User blog comment:G0LD3NF1RE/Dawnguard encounters issues with Playstation/@comment-81.164.149.6-20120908172034/@comment-3397532-20120910064448

@The Iron Draugr

This is enjoyable, it's not often that I come across a decent opponent to have a word-war with (at least it is on the internet), so I take my hat off to you ;)


 * 1.) Indeed, I did start a sentence with a "But", which you are correct in saying is a big no-no in grammar. However, as you stated, the "..." thing does actually have relevance in modern English (it can be seen in officially published comics, games and even books nowadays) and has the same sort of effect as a semicolon, or say a hyphen, at least in my example. You do raise a valid point though about starting a sentence with the word "But", but if you do replace the "..." with one of the aforementioned punctuation marks, the sentence does make grammatical sense in the English language.


 * 2.) Does it matter if simply, "Iron Draugr", isn't the correct title? It still makes perfect grammatical sense (not using the "The", I mean), and this discussion was originally about grammar, not about calling people by their correct usernames. Even if I called you, say, "Fluffy Bumpkins", it would have made perfect grammatical sense.


 * 3.) My intention was never to write my response in the style of a letter. I simply used the word, "Dear", to sound condescending - for which I do apologise, as it was slightly mean on my behalf. I used the colon simply to indicate the existence of the list that followed.


 * 4.) Nope, I didn't in fact mean, "...one type of person...", I meant exactly what I wrote. Where I come from, we use, "One person", far more often than, "One type of person", but obviously sentence construction differs between different English speaking societies.


 * 5.) I'd like to apologise for calling you a hypocrite; what I really meant was that it was ironic that you corrected someone else's mistakes, when you made similar mistakes in your own correction.


 * 6.) This has been a very interesting discussion, and if you wish to continue, I would ask that you do so on my Talk Page, so that other users can't join in quite so easily :)

@The Joker~


 * Do you seriously have to voice your opinion on everybody else's discussions? I'm not necessarily hating on you bro, but many users find that clogging up the RA feed with multiple, pointless blog-comments annoying, but I'm sure you'd know about that already...


 * Also, please don't think I'm saying this just because you sided with The Iron Draugr, it's just that I've wanted to get that off my chest for a while now, and this seemed like the opportune moment.

@Jonesy95


 * This isn't a flame war: both parties are using polite language and we're sharing our thoughts in a (relatively) friendly way. If, say, we were swearing and using invalid, unproven points, then it could be considered a flame war.

Thanks for listening to my views everybody, Celanawe :)