Oeditpus Rex
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Fri Feb-10-06 12:46 PM
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| 2. Doesn't make you sound dumb |
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Makes you sound pedantic.
Churchill had a good grasp of it:
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
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| -Proper grammar that makes you sound dumb. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 12:38 PM |
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Wrong. |
Benfea |
Feb-10-06 12:39 PM |
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Doesn't make you sound dumb |
Oeditpus Rex |
Feb-10-06 12:46 PM |
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Pedantic...exactly. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 12:52 PM |
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the preposition thing is a rule that isn't really a rule anyway |
fishwax |
Feb-10-06 01:38 PM |
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I would have used "I don't know to what it should be attributed." |
ET Awful |
Feb-10-06 12:50 PM |
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Too wordy anyway. |
WeRQ4U |
Feb-10-06 01:01 PM |
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I'm weird-I find guys who use proper grammar sexy....guess I'm lucky |
Rowdyboy |
Feb-10-06 01:07 PM |
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With whom are you going to the concert? (n/t) |
Ron Mexico |
Feb-10-06 01:09 PM |
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That's a good one |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 01:09 PM |
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"Is that we?" |
ContraBass Black |
Feb-10-06 01:10 PM |
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I'm SO using that one. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 01:16 PM |
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Dangling obscenely yesterday, a participle fell into my open trenchcoat. |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 01:16 PM |
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I love it when you talk dirtily. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 01:18 PM |
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It was harder than you'd think |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 01:19 PM |
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You said it was dangling. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 01:25 PM |
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Bwwwwahhhh! |
LostinVA |
Feb-10-06 01:28 PM |
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Well, not if you're going to split hairs (or anything else) |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 01:28 PM |
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I love when you dangle your participles, JP |
tigereye |
Feb-10-06 03:09 PM |
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I'll have two Whoppers Junior, please. |
anarch |
Feb-10-06 01:36 PM |
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Yes! Courts martial, attorneys general, and notaries public! |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 01:36 PM |
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"No WsMD were found in Iraq." |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 01:38 PM |
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You realize I'm going to say "double-youse em dee" all the time now. |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 02:00 PM |
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No, no. Dubyas Em Dees. |
Left Is Write |
Feb-10-06 02:01 PM |
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Edit--I fucked up and used a "dees" when I meant "dee" |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 02:03 PM |
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Same with 'runs batted in' |
Oeditpus Rex |
Feb-10-06 02:04 PM |
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Can you have a single RBI? |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 02:05 PM |
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It's the same either way |
Oeditpus Rex |
Feb-10-06 02:12 PM |
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that sounds like a Catch 22 |
hfojvt |
Feb-10-06 02:43 PM |
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... |
Oeditpus Rex |
Feb-10-06 02:57 PM |
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I should have cited |
hfojvt |
Feb-10-06 04:02 PM |
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Er...I refer to my sisters' husbands as my brothers-in-law. |
Left Is Write |
Feb-10-06 01:59 PM |
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So many people have lost the use of the past participle, especially on the |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Feb-10-06 01:39 PM |
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Arrgh. I hear phrases like your examples ALL the time. |
Left Is Write |
Feb-10-06 02:00 PM |
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That's marginally better than 'should of went' |
Oeditpus Rex |
Feb-10-06 02:07 PM |
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And you wait *for* something not *on* it. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 02:13 PM |
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Ah, I remember that quote well. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 02:10 PM |
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I say that, too -- and also get comments |
LostinVA |
Feb-10-06 03:42 PM |
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Grammar-Nazi alert |
TheBaldyMan |
Feb-10-06 02:20 PM |
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That's a great slogan |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 02:26 PM |
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I'll make it a Threadless tshirt, and take all the credit, money and girls |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 02:35 PM |
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"That is something up with which I can not put" - Winston |
Strong Atheist |
Feb-10-06 02:40 PM |
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Funny you should mention that. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 02:43 PM |
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Thanks! nt. |
Strong Atheist |
Feb-10-06 02:48 PM |
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Love that! |
WritingIsMyReligion |
Feb-10-06 03:03 PM |
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Thanks! nt. |
Strong Atheist |
Feb-10-06 06:05 PM |
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"An historic" |
nytemare |
Feb-10-06 02:42 PM |
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Yeah, odd but "it was an honor to meet you" sounds correct |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 02:49 PM |
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It was an hurricane that washed away the facade |
nytemare |
Feb-10-06 02:58 PM |
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Wait "honor" doesn't have the H sound in it. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 03:04 PM |
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Grammar Nazi alert (again) |
TheBaldyMan |
Feb-10-06 03:06 PM |
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Thank you |
nytemare |
Feb-10-06 03:28 PM |
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Roughly speaking |
tjwmason |
Feb-10-06 07:15 PM |
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OOooh! I've got one! |
RandomKoolzip |
Feb-10-06 02:48 PM |
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That's an horrible example. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 02:51 PM |
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Usually everything you post is so clever and funny |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 02:51 PM |
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I hate you with the burning intensity of an hundred million Chernobyls. |
RandomKoolzip |
Feb-10-06 02:53 PM |
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You are clearly an hysterical man |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 02:55 PM |
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PAPER KNIVES NOW!!!! |
RandomKoolzip |
Feb-10-06 02:57 PM |
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Paper hats!!!! |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 02:59 PM |
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Not now...I'd end up referencing some horrid Emo band... |
RandomKoolzip |
Feb-10-06 03:02 PM |
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Take It Back |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 03:06 PM |
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"Out-horrible" is grammatically incorrect. |
RandomKoolzip |
Feb-10-06 03:09 PM |
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Wrong again. It's an aesthetic category of belly-button |
jpgray |
Feb-10-06 03:12 PM |
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Man, you just flew past sense into some sorta loggorhea cloud... |
RandomKoolzip |
Feb-10-06 03:14 PM |
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Since you're using Spock as a sig, you remind me of a classic example |
Montauk6 |
Feb-10-06 03:35 PM |
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That's beautiful. |
SouthoftheBorderPaul |
Feb-10-06 03:37 PM |
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Ahh but if you put it as "boldly to go..." it makes it all more emphatic |
tjwmason |
Feb-10-06 07:17 PM |
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Here's my contribution.......wait for it... |
GalleryGod |
Feb-10-06 04:10 PM |
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My name is Xithras, and I am a grammar nazi. |
Xithras |
Feb-10-06 07:25 PM |
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