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Grammer rant. What is wrong with simple past-tense?
May 08, 2019, 01:44 AM
V-TailGrammer rant. What is wrong with simple past-tense?
quote:
Originally posted by Aquabird:
Its worse when people use a double negative. Happens more often around here.
Nope, that don’t bother me none.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים May 08, 2019, 08:39 AM
vinnybassquote:
It's starting to wear on me because I ('ve or have) been hearing it all day, everyday.
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." May 08, 2019, 09:06 AM
apprenticeIt amazes me how so many of you are able to properly (as far as I can tell) label the grammar items that are being discussed.
Do you mentally draw out the lines going from the words in your sentences and then label them to make the diagrams like I saw in grade school? Seems like it would be exhausting.
Maybe I should be able to as well, but I've forgotten all about what to call most grammar items as they appear.
May 08, 2019, 09:29 AM
sigcrazy7quote:
Originally posted by vinnybass:
quote:
It's starting to wear on me because I ('ve or have) been hearing it all day, everyday.
You did notice that I had already included the winky, indicating the irony of my final sentence, right? I now have a double winky, and a huge grin.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus May 08, 2019, 09:44 AM
vinnybassOops, posting before coffee.
Aye scene watt ewe did their.
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." May 08, 2019, 04:56 PM
joel9507quote:
Originally posted by Aquabird:
Its worse when people use a double negative. Happens more often around here.
It can't be not as bad as when people forget not to use the triple negative. That almost never fails not to amuse.
May 10, 2019, 10:19 AM
ggileIt's the darned misuse of hyphens that gets me.
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May 10, 2019, 10:26 AM
GustoferMy favorite grammar joke:
A kid from Montana gets accepted to Harvard. His first week out there, he's looking around the campus trying to find places and he walks up to what appears to be an upperclassman and asks, "Excuse me, could you tell me where the library is at?"
The upperclassman looks down his nose at the freshman and says, "Here at Harvard, we don't end our sentences in a preposition."
The Montana kid thinks for a second and says, "OK then, can you tell me where the library is at, asshole?"
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May 11, 2019, 04:52 AM
vthokyquote:
Originally posted by Harvard student:
"Here at Harvard, we don't end our sentences in a preposition."
Isn't that a prepositional phrase?
Yankees... sheesh.
God bless America. May 11, 2019, 09:52 PM
jhe888quote:
Originally posted by V-Tail:
quote:
Originally posted by Aquabird:
Its worse when people use a double negative. Happens more often around here.
Nope, that don’t bother me none.
Don't make me no never mind.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. May 12, 2019, 10:27 AM
Sir GuyWhat bugs me recently is the confusion about, “Me, myself, and I.”
“Myself and Joe went to the scene.”
No. “Joe and I.”
“She said she saw him and I.”
No. “Him and me.”
I hear and read the “myself” one a lot. I don’t know why. It’s reflexive...something does to oneself. “I scratched myself on the arm,” not, “She and myself drove to the store.”
Oy.
May 12, 2019, 11:32 AM
vthokyquote:
Originally posted by Sir Guy:
“myself”
Person1: "Hey, how are you today?"
Person2: "Fine, and yourself?"
Grrrrr....
God bless America.