Aetolian Game News
An response to your article
Written by: Great Pine Maakhanst, Crusader Against Boredom
Date: Wednesday, February 18th, 2004
Addressed to: High Prince of Ulangi, Nighty Nightshadow Thalion, Conflagration's Wrath
What do you think we is, Nightshadow, grammar illiterate? We aetolians
don't need to be bothered by useless lecturing posts like yours. Most of
the population does passed their grammar tests at school. In this age,
our cities are generally full of people whom like to have correct and
proper grammar in all that they write. They don't need no lectures from
you to teach them what they already know. The guild scholars of Sapience
doesn't need you to tell us to reorder how we write, either!
When training, grammatical errors are reduced. Good guild scholars know
how to write properly and quite well, writing is their job. Because they
must be trained and checked in writing before becoming acutal scholars,
one would think that they are well-trained enough in the art of writing
not to need you to tell them how to write for you are just a citizen who
knows little about writing and has little grammatic authority. Really,
they very good.
Xorani Horkvals Humans Grooks Kelkis and Dwarves alike don't need you to
tell them how to edit papers reports and messages properly. It is
utterly ridiculous to think that they, might make all those simple
errors in composing messages. We dont enjoy you treating us like fifth
grader's. There is no need to talk to us like we are small chldrn. In my
opinion, any writer who more than two of those rules in one piece is a
disgrace. If all twenty were to terribly be broken in one piece, that
writer could be regarded as a grammatical abomination.
Furthermore, posting your disgusting rules on the Public news board was
doing something you did not need to. As I humbly and calmly near the
decent closure and exiting of this small piece I wonder ponderously
whether some of Nightshadow's small and useless rules might be
intentionally, purposefully, and truthfully broken, destroyed, and
obliterated for certain precise, exact purposes. However, thinking about
this is something to do another time. In closing, the world was fine and
dandy before you came along to instruct it in grammar lessons,
Nightshadow, and it does not need you to attempt to fog it further in a
torrent of mixed metaphors and clever satirical writings, for as was
mentioned earlier, we did pass our grammatical tests with flying colors.
-Great Pine Maakhanst, Crusader Against Boredom
P.S. I hope most of you managed to catch my satire above. If you didn't
get it, look at my first sentence and Nightshadow's first rule, my
second sentence and Nightshadow's second rule...
Penned by my hand on the 24th of Variach, in the year 122 MA.