wheres it at?

Yes, a preposition is much better to end a sentence without.

Yes, grammatically correct, that would be "Where is it?", or better "Where is it located?", or best, "Where is the new element on The Voyage located?". See it's not that hard. Option three is always your best option. You don't waste peoples time, and people don't ignore your thread title because they don't want to fall for another stupid ambiguous thread title with a question that obviously would have been answered had they listened to Podcast #10 from this week. And yes, that was a run-on sentence and a plug for the Podcast:)

Oh this is getting ridiculous!! What kind of coaster enthusiasts do you think we are, we're talking about grammatical errors for cripes sakes!! What kind of world do I live in when I finally find a place to disgust roller coasters and it somehow turns into a proper english conversation!! We go from The Voyage to Prepositional Phrases!?!? Come on people, we're better than this. We're COASTER ENTHUSIASTS!! We rise above the average park goer. We don't need to discuss things as low and unused as proper english do we?? Exactly!!

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(note: end grammatical raid)

*** Edited 11/22/2005 10:48:53 PM UTC by Corkscrewy***

I for one am not disgusted with roller coasters and am willing to discuss roller coasters! ;)

As far as the new element! I am so excited! Can this winter go by more slowly? I can't wait till May! *** Edited 11/22/2005 11:18:34 PM UTC by a_hoffman50***

Woops.. My bad. See what you people do. I was so angry with this whole thing that I made a mistake! ;)

There's always time for proper grammar. Do we want to appear to the "general public" as even bigger jackasses than we already appear?

*** Edited 11/22/2005 11:30:02 PM UTC by millrace***

Perhaps...

:)

I cannot believe how good this ride looks. A 90* banked S turn into a underground triple down and then down a downhill terrain romp with another 90* bank into a couple underground plexiglass tunnels. DAYUM!

And we thought Hades was special. ;) The way I look at it, Hades was just a 'prototype' for bigger and better things.

I'm lost, what is all this fuss about? Is this 3rd hill an obtuse dicision for someone to gesture or is it spectacular?

It is not a third hill. It is a third 90 degree banked turn. Which will make the first 90 degree banked S-turn. It is totally awesome. This was not in the original plan.

Yeah, we're coaster enthusiasts, wadda we need to talk good English for? I'm just wondering how nasty Corkscrewy must be if he can disgust a roller coaster.

Corkscrewy, just be glad I don't make you diagram your sentences. :) And who thought this topic would be attack-free?

attack-free, or free-attack? ;)

We're just having fun. The way the forum topic is phrased is a common problem that even many newscasters get wrong. I've got two parents in the school system--one of whom is Ivy league educated--so they get bothered by the smallest grammar mistakes. Their biggest pet peeve is when people use the word "less", when "fewer" is the proper term i.e. a) Millennium Force has less brakes than Mean Streak (bad) b) Millennium Force has fewer brakes than Mean Streak (good). It's funny that a Giant Food Store and a Wal-Mart which are on the same parking lot use different terminology to describe their checkout lines. At Giant, it's 15 items or fewer. At Wal-Mart, it's 15 items or less. I think the problem with the latter is that the Wal-Mart statement never answers the question "Less than what?"

And no Corkscrewy, we're not better than the average park attendant. We just happen to know more due to sites like this. All is equal when it comes to the fun factor.

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Intamin Fan said:
At Wal-Mart, it's 15 items or less. I think the problem with the latter is that the Wal-Mart statement never answers the question "Less than what?"

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Less than 15, genius. :)

But when in doubt, use both. "Millennium Force has less fewer brakes than Mean Streak." So who decided that both "less" and "fewer" should be the opposites of "more?"

Next week's lesson, comparatives and superlatives as applied to roller coasters.

Use "fewer" when referring to a number. *There are fewer than 10 people on Coasterbuzz who care about proper grammar.*

Use "less" when referring to a quantity. *Reading Coasterbuzz requires less energy than performing my real job."

But, use "less" when a number and a unit of measure are combined. *This roller coaster is less than 15 feet taller than that roller coaster.*

And, as usual, Wal-Mart is wrong.

I'm also curious if M-Force really has less brakes than Mean Streak. Has anybody actually counted them? *** Edited 11/23/2005 7:07:42 PM UTC by millrace***

Not sure, but I think Mean Streak breaks less than Millennium Force.

Brakes or Breaks? ;)

RavenTTD, yes I know what they mean, I was trying to address why someone would have a problem with it grammatically.