conager]

Next queerbait will teach ishmael the correct time to use an apostrophe before an S.

That's because his grammar is shit.

. . .but let's go ahead and review Rob's flawed premise and your support for that unsupportable premise.

The two instances are not analogous.*

This thread is more about peDANts problem with reading comprehension than his lack of education on the grammatically correct uses of then vs than. He more or less defined corectly when to use than. He simply misapplied the rule -as he had just defined it-

THAT was what made it worth pointing out. Grammar nazi's (heh) should always take care to be correct, or risk the face-plant you see here. I notice none of you naysayers are I suggesting that he was correct to jump SpearChucker. Why is that?

To review: this thread is about someone being a failed grammar nazi, not someone making grammatical errors.

*have your "two college educated friends" explain how analogies work and then to help you understand when something is analogous to something else.

 

[Conager]

i'll let my wife know you said hello

Why stop at suddenly having a never-before-mentioned virtual wifey? Why not throw in a random, sometimes varying number of virtual kids and move to Canada, SkiddlesDownSouth-style?

 

[Rightguide]

better, luk. gaying up the emojis and spelling like a tween makes it look a lot less like your well-known chino merino alt, lol

If Luk is twixt and tween the two he could be Taint , no?

 

[dolf]

You made a thread about this...

 

[Conager]

It seemed VERY important to peDANti_C00000 that he incorrectly correct someone's grammar. I thought I would help him be all the peDANt he can be.

 

[SpeareChucker]

lol...



What was I comparing again?