What a shame; the idea of doing such a crime is Preposterous! Does historical significance have any meaning to people these days, or is it all about the money?! Money comes and goes, people come and go, but history stays until it is deleted, which then it never comes back again....
You're right, Oddball. We really should stop demolishing things that have any historical interest. While we are at it, stop throwing out pocket trash, somebody wants to collect that.
Also, preposterous is not a proper noun, not sure why you capitalized it other than you just learned how to spell it and are using it in situations that aren't quite appropriate for its usage.
Alright, what's up your ass grammar nazi? Unless you see a Justified reason for demolishing a Significant historical Structure for an apartment complex? Pocket Trash isn't in any way historically important... a collection is different Than a historical piece.
Preposterous was capitalized to express the severity of the circumstance, so yes.... that is an appropraite usage for it.
No need to bring profanity into this. I am being a grammar nazi because you are trying to sound intelligent by using big words that you can't use correctly.
Pocket trash IS historically important. As is all trash. Just because it is not pretty and interesting to you, does not mean it is garbage. You want we should save everything? Not demolish any buildings? Or just the ones you like?
If you want to emphasize a word, use it correctly. The whole point of big words is so you use them in specific circumstances.
If you were to say "The idea that a cheap apartment complex has more value to society than a historical landmark is preposterous" It would be a more correct use of the word. If you wish to emphasize a word, underlining the word, or writing in bold or in ALL CAPS. Capitalizing a word is something you do to proper nouns.
I wouldn't hop on my case; because obviously you have no idea what your're talking about. Since you believe I am trying to use "big words" intentionally - I'll keep this simple. The word was indeed used correctly as it is an adjective properly describing a noun.
The idea of using a capital letter to emphasize a statement/word is rather minor detail with no significance in itself... weak argument. People - including famous authors - using different and unique styles of expressing their literature; so such way would not be incorrect, maybe not norm, but also not wrong.
Your poor example of pocket trash has no validity to it, still. Unless you improperly used the noun: trash.
It's definition: Anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
Want to explain how that has any historical importance? Unlike WW2 bunkers, it doesn't. Unless you want to deny WW2 was a significant historical event - it's not only important to me. Which also makes it not any ordinary bunker, which you mentioned about any building, which would be blowing what I said way out of proportion.
Now, how about we knock it off with this pointless argument and give ariska99 back his thread?
Signed, by the way...