iPod touch My ipod is locked in a vault untill

[davidy]

tell me when the forums started to require perfect grammar? this is NOT a professional setting. that has its time and place for me and frankly, it's not here

wise up and stop being so anal over things that dont matter....

last i checked:
i graduated hs (valedictorian)
i graduated college (summa cum laude in mechanical engineering)
i got a career

who are you to judge me or any other on this board? you have no knowledge of us or our background

Perfect grammar isn't required here, or anywhere else for that matter. However, if your grammar and spelling points to your being illiterate or extremely lazy, then who are you to tell me that I can't use your presentation to form a judgement about you. Let's hope your career doesn't require written communication, or if it does, that you do a lot better than you've done here.

Maybe you can answer this - why do you think that communication doesn't require standard conventions? Why is it okay to take shortcuts with your spelling and sentence structure? Is it really too much of a burden to capitalize the first word of your sentences? Is it really too much of a burden to capitalize the first person singular pronoun? Is it really too much of a burden to use apostrophes, commas and periods? Is it really too much of a burden to put a "from" after graduated? What do you really save by ignoring those things?

Since you have graduated from college and are working, I'm assuming you're an adult. You'll go a lot further if you act and communicate like an adult, instead of a pre-teen.

 

[davidy]

Actually if u don't give it up then u get written up(referral) and get sent to the office where they make u give it up i think.

You could run home and ask your mommy to get it back for you, or you can suck it up and take what life gives you. You screwed up; maybe you've learned this time.

 

[dukebound85]

Perfect grammar isn't required here, or anywhere else for that matter. However, if your grammar and spelling points to your being illiterate or extremely lazy, then who are you to tell me that I can't use your presentation to form a judgement about you. Let's hope your career doesn't require written communication, or if it does, that you do a lot better than you've done here.

Maybe you can answer this - why do you think that communication doesn't require standard conventions? Why is it okay to take shortcuts with your spelling and sentence structure? Is it really too much of a burden to capitalize the first word of your sentences? Is it really too much of a burden to capitalize the first person singular pronoun? Is it really too much of a burden to use apostrophes, commas and periods? Is it really too much of a burden to put a "from" in front of graduated? What do you really save by ignoring those things?

Since you have graduated from college and are working, I'm assuming you're an adult. You'll go a lot further if you act and communicate like an adult, instead of a pre-teen.

as i said, forums are NOT a professional arena . try to understand that

and yes, perfect grammar is required in professional settings. to say it isnt required anywhere is ignorant. i choose when i want to be informal and formal when it comes to typing depending on the setting and you know what? forums are very informal for me and ill treat them as such

if there is one thing that distracts from the purpose of a forum, it is grammar nazis.....

 

[-Dark Angel-]

Unfortunately to say it to you, you did get what you deserved,

Whaaat?! If this person hasn't learned by now, they'll never learn. What they deserve is to see their iPod get smashed right in front of their eyes. Thats what I like to do to that ipod right now.

 

[teleromeo]

If I was that kids father I would go to school to get it and keep the iPod in my vault until the end of the academic year.

 

[Ivan P]

as i said, forums are NOT a professional arena . try to understand that

and yes, perfect grammar is required in professional settings. to say it isnt required anywhere is ignorant. i choose when i want to be informal and formal when it comes to typing depending on the setting and you know what? forums are very informal for me and ill treat them as such

if there is one thing that distracts from the purpose of a forum, it is grammar nazis.....

I hope you don't mind me giving my opinion. I agree that grammar isn't an integral part of the way this forum works. I don't mind things like 'your' instead of 'you're', 'their'/'they're'/'there', etc. However, if it gets to the point where a sentence is near or totally illegible, as is the case with a few of the OP's posts, then it does get rather irritating.

 

[arkitect]

forums are very informal for me and ill treat them as such

Why would you want to ill treat them?



Just making a point…

 

[A N G E L]

Whaaat?! If this person hasn't learned by now, they'll never learn. What they deserve is to see their iPod get smashed right in front of their eyes. Thats what I like to do to that ipod right now.

Well I'd rather think he'd just get it taken away for a long time, not smashed, lmao.

Then again, you are the Dark Angel. =P

 

[Funplex]

You could run home and ask your mommy to get it back for you, or you can suck it up and take what life gives you. You screwed up; maybe you've learned this time.

If memory serves, his mother already said she won't get it for him.

 

[-Dark Angel-]

Well I'd rather think he'd just get it taken away for a long time, not smashed, lmao.

Then again, you are the Dark Angel. =P

True, you can give them hope by letting them think they have a chance of getting it back, I'll smash all hope to give an equal balance

 

[thegoldenmackid]

There are reasons why some of the younger members of this forum refuse to acknowledge their age very often. It is for reasons like this where people of our generation to stupid things and then make it worse by complaining. We really are turning into the generation of whiners and it pains me to say that. With that said never had my old phone(s), iPod(s) or iPhone taken away during school, maybe you should have learned the first or second time.

You still have study halls lol i haven't had study hall since elementary school. It appears that all u guys r straight "A" suck up students that never get in trouble. Gotta live sometime .

Not true, some of us know however that "living" has rules and there are some rules that aren't worth breaking because you think you can.

