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Tommo Shanter
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 5378
Location: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. - Euripides
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:30 am |
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<br>Aah, the good old 'grocer's apostrophe', or should that be 'grocers apostrophe' ?
On a slightly off topic note. A poster in the gents of my local pub advertised a free and easy night of karaoke, stand up comedy etc.. If interested contact 'Mike'. The baiter and childish glee in me kicked in and I just had to pen in his surname. Can you guess what it was? Sorry, but I just couldn't resist.
I once asked the barman at another local pub if I could borrow some chalk to correct an apostrophe omission on the menu specials board. |
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Reaper
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 06 May 2007
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Location: Travelling in a fried-out combie. On a hippie trail, head full of zombie...
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:11 pm |
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Really Josh? I wasn't doing that just to peeve you off, of course. |
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Doctor X
** ACCOUNT CLOSED **
Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 766
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:32 pm |
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@Tommo Shanter
You are familiar with Mr. Hunt?
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_________________ וגם־אני נתתי להם חקים לא טובים ומשפטים לא יחיו בהם
ואטמא אותם במתנותם בהעביר כל־פטר רחם למען אשםם למען אשר ידעו אשר אני יהוה |
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kleindoofy
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Joined: 24 Oct 2004
Posts: 6248
Location: Europe
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:38 pm |
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Reaper wrote: |
apostrophe's, I love those little guy's ... |
Ahh, the apostrophe. It's it's use that's important. |
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:41 pm |
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Personally, I feel that the semicolon is the most underutilized, least understood piece of punctuation there is; I am saddened that it doesn't get anywhere near the recognition that it deserves.
I misuse it every chance I get. |
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kleindoofy
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Location: Europe
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:47 pm |
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TSnerd wrote: |
... underutilized ... |
Ok, then derutilize it.
Or does un-de-rutilize mean to reverse derutilization, meaning, without the double negative, to rutilize?
Isn't hyphenation great? |
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:51 pm |
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I am boycotting the hyphen for reasons best known to me. |
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kleindoofy
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Location: Europe
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:54 pm |
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Ahhh, Nerdy is ragged and not justified. |
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:04 pm |
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Yeah.
I can't remember the last time I was this fuzzled. |
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callum
Director of Press Relations
Joined: 29 May 2004
Posts: 3631
Location: On the run from the asylum and this seems like a good place to hide. Blend right in...
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:51 pm |
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Grammar? The English language has grammar? I bet te nexte theng you're goeing to tell mi iz that it haz spelleeng too.
Plese tell mi this iz just a sic joek... |
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kleindoofy
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Location: Europe
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:56 pm |
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Sorry, it ain't no sick joke. |
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luckey
Moderator
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 5672
Location: Check the lost and found
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:20 pm |
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Average Joe: "I don't have anyone to go to the movies with."
Grammar pedant: "You shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition."
Average Joe: "I don't have anyone to go to the movies with, asshole." |
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Josh
Elite Baiter
Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Posts: 1799
Location: Nu Zilund
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:45 pm |
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kleindoofy wrote: |
It's it's use that's important. |
Don't you mean "it's its use that's important???"
kleindoofy wrote: |
Or does un-de-rutilize mean to reverse derutilization, meaning, without the double negative, to rutilize? |
Underutilise simply means under-utilise, utilising it less often than one could. I don't think the "un" part of it is really that important, unless we think that under is the opposite of "der". |
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Gnasher
Baiting Guru
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 2849
Location: Centre Stage in the Theatre of Cruelty
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:46 pm |
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I feel very sorry for anyone learning English as a second language with all its weird and illogical spelling and pronunciation.
"Those present voted to present the present presently"
There are a couple of inadvertant examples in my first sentence too:
Remember learning "i after e, except after c" at school? eg tIEd and concEIt. Well, yes - but not in the word "weird"
To pronOUnce = verb
PronUnciation = noun |
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kleindoofy
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Location: Europe
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:48 pm |
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Josh wrote: |
... Don't you mean "it's its use that's important???" |
Let me put it this way: you found the mistake, but you missed the joke. |
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Josh
Elite Baiter
Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Posts: 1799
Location: Nu Zilund
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:51 pm |
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I agree Gnasher. I feel amazingly sorry for anyone trying to learn the English language - there are just so many exceptions to the rules that it must drive them insane.
