Zergrinch

I am happy to see it exPUNged from the record.

I'm sorry, sir, but that joke was a little PUNgent.

Exactly. Bad puns need to be pun-ished.

I was going to tell a joke about a 5ft (153 cm) dead guy but realized my delivery would be a little stiff. 

What's that old saying? "A man that will pun will pick a pocket!"

So by implication, medically-necessary nudity is inappropriate?

D'Narenth turns to Abram and asks, "It seemed to be obvious, earlier, that this Tiefling did not speak any of the languages we know, yet... What language did you just hear from him? It must be one that you know. Else why would you signal me to follow you?"

Sooo... like this then?
 

Sooo... like this then?
 

Thats pretty acurate

Must... resist temptation... to add... commas... and... full stops...

Yep, it is great fun dissecting people's posts and trying to decipher whether they meant to use the or rho!
 
Also, an ellipsis only has three periods, while your ellipses have four!  And!  No space between the extra period and the word "just"!  And! Since it is a new idea, it should have come after a semicolon or be a separate sentence, in which case the "j" should be capitalized!
 
I trust that this should establish my credentials as an evil nitpicker, hehehehe!

I shall defer to you in the field of prose and writing style, inasmuch as my style is quite dry and devoid of wit.
My obsessiveness, however, requires me to point out that you have placed an extraneous space before your semicolon. Mwa ha ha ha ha!

Ah, but while yes, the two "thats" are strictly not needed to properly parse the aforementioned statements and therefore can technically be considered extraneous, their inclusion is still grammatically apropos, wouldn't you agree?

P.S.: I have another flaw: I am quite fond of utilizing flowery and Brobdingnagian words if afforded the opportunity.

Zergrinch, you think you are bad, in the last paragraph of your post above, I would have you delete two "that's" which are not needed.

Hi folks.  Despite my 543 posts, you probably don't know me because majority of my posts have been to flood the Play by Post Forums.  I play a bard there and like to murder popular songs with repurposed lyrics.  It is my fond hope to someday kill a monster in that game through insults alone.
 
I daresay I am probably one of the biggest passive-aggressive nitpickers and perfectionists with OCD you will ever see.  I have been known to edit my posts that have an errant comma or period, for example. 
 
I also have no doubt that should I branch out more, I may be able to give the resident energizer bunny a run for his money!
 
So that we can return to our regularly-scheduled topic about coffee and mocca, I will say that while I love the smell of coffee, I have no tolerance for caffeine. So the next best thing is to nurse a bubble milk tea with chewy tapioca balls, which may or may not cointain chemicals that shorten your lifespan, but hey, better die happy right?

Don't be so hard on yourself. That is a really difficult thing to do. Especially when there is no definitive age for the youngster and his vocabulary. SO it would be natural to talk to his chronological age or even above it. That would be normal. The difficult part would be in your proof reading, recognizing it and adding a puzzled or blank look and then explaining it to his level. Doing it that way would draw emphasis to his diminished capacity. Thus building a stronger character.
 
That would be a very difficult character to write consistently for even the most seasoned author. The fact that you spotted it means you can rework it. Writing is a growth activity. The more you do it the better you get. If you look at mine you can see a vast difference from when I started to what I write now. I feel no shame or embarrassment over my earlier works. They were still good stories even if they could be much better written. I write because I love to tell stories that move people's emotions and give them hope. I write because I love to create a person and give them life and then tell their stories. Am I even close to proficient? Not even close. It's enjoyable and a meaningful escape. I'm not judged by it. The story may stand in judgement, but not the author.
 
If writing is something you enjoy doing then "do it". Comments are nice, especially when someone is touched by something I wrote, but I write for me first, the readers second. I've only had one hate comment and that was over the loss in one of my stories. I didn't plan it it just sorta happened. But I explained it and they either read on or didn't, I don't know. But I learned that not everybody will like what I've written. For many it has too much sex, for others, not enough. I write for me. Others likes or dislikes are superfluous.

Though frail and easily sundered
As the wings of butterflies
     There's nothing quite as powerful
When fervid faith arises
     Your prose speaks but the truth
Safeguard that faith from harm.
     A simple flap of butterfly wings
Can stir up quite a storm.

Though frail and easily sundered
As the wings of butterflies
     There's nothing quite as powerful
When fervid faith arises
     Your prose speaks but the truth
Safeguard that faith from harm.
     A simple flap of butterfly wings
Can stir up quite a storm.

ISIL will win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.

ISIL will win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.