Seriously guys, we try to be a bastion of proper use of the English language yet one subforum's description looks like it was written by Jaden Smith.The Place Where Bad Threads Go To Die.
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Metruption
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Change the desc of the Hel subforum
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HarryDresden
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
How can words exist if language doesn't exist?
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TeckXKnight
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
That sentence is perfectly acceptable within all forms of grammatical rules in American and British English, so what's the problem?
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Metruption
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
When You Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word Your Writing Looks Like Shit
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
TPWBTGTD as an inside joke? 
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TeckXKnight
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
That's how you title things. With a few exceptions, such as words like 'the' and 'of' which can be left lowercase unless they're the first word in a sentence.Metruption wrote:When You Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word Your Writing Looks Like Shit
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Metruption
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
The "How do I?" subforum has the description
You're actually missing an oxford comma. It should be changed to
Why isn't it "Ask, Answer And Discuss Any And All Topics About The Hows, Whys, Wheres And Whens Of Playing Haven & Hearth."Ask, answer and discuss any and all topics about the hows, whys, wheres and whens of playing Haven & Hearth.
You're actually missing an oxford comma. It should be changed to
Ask, answer and discuss any and all topics about the hows, whys, wheres, and whens of playing Haven & Hearth.
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
Giving this thread a good home.
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TeckXKnight
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Re: Change the desc of the Hel subforum
That's also not how the oxford comma is used. The oxford comma is used to differentiate different actions, individuals, etc. when ascribing specific aspects to them. Given how English is, both usages work just fine though. The point of grammar is clarity, so ultimately if you can read a sentence and get the full meaning out of it without struggling along the way, then it is probably a grammatically correct sentence. It may not prescribe to the set of grammatical rules your teachers or the internet have taught you, hell it can actively go against them, but if it reads well then it's a good sentence.