What does pep mean?

Quite.

Just watched "The #1 Ladies Detective Agency" Wickedly Brilliant.
I'm not a clique. No one loves me. No one likes me. Boo hoo.
Isn't this thread amazingly retro? Its going absolutely nowhere and then when Pep wakes up he gets all smarty pants and snipes back. This is how wars start me reckons!
And I love the ones that go "you really should meet Pep. I met him once and he changed my life."

oh, how very interesting.

ok

And congratulations on the wedding!

If you drink too much water you can drown. That's true. Jig.

Are you kidding? We have something in common?

I'm a huge BMW fan myself

Got an E34 that I restored to mint condition myself.

Oh God. Boyz n' toyz.
BooooooRING!!!

Sorry!

Although I do see an ever growing female presence on the shows I visit around Europe, that show off their car and actively participate in the scene, rather than just following husband/boyfriend.

A welcome sight in my opinion.

NO WAY!! There is NOTHING sexier than a hot guy in a hot car that he's totally proud of--they (guys, not the cars) just ooze confidence.

So what happened in this thread besides a couple of sexually frustrated housewives masaging the weird proof reader guy's ego?

Can anyone give me the highlights?

Oh, there were a couple of posts pointing out the indolence of certain forum participants who were incapable of reading a thread competently and failed to show other readers the courtesy of spell-checking their posts so that mis-spellings such as "masaging" slipped through as implicit insults.

Pep (Such as the post quoted above.)

I'm not a fan. I just want a box that starts and stops reliably and in between gets me to where I want to be while playing loud music from the in-car jukebox.

Pep (Work on a car? Isn't that what you pay people to do? )

Sorry, has Arielyn's confirmation of my version of things highlighted your willingness to lie through your teeth?

Pep (I am sure readers will make their own minds up about how much to trust the accuracy and veracity of your posts henceforth, assuming you have the gall to make any. )

That's why I never dilute whisky . . .

Pep ( . . . or whiskey )

No, *most* people are just too polite to tell you the truth, and probably ignore your posts.


What a shame you are clinging to your misconceptions.

Pep (Does your browser not at least have an English spell-checker?)

Do you ever get bored of repeating that same post?

If I'm included in that I guess I'll just be glad you didn't pull the alt or guy card. Points for creativity.

Not too many other highlights...and I am shocked it's still going. I'm sure Pep is finding it all extremely amusing

Here is the dictionary definition:

Pep
noun:
1. A captious individual who cannot resist the urge to correct a spelling and/or grammar mistakes even in informal settings. After pointing out the linguistic shortcomings in others, a Pep feels a strange sense of twisted and unconstructive intelligentsia delight.

In reality, they are making someone else feel bad for no reason and unintentionally implying that their "superior" grammar skills are all they have to show for a wasted liberal arts education.

While proper grammar usage is all well and good, a Pep cavils even insignificant errors in English to somehow win an argument. Of course, rather than being genuinely persuasive in an argument, pointing out English errors is a weak attack only on the typist's credibility and never has any bearing on the underlying premises and assertions therein. In other words, this is simply a disguised ad hominem argument which intelligent and logical people disregard.

2. A generic internet sphincter who proofreads dictionaries for fun, also known as a Grammar Nazi. All forums and message boards have at least one of them. Nobody actually likes them, but tend to tolerate them nonetheless out of disinterest in actually trying to reason with them and the dull exchange of irrelevant monologue that will likely ensue afterwards as a result of giving them the attention they crave.

3. Slang: a testis

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Shakespeare: What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!

Pep: Speak in complete sentences, you idiot.

Shakespeare: The ability to communicate both colorfully and effectively is much more admirable then perfect grammar so stop sucking Webster's bell end, you Grammar Nazi.

You're doing ok Benski - I was only trying to remind Pep that whatever level your English is at - it is a darn sight better than his or my Dutch!

After all - if you are learning a foreign language and you wait until you are grammatically perfect before you speak or write, then you will never open your mouth or put hands to the keyboard! ... and isn't SL a great place to improve your language skills?

I agree with you Benski and think your English is sufficient. I get what you're saying most of the time and it's nice to see you don't let the criticism get you down. As a crappy speller myself I can produce and read nearly every version of misspelling. Keep chuggin'

You said a mouthful right there.

An interesting quality of English-speaking Dutch people is the way you pick up very accurate accents depending on where the language was learned. I know quite a few people who speak English as a foreign language and almost without exception the Dutch have had to explain that to me at some point. Otherwise, I just hear strong Irish, Scottish, English and sometimes American accents.

Dutch even sounds quite similar to English in passing: the babble on a street or in a bar in either country sounds very much the same to me - until I try to follow the conversation of course.

That said, I had to watch 'The Black Book' in the original Dutch with Turkish subtitles recently and I was surprised to find how much of the soundtrack somehow made sense to me.

I'm sorry it's not sunny for you Jig. Shame you can't send some of the rain here then I won't need to wash the car. I could just leave it out in the rain and then that would wash all the dead flies from yesterday's drive off it.

Please don't expect much of me for the next couple of weeks - it's Wimbledon - but good luck with the tomatoes.

Yes - I agree. Many of my Dutch colleages sound American when the speak English and the Scottish seems to come from the Dutch "g" and "ch" sound - which are both like the "ch" in loch. Dutch has a lot of French words too - and so has English. If you really appreciate language, then you notice all these things.

Do you get bored of repeating the same irrelevant questions based on the same misperceptions.

Pep (Apparently not. )

I recognise that, but I don't go annoying native Dutch speakers by posting garbled nonsense on Dutch forums.


I agree that SL inworld might be, if you find the right sympathetic crowd, but these forums are *not* the place to obtain free language lessons. I have already offered to provide private lessons at commercial rates . . . .

Pep ( . . . but for some reason no-one has seemed inclined to take up my offer. )

I prefer a guy in an Armani suit with a cool ties and a fat wallet. THAT"s confidence.