Antidisestablishmentarianism? Grammer?
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SpectrePilot
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I personally notice the misuse of "insure" for "ensure". One can be insured against loss, or they can ensure they do not lose it. For some reason that one always jumps out at me.
To decimate literally means to reduce by one-tenth. It is, I believe, derived from the Latin word meaning "ten." "Decimation" was a form of discipline used in the Roman Army. Soldiers were divided into groups of ten, they drew lots, and the loser was stoned or clubbed to death by the other nine.
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Me an' Cleave went to tha beer joint together an' spent 'bout 7 hours shootin' pool an' fixin' tha world. When I dropped him off, his ol' lady smacked him with a luminum bat an' said they was splittin' up.
That it?
Sounds like ol Cleave is kinda unrepent'd.....But, She ought'n not to disrespect ol' Cleave like that,
what with that thar ball bat, don't ya think.
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The language buffs here might like this old Car Talk puzzler:
RAY: We needed a new sign above our garage and Tommy decided to hire a sign painter for the job, instead of turning Crusty loose with a can of spray paint, like the last time.
He instructed the sign painter to paint a sign which simply said, 'Click and Clack's Garage.' Those four words.
When it was finally finished and hung in place, Tommy stood there and carefully studied the new sign. After several minutes he spoke: 'I don't like it. Something's not right.'
'What's wrong?' asked the sign painter. 'Did I misspell something or use improper punctuation?'
'No, it's nothing like that.'
Tommy then uttered a sentence in which he used one of the words on that sign five times in a row. There were other words in that sentence, but one of the words in that sign was used five times in a row. And here's the interesting part: the sentence made sense and, furthermore, it explained what was wrong with that sign.
And the question very simply is, what's the sentence?
Answer:
You need to leave larger spaces between 'Click' and 'And' and 'And' and 'Clack'
RAY: We needed a new sign above our garage and Tommy decided to hire a sign painter for the job, instead of turning Crusty loose with a can of spray paint, like the last time.
He instructed the sign painter to paint a sign which simply said, 'Click and Clack's Garage.' Those four words.
When it was finally finished and hung in place, Tommy stood there and carefully studied the new sign. After several minutes he spoke: 'I don't like it. Something's not right.'
'What's wrong?' asked the sign painter. 'Did I misspell something or use improper punctuation?'
'No, it's nothing like that.'
Tommy then uttered a sentence in which he used one of the words on that sign five times in a row. There were other words in that sentence, but one of the words in that sign was used five times in a row. And here's the interesting part: the sentence made sense and, furthermore, it explained what was wrong with that sign.
And the question very simply is, what's the sentence?
Answer:
You need to leave larger spaces between 'Click' and 'And' and 'And' and 'Clack'
Texas Star
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This is so, but I think was reserved for grave things, like losing a battle, and maybe not always then. It probably varied with the date.
Roman forces also sometimes decimated rebellious villages in conquored (sp?) lands.
to9
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Watching and reading this gave me a headache just the same as it did in school. Some things never change .Who really cares as long as you get your point across .
Alpo
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Apparently, many of us really care.
when somone types somting wiht misspelllings and no capitols or periouds or commmas or any other punktuation and uses one long run on sentence and keeps saying and this and and that and never takes a break in what he is writing
The main point that comes across to me is he is either uneducated or stupid, or possibly both.
If someone that I don't know is telling me something, I give him a "knowledge factor" of 100. With no reason to think otherwise, I figure he knows what he is talking about.
But, if in the process of telling me, he demonstrates that he does not know what punctuation is, or does not know where the shift key is on the keyboard, or its purpose, or that he does not know the difference between its and it's, there their and they're, to too and two, your and you're, that 100 he started with keeps getting lower and lower.
He might be the most knowledgeable person in the world, on the subject he is explaining. But if he cannot get the point across, intelligently, because he does not know how to write a simple sentence, then all of his knowledge is useless.
when somone types somting wiht misspelllings and no capitols or periouds or commmas or any other punktuation and uses one long run on sentence and keeps saying and this and and that and never takes a break in what he is writing
The main point that comes across to me is he is either uneducated or stupid, or possibly both.
If someone that I don't know is telling me something, I give him a "knowledge factor" of 100. With no reason to think otherwise, I figure he knows what he is talking about.
But, if in the process of telling me, he demonstrates that he does not know what punctuation is, or does not know where the shift key is on the keyboard, or its purpose, or that he does not know the difference between its and it's, there their and they're, to too and two, your and you're, that 100 he started with keeps getting lower and lower.
He might be the most knowledgeable person in the world, on the subject he is explaining. But if he cannot get the point across, intelligently, because he does not know how to write a simple sentence, then all of his knowledge is useless.
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For David:
"Once I lost a preposition,
It fell, I thought, beneath my chair,
Angrily I cried "Perdition,
Come up from out of in under there.
Now accuracy is my vade mecum,
Fuzzy thinking I abhor,
But I cannot really fathom,
What it should come up from out of in under there for."
I read that somewhere, long ago. I think that's seven prepositions in a row.
"Once I lost a preposition,
It fell, I thought, beneath my chair,
Angrily I cried "Perdition,
Come up from out of in under there.
Now accuracy is my vade mecum,
Fuzzy thinking I abhor,
But I cannot really fathom,
What it should come up from out of in under there for."
I read that somewhere, long ago. I think that's seven prepositions in a row.
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Some of yall need to go outside and do something constructive.....
"Doesn't",which is also in the dictionary, is the proper term here.
May I respect you for saying that?
"A lot" is a modifer which must be followed by a noun. A lot of you, a lot of us, a lot of people...
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Wear in their yard?
Yo Bubba, itza small yard, open you ize and take a gander.
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You and us are now nouns?
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