FILM IS NOT ART PART DEUX

[Kev Owens]

It's a great place for people to exchange their views and opinions on the art (yes chance the ART) of filmmaking.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not trying to 'flame' (netiquette my arse!), but JB, please take some of your own advice:

I can't believe this debate is still going on. If Chance doesn't think film is art, who cares? The man's entitled to his own opinion.

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[Chance1234]

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if you're going to call yourself a writer

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where did that come from ? bad netiquette to pick up on someone spelling in a forum btw,

[Chance1234]

picture the scence, Jb frantically searches the archive for the look out of evidence !

meanwhile Chance heads down the pub.

[jb_617]

Originally posted by Chance1234:
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if you're going to call yourself a writer

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where did that come from ? bad netiquette to pick up on someone spelling in a forum btw,</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It drives me INSANE to see the English language being abused. I don?t care who made up ?Netiquette?; I will not let it slide. I?m making a stand here; I?m drawing a line in the sand! If you want to be taken seriously in whatever you do, then you must be able to communicate effectively. If someone sends me a script or a proposal or a treatment that is riddled with spelling or grammatical error I throw it away and tell him or her to try again. The illiterate will not dictate to me. Sure, the odd mistake is normal, especially when typing, I make them myself, and you can probably find a lot of examples in this forum alone. But to write:

?If thats all you know then don't play with the big boy's go away and come back when you have taken the stabilisers off your bike.?

Then I sure as hell am going to pick you up on it. If you?re going to insult me then do it in a language that I can understand. What you wrote is not even a sentence! It has only a passing resemblance to English.

And, by the way, since you?re such a fan of netiquette try this:

?Re-read and edit your posting carefully before you post.
Check the spelling and grammar.?

It?s from the USENET guidelines for netiquette. So, in fact, you broke the rules first. I will allow, however, that the fool who wrote the guidelines does not know the basic rules of grammar either. There are two mistakes in the first sentence that I quoted above. Not picking people up on bad English; and I mean this ONLY to people who use it as a first language as I know you do; (don?t flame me about picking on people with English as a second or other language) is a weak excuse to be lazy.


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That whirring noise you can hear is Strunk getting up to 7200 r.p.m.

[jb_617]

Damn, they've found me out. Thanks for the lesson in humility Kev; I really can be an arse sometimes, can't I?

In my defence though, I think I did post somewhere that I reserve the right to contradict myself, change my mind, and make no sense.


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I think I'll paint a big target on my chest.

[Chance1234]

then taking you up on that, i wont mention Middle english and smack you in the face with a cold cod for the shakespeare reference.

[jb_617]

Middle English? What the hell are you talking about? And, what's wrong with naming Shakespeare as one of the greatest exponents of the English language?


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I worry sometimes, I really do.

[Chance1234]

King Stephne to Englalande com, a macod he his gadering ?t Oxeneford and ar he nam e biscop Roger of Sereberi, and Alexander Biscop of Lincol and te Canceler Roger, hise neves, and dide ?lle in prisun til hi iafen up here castles.... I ne can ne I ne mai tellen alle e wunder, ne alle e pines at hi diden wrecce men on is lande; and at lastede a XIX wintre wile Stephne was king, and ?vre it was werse and werse.

[eidde]

wot chaucer 2 ?

[Chance1234]

heres another bit of middle english, which is not to disimilar to how i sound after a night out

Al nist by e rose, rose
Al nist bi the rose I lay;
Darf ich noust e rose stele . . Ant 3et Ich bar e flour away.