 

[nick9191]

I always listen to music in class (whilst working). Its the only thing keeping me from shooting my teacher as he rambles on about stuff unrelated to the work.

 

[arkitect]

With that said never had my old phone(s), iPod(s) or iPhone taken away during school, maybe you should have learned the first or second time.

Phones at school?

We weren't even allowed calculators…


Ah those were the days.

 

[jrok18]

Actually i talked my mom into getting it back and as i talk shes getting it now. My administrator is gonna be like your back again MRS...... haven't your son learned his lesson or some **** like that.

 

[mixmacface]

Moral of the story: You got what you deserved.

this quote reminded me of something. . .

Yakko: well, it's that time again.
Dot: To make fun of the Disney channel?
Wakko: To make the Fox censors cry?
Yakko: No, no, no. It's time for the wheel of morality!
[spins wheel] Wheel of morality, turn, turn turn; Tell us the lesson that we should learn
[wheel stops on lesson 1]
Yakko: Lesson number one, and the moral of today's story is:
"If you can't say anything nice, you're probably on an internet message board."
Wakko: Well, I'm touched.
Dot: In the head.
[whistle blows]
Yakko, Wakko, Dot: Yikes!
[all 3 run away; ralph the security guard comes, and chases them off]
[ending music/credits]


sorry, i just couldn't resist.

 

[JimmyDThing]

I always pay attenion in the main classes(english, oceanology ) Bc those r the ones i need to pass. But other then them 2 i have all easy classes(tech ed,cooking , gym times 2) This is my senior year baby!!!! which sucks.

What sucks is the fact that you're a senior in high school and by reading your post, one would think you were 12 or 13.

You're smart enough to multi-quote and respond (albeit with poor grammar and spelling)... which is something a lot of very intelligent older people have trouble doing. You can figure this out because you grew up with computers and because you care to learn how. The only reason you have trouble in school is because you're lazy. While you're in school, be concerned with school. Leave your iPod at home or in your locker for after school. Study, read, and learn to communicate or you will get lost in the already far too large sea of adults who can't communicate effectively and blame it on everyone else.

I'm 23, I was in high school not that long ago, so I can relate to being young and wanting to have fun while you are... but I had a better work ethic in the 5th grade than you apparently do. I don't understand why it seems like kids either care too much about their education, or don't at all. It's really a frightening trend. Every year it seems to be worse than the last and nobody seems to give a damn.

 

[JimmyDThing]

as i said, forums are NOT a professional arena . try to understand that

and yes, perfect grammar is required in professional settings. to say it isnt required anywhere is ignorant. i choose when i want to be informal and formal when it comes to typing depending on the setting and you know what? forums are very informal for me and ill treat them as such

if there is one thing that distracts from the purpose of a forum, it is grammar nazis.....

It has nothing to do with perfect grammar or not. You will rarely see anyone put up a fuss in posts with technically improper grammar as long as it is easy to read and understand.

The problem is communication. You need to have SOME standards in order to effectively convey what it is you are thinking, and that doesn't seem to be the case with many many posters.

 

[Jeremy1026]

I spent much of my senior year in detention. I used my PSP to take notes, and would happen across a game now and again . So I'd get my PSP taken away for the day, got it back at the end of the day, spent my 3 days in detention (while using it to watch movies.) Ahh, the good ole' days.

 

[thegoldenmackid]

Actually i talked my mom into getting it back and as i talk shes getting it now. My administrator is gonna be like your back again MRS...... haven't your son learned his lesson or some **** like that.

And you started this thread why again?

 

[beeh]

O and were reading a book in English called Beowulf and were like 2 in a half weeks in it and i had a quiz . I didn't know anything so i got a E lol . All i new was that there was a guy named beowulf in the book.

Why didn't you just download one ( or all ) of the Beowulf movies to your Touch and watch them, you would have probably gotten 75% of the test right...

Just make sure you don't goof off in college, find something you like and stick with it and work hard, you'll be happier in the long run. ( Beats flipping burgers ).

 

[MattZani]

I Own an iPod Touch and iPhone, an took my iPod Touch to school for 8 months, and my iPhone for a week, neither have been confiscated, in school my teachers engage me, involving every student with the work, because im top set, there to learn.

So either, your a dumb****, or you go to a **** school (Or both)

Either way, if you wanna use your Touch, quit school, sit on it all day.

 

[Pixellated]

I Own an iPod Touch and iPhone, an took my iPod Touch to school for 8 months, and my iPhone for a week, neither have been confiscated, in school my teachers engage me, involving every student with the work, because i'm top set, there to learn.

So either, your a dumb****, or you go to a **** school (Or both).

+1. Couldn't have stated it better.

 

[freeme007]

Dude, your life is not over! you never know what will happen later on in your life. Just Do it!

 

[quick5pnt0]

Actually i talked my mom into getting it back and as i talk shes getting it now. My administrator is gonna be like your back again MRS...... haven't your son learned his lesson or some **** like that.

Did she get it back? Did you finally learn your lesson?

 

[A N G E L]

Can't this thread just get locked already?

The kid ended up getting his iPod back, and hopefully he won't do it again. If he makes another thread, the users might just flame him. This thread is getting old.