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You're in my country now, talk my language (pg. 5)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
Do you have any pet grammar peeves? I have a load even though my grammar is far from perfect. For example you failing to use the possessive form of the pronoun preceding a gerund would annoy me. |
I do, actually: I hate when people try to change the language because of the whimsical caprices of others. They're what I call zombie rules.
For example, it's really common to end sentences with prepositions in English. Yet, for no good reason, some people go great lengths to avoid doing that, and the result is often awful. Why? It's been okay to do that for ages! I don't understand what the problem is with split infinitives, singular they, and passives either.
In Portuguese, I really hate it when grammar claim it's wrong to say "Me give!" (for "Give me!") and "I saw she" (for "I saw her") even though that's the way we've been speaking for more than a century. Therefore, whenever I hear someone say "her" or "him" in Portuguese (or when they insist to put the pronoun after the verb), it really makes me cringe. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
But my guess is still that those guys were being loud and annoying. |
So the proper response is to be even louder and far more annoying? LOL.
| quote: | jak fajnie
w takim razie, od dzis bedziemy tak pisac ze soba
bardzo sie ciesze ze masz taka ochote i ze sie zgadzasz ze nie ma sprawy jezeli nie rozumiesz nic z tego czego sie dzieje dokola ciebie |
Nice try, but this is less rude than it is simply idiotic. You might have a point if the guys were speaking Arabic to her and expecting her to understand it, but that wasn't the situation as far as I know. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
So the proper response is to be even louder and far more annoying? LOL. |
Would you sooner recommend people write a letter to the editor? |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Would you sooner recommend people write a letter to the editor? |
This is my favorite response when I'm with someone who complains about [insert various crap] and does nothing about it.
"Oh man I agree with you! I'm going to write a letter/make a phone call about this as soon as I get home!" :mad: |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Yeah, whenever I say I'm going to do it, I am FOR ING REAL SERIOUS. Thing is, I just don't care/forget by the time I get home. That's why I just became an editor, myself. :cool: :cool: :toocool: |
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| Ygrene |
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue:
Dammit man, you are a quality contributor to this forum AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT! |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Aww, thanks, Whygrin. However, I feel that you, yourself, don't post nearly enough around these parts. Do you have an iphone or something so you can post on the go? PETITION TO BUY YGRENE AN IPHONE SO HE CAN POST ALL OF THE TIME! |
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| HardTranceProd |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
what's this kind of ignorant bull? i'll speak whatever damned language i choose regardless of where i am or who is around.
idiot. |
You may speak 'whatever damned language' you choose, but in that case don't judge the rest of the public for their possible reaction to you, to which they are entitled just as much as you are entitled to doing what you described above. |
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| mrlyons |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
what's this kind of ignorant bull? i'll speak whatever damned language i choose regardless of where i am or who is around.
idiot. |
true that |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I do, actually: I hate when people try to change the language because of the whimsical caprices of others. They're what I call zombie rules.
For example, it's really common to end sentences with prepositions in English. Yet, for no good reason, some people go great lengths to avoid doing that, and the result is often awful. |
That's exactly the sort of grammatical pedantry up with which I can not put. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
That's exactly the sort of grammatical pedantry up with which I can not put. |
Haha, exactly! :D
ps.: The moar you know - Winston Churchill probably never said that, though this is often attributed to him. |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Haha, exactly! :D
ps.: The moar you know - Winston Churchill probably never said that, though this is often attributed to him. |
Yeah Churchill and Wilde probably never said half the that's attributed to them.. they're more myths than real people anyway :P |
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