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gali:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 19, 03:58:40
Heh, well, in my line of work, things get even shorter. To express a need, one simply indicates the lack of the needed object: For example, "NO BULLETS!". This can be further abbreviated to simply "BULLETS!" if it is apparent that you don't have any.
Still, you have to add the intonation of the Command, or Question...:). It make things longer...:).
Brynne:
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2005 August 18, 20:29:57
Ah, I see my last post was taken quite differently from the way I intended it to be.
No, I do not think southerners are stupid. I do not equate a southern accent with stupidity in any way, shape or form. And I grew up saying "warsh", but have since dropped that.
Just so you know, I didn't take offense at your post. I was just making a generalization based on what reggiko said. No worries!
ZephyrZodiac:
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So the first one is: it is inevitable (beyond my control) that I am going to drown, and no one is willing to save me.
The second one: I am going to drown, and it is my command that no one save me.
Does that sound like I understood what you just said?
By George she's got it!
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Do "we"? I've never heard that before in my life! "Next Tuesday" - the next time a Tuesday occurs. "Tuesday week" - the second Tuesday that is to occur. "Next Tuesday week" - wtf? The next time a second Tuesday occurs?! On a related note, a strange thing in English is the word "bimonthly". It means both twice a month and every 2 months. If you're thinking about having a bimonthly meeting, do make sure the rest of your committee has agreed on what this means, as one meaning is 4 times more frequent than the other .
Just goes to show we all learn different aspects of English! To me, next Tuesday week and next Tuesday week mean the same, but I hear both, and probably use both.
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The only one I can make an exception for is possessive its, because apostrophes are used to show possession in the rest of English (the genitive case), so it's rather strange that possessive its doesn't have one. I remember it because there's a usenet newsgroup called alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe - I used to post there, back when I did usenet.
You don't write hi's or her's so why would you write it's? The genetive is a case, not a contraction.
laeshanin:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 August 18, 15:04:42
Well, Brummie may be considered unattractive, but at least most people can understand it! And I've found that Brummies themselves are among the friendliest people in the UK, as goes for the Midlands generally. Stand in a bus queue for an hour in London, and you're lucky if anyone talks to you, stand in one for five minutes in the Midlands and you can be chatting to a perfect stranger as if you've known them all your life!
Why, thank you kind sir... :)
With regard to spoken English, the thing that bugs the hell out of me most is the over use of the word "what" as in "like what she did the other day..." Grrr. The combination of those two small words "like what" make my teeth grind together.
ZephyrZodiac:
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Why, thank you kind sir...
Hate to disillusion you, but I'm actually female!
I do agree about "like what"! what on earth is wrong with "as"? My sister once had a boyfriend (he didn't last long) and every second word was "like"! As in,
"Like I said, like, I was like goin' like dahn the road like and like I saw......." get the drift?
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