I never quite got the whole pronounce, pronunce thing. Why the hell can't it just be pronounciation? I suppose it's quite ironic that particular word is pronounced oddly - perhaps it was someone's joke a few hundred years ago?
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Let me put it this way: you found the mistake, but you missed the joke. |
No I see what you mean.
There's a punctuation book called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves". It tells the story of a Panda who comes in to a restaurant for some food, eats the food, shoots off his gun everywhere and then leaves. When someone asks him what the hell was that for he says "I'm a Panda, I read someone that a Panda "eats, shoots and leaves" (instead of eats shoot and leaves). I know it's a silly story but it shows how much punctuation affects the meaning of a sentence. |
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Mike
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 30 Nov 2003
Posts: 721
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:55 pm |
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Zorro wrote: |
English is the only truly international language. |
Er.. Spanish...French...
P.S.: I can forgive anything except rogue apostrophes. |
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Gnasher
Baiting Guru
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 2849
Location: Centre Stage in the Theatre of Cruelty
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:07 pm |
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If you want to learn an 'easy' foreign language then I'd say Spanish is a good choice. The rules of grammar, spelling and pronunciation are (mostly) consistant and logical with few irregularities so you can make fairly quick progress to a point where basic conversation is possible. |
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"you have to pay because he need to submit this form to the Federal Ministry Of Fancies" Barrister John/Mike/Richard Okeke
"they are in deed the swinders rotating about in the net and searching for whom they will stylishly defraud your belongings" A. Moron
"Please pray harder for God to guide and protect us during our travelling because flight airplane i observe is a very big risky" Abdul Karibu
"WE DOESN'T LIKE HOW DISOBIDIENT YOU ARE!" Coco Law Chambers
"BE INFORMED THAT YOU WILL INCUR DUMMERAGE AFTER 9 DAYS FROM TODAY" Burkina Faso Air Secure Air Service.\ |
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JoeTam
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Joined: 16 Nov 2005
Posts: 2153
Location: Pulling foil arrows out of my head.
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:02 pm |
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I'm OCD on correct writing techniques. I proof read everything twice. I just tweak when I'm not sure on punctuation! |
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it wasn't me
Elite Baiter
Joined: 18 Feb 2007
Posts: 1043
Location: sitting in the corner drinking wine, eating cheese
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:09 pm |
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I can teach you to use the Queens English in one easy lesson...
Ready?
Say Air.
Say Hair.
Say lair.
Now, whilst waving your hand in a circular motion and nodding your head, put the three words together.
See. Now you can speak the Queens English...
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kleindoofy
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Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:09 pm |
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Josh wrote: |
... I feel amazingly sorry for anyone trying to learn the English language ... |
I feel sorry for Radden. |
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Josh
Elite Baiter
Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Posts: 1799
Location: Nu Zilund
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:38 am |
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From another thread here:
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ok this has me thinking right now cause im joine dup on a fourm where i think theres ALOT of UAE members on there... but saying that i no the administrator of the forum threw another forum which was shutdown which its self "due to pretty dumb newbies"was connected to a very well known forum for i forgot the name...
but im sure any possible scammers on that fourm lup an left when one of my topics warning all users on the UAE board about email scammers was very active an got alot of replies... |
Arrrgggh.... my eyes my eyes! |
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justjay
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2412
Location: ~Data Miner & Esoteric Trivia Collecter~
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:07 pm |
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2 much txting mks u 1 bad splr.
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language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse
whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English
has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new
vocabulary."
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Hekate
Elite Baiter
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1338
Location: Scotland, UK
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:45 pm |
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@Josh - post something like that in here again, and I will hunt you down and hurt you! Oh, the horror!
I'm one of the OCD mob in here. If I didn't stop myself from posting, I'd be a real grammar Nazi! And before anyone takes me to task on it, my French and German are very good, and my Italian, which I started to study comparatively recently, is coming along nicely. I can even communicate in broad Glaswegian, but I fear that would be tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment! |
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Josh
Elite Baiter
Joined: 24 Apr 2007
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Location: Nu Zilund
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:10 pm |
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Glaswegian's a whole entirely different language isn't it? Incomprehensible to outsiders....
Sorry about my earlier post, it wasn't actually something I wrote, but something I found elsewhere in this very forum which pained me so much I just had to mention it.
I'm just waiting for my girlfriend to find this thread.... you think I'm anally retentive about grammar and punctuation? She's studying for a Master's Degree in English! |
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