Anglo-centrism at it's finest.

"Neanderthal" should always be capitalized, you're missing a period at the end, and there should be a comma. Not sure where though. Should the title be "Use proper English please, you Neanderthals." or my preference, "Use proper English, please your Neanderthals."?

Your preference has a comma splice in it. Also I see no grammatical reason for "neanderthal" to be capitalized. Is that just some weird isolated convention?

I've never heard of comma splices before, and looking it up, some people seem to think it's okay. Is that really invalid, or just another fake rule like "never end on a preposition"? I think the capitalization is because "Neanderthal" is short for the full term "the Neanderthal man," which was named after a place in Germany.

It's a pretty real rule, and since it's exclusively for written English, I have no issue being prescriptivist about it. Sentences are sentences.

As for Neanderthal, I guess that makes sense, but it's now the official name for a species, so I feel like it shouldn't get to be a proper noun anymore.

Discussion about capitalisation of Neanderthal and comma splice but no mention of the word 'wanna'. Interesting.

I'm more concerned that PE seems to know my exact driving license registration number ...... it is D0UN33DH31PBR4H
That has me worried, am I being watched?

Je parle comme je veux, je m'en fous

I love Italian....

lol thucy butt posted

I don't think that's a comma splice, since "you Neanderthals" is intended as an address and "please" is a parenthetical element. It's missing a(n appositive(?)) comma. The title should be: "Use proper English, please, you Neanderthals." It's still not a pretty sentence, though, and the elements should be reversed: "Please, you Neanderthals, use proper English."

"As this is an English language website can we not all try and spell the words correctly"
should be written this way:
As this is an English language website, can we not all try and spell the words correctly?

Also:
"if you wanna use it then don't abuse it".
The first "i" should be capitalized, there ought to be a period/full stop at the end of the sentence, and I believe there ought to be a comma after the first "it."

That said, I assume the irony was intended, and I do find it pretty funny. :)

Okay this thread is funny, since Nigee's post is actually asking people to spell words wrong.

In order to ask for correct spelling the sentence would need the "not" removed to make it:

"As this is an English language website can we all try and spell the words correctly"

As it stands, the not is asking for people to not try and spell words correctly.

Additionally an ellipse has 3 dots, not 4, the grammar is terrible, and the actual title is mess. Surprised anyone took this thread seriously.

@ck, the original sentence was fine (regarding comma splice, at least). It was when ljt suggested an alternative that a comma splice was introduced.

@jmo, somebody took it seriously?

Is it official now that it was funny .... Jumbo has spoken :-)

Rather than a Reliability Rating we could have a Levity Rating for Forum posts, we could have marks out of 100 on the Jumbometer
It's been warned to behave on the forum but you can't get a good Admin down :-)

ghug, I think the suggested preference is not technically a comma splice either, though I'll defer to someone with more expertise. A comma splice incorrectly links two independent clauses. That's not the case here, unless "please" is being used as a verb.

Indeed it is being used as a verb. That's the joke.

From his preference: "Use proper English, please your Neanderthals." He added an 'r' to you, making it so please is an imperative verb with an object of your Neanderthals. So, it's absolutely a comma splice. I think it's really funny how it implies that proper English is what pleases Neanderthals.

Or "joke."

Am I the only one who bases year 1 alliances on how good the opponent's English is?

Wait, only on how good the English is? Probably not, though I'd advise against it. You should base it on how credible the offers you receive are, and also, I'm not entirely sold on the first year alliance concept. Locks too many doors too quickly.

Hola, yo hablo ingles pero mi lengua natural es la española. Le voy a poner toda la onda para poder comunicarme bien con todos. Espero nadie se enoje si le erro a las palabras en ingles. Saludos!

Dobbiamo parlare italiano, perche e la lingua piu bella. Inoltre, forse Nigee non capisce italiano.

Haha. It's not the only think I base it on. But if I was given these two messages,

Hey! Do you want to work together against Germany?
hey do you want to work against germany

I would be much more inclined to work with the former.

O como dirían los assholes de por acá: por que no van y chingan a su madre con su fucking english?

I came to dance, dance, dance, dance
I hit the floor 'cause that's my plance, plance, plance, plance
I'm wearing all my favorite brance, brance, brance, brance
Give me some space for both my hance, hance, hance, hance