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Pointless English Grammar Argument (pg. 2)
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| Luke Terry |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrSquirrel
There is nothing technically wrong with it. I would usually say "who are" but I was correcting more his use of the plural/singular forms and wanted to keep the contractions as a matter of consistency.
That being said......I am an American and we have a slightly different set of rules for what is proper word usage.
i.e. When speaking of an ill person the British would say:
"David was in hospital for two weeks."
Whereas, the proper usage in America would be:
"David was in the hospital for two weeks."
MrS |
hospital breaks the rule tho. we normally would use the. think about it, if you said "david was in house for two weeks" or "david was down pub for two weeks" people would think you would you were from yorkshire. |
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| Luke Terry |
| quote: | Originally posted by Coup
its still a mint tune to this day, that is my argument. flaming june is a mint tune... |
you can still say flaming june was a mint tune tho ;)
it's fairly easy to wind you up :p |
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| Indicative |
You are both right and wrong once again!
The correct term would be; Flaming June was and still is a mint tune. |
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| arctic |
| Luke Terry you are teh sux0r! |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Luke Terry
hospital breaks the rule tho. we normally would use the. think about it, if you said "david was in house for two weeks" or "david was down pub for two weeks" people would think you would you were from yorkshire. |
That shows the major deficiency of the English language.
It is a conglomeration of words and phrases from so many different languages that is is mind boggling to try and figure out what exactly the rules are. People wonder why it is so hard to get decent voice recognition software and this is the reason...the language is illogical.
Don't get me wrong, I like English...but it is damn confusing at best.
:crazy:
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| Luke Terry |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrSquirrel
That shows the major deficiency of the English language.
It is a conglomeration of words and phrases from so many different languages that is is mind boggling to try and figure out what exactly the rules are. People wonder why it is so hard to get decent voice recognition software and this is the reason...the language is illogical.
Don't get me wrong, I like English...but it is damn confusing at best.
:crazy:
MrS |
true, i blame that entire reason why im at french as all the verbs and stuff move round the sentence and with my brain.
and arctic ;) im going to bed now, i shall think of you as i have a wee :p |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by arctic
Luke Terry you are teh sux0r! |
1337 sp34k is another problem.
Of course, it is coming from an Australian and most people up here couldn't understand one 90% of the time anyway.
:p
MrS |
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrSquirrel
1337 sp34k is another problem.
Of course, it is coming from an Australian and most people up here couldn't understand one 90% of the time anyway.
:p
MrS |
pwned :stongue: :haha:
could say the same about American citizens mind ;) |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian^
pwned :stongue: :haha:
could say the same about American citizens mind ;) |
Ah-ha.....but American media has swamped the rest of the world so much that everyone can understand our accent because they watch our movies :D
But I can understand just about anyone, so I could care less. :thepirate
Bargh.
MrS |
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| SuperFarStucker |
It's simple, there are two events you are talking about here, hence the confusion.
The event of the remix or the abstract concept which has no definite beginning or ending of "goodness" of the track. Hence, is or was is (or was) correct. Forgive my grammatical errors...
haha, that's damn confusing now that I read it... |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Coup
two ing quid! |
Proof one should never trust the English (Ian in this case) :p
MrS |
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