One does not "hoe a road", you "hoe a row in the garden or field". Therefore is the expression not "tough row to hoe"?
Myself don’t want too hoe nothing actually. Its to hot outside.
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
August 24, 2019, 05:49 PM
medic15al
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Originally posted by 9mmepiphany:
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Originally posted by BurtonRW: They don't even teach kids how to diagram sentences in school anymore.
That is mostly an American affection. They don't teach it in the English prep school system
I didn't realize diagramming sentences is no longer taught.
August 24, 2019, 06:25 PM
erj_pilot
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Originally posted by medic15al: I didn't realize diagramming sentences is no longer taught.
I started kindergarten in 1966 and never once diagrammed a sentence my entire time in school to my (English perfect) mother's surprise.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
August 24, 2019, 06:31 PM
9mmepiphany
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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
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Originally posted by medic15al: I didn't realize diagramming sentences is no longer taught.
I started kindergarten in 1966 and never once diagrammed a sentence my entire time in school to my (English perfect) mother's surprise.
The last time I saw a sentence diagrammed was in 1967 in a public school (8th grade) in San Francisco. I had never seen the practice before
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August 27, 2024, 11:36 PM
V-Tail
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August 28, 2024, 09:57 AM
selogic
I haven't diagramed a sentence in over 50 years . Somehow I survived .
August 28, 2024, 10:05 AM
vinnybass
What do I care if I know English? I'm never going to England.
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
August 28, 2024, 11:54 AM
V-Tail
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Originally posted by vinnybass:
What do I care if I know English? I'm never going to England.
A friend of mine studied Esperanto. He speaks it like a native.
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August 28, 2024, 12:16 PM
vinnybass
^^^ Interesting. Is it useful in any meaningful way?
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
August 28, 2024, 01:13 PM
egregore
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A friend of mine studied Esperanto. He speaks it like a native.
Uh … native of what? Apparently this is possible.
You guys really need to reign this stuff in.This message has been edited. Last edited by: egregore,
August 28, 2024, 04:22 PM
sigfreund
To reiterate my earlier comment, phrases like “to/for my wife and I” act as speed bumps in anything I might be reading, and I find them in serious works by people or their editors who should know better.
A modest proposal, though: rather than “grammar Nazi,” what about “grammar Patton”? I doubt there would have been/are any real Nazis who would fret much about English grammar and word usage. General G. S. Patton, though? Based on all I’ve read about his obsessions over the slightest details concerning almost everything, I must believe that, “My son gave my wife and I a nice present,” would send him into a face-slapping frenzy. As bad as the Nazis were, must we nevertheless blame them—or in this case give them credit—for everything?
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August 28, 2024, 06:45 PM
V-Tail
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Originally posted by sigfreund:
rather than “grammar Nazi,” what about “grammar Patton”?
No grammar for you!
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August 29, 2024, 06:46 AM
egregore
Skirting the edge of the "no apostrophes to indicate plural" rule.
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As bad as the Nazis were, must we nevertheless blame them—or in this case give them credit—for everything?
Who pissed in your Nazi-O's?This message has been edited. Last edited by: egregore,
August 29, 2024, 07:45 AM
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Originally posted by sigfreund:
rather than “grammar Nazi,” what about “grammar Patton”?
