If I lose anymore weight my pants will be too loose.
They're over there by their car.
It's lost its charm.
:)
You guys forced me to buy a Franklin Spelling Ace and a "Grammer & Punctuation Quick Study Academic Outline" over the years.
I still get it wrong sometimes, but like I have both of my Nephues, "No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes".
dexter said:I still get it wrong sometimes, but like I have both of my Nephues, "No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes".
Chuckle chuckle. Its alright. Coasterbuzz is not judgemental ;)
Second, I know it was not completely proper grammer, that was not my point. I was using a common psychological tactic to receive a larger response and get my question answered. Had I not we would have never received any of those wonderfully wastes of company time, insults to my grammatical intelligence, however witty comments from Paula.
Third, now that we are all speaking of grammatical intelligence, millrace both less and fewer are correct at the same time. Less refers to a quantity, quantity refers to a number. Fewer also refers to a number. Both are referring to a number as in the number of items a consumer is "allowed" to purchase in that lane. I myself believe that fewer sounds better, both are correct, but from a business standpoint it might be best to use "less" due to the capability of that one letter difference may save a massive amount of money when you are building a large guantity of stores.
Fourth, I unfortunately have to know something about grammar, because constantly some grammar expert has to tell me that my name "Jonathon" is grammatically correctly pronounced JO-Nathan, and I have to tell them they don't know what they are talking about. My name is spelled with an "o" near the end and no "h" in Jon so no my name is spelled to be pronounced Jonathon.
Finally, so actually if we do consider the S-turn to be a complete element, it is NEW and never-before-seen. Oh, I feel so under-promised and over-delivered, Paula is finally doing her job. I knew it would happen one day!!! So, Paula, will we be seeing this in the video anytime soon, or pictures?
But it is such a common mistake that many grammarians and editors probably let it go.
But I'm not allowed to in my job :)
millrace, I think you're right - just like the word "often". The proper pronunciation is "OFF-en" (the 't' is silent). Most people mispronounce it "OFF-ten". It was so widely mispronounced that it finally became accepted as one of two acceptable pronunciations. If you don't believe me, go get a dictionary that's 50 years old, and look up the pronunciation guide.
Note: I just doublechecked in my copy of 'The American College Dictionary' by Random House, (c) 1958, and according to that the only correct pronunciation is "OFF-en". No 'T'.
Anyway, so how about that element?
It was so widely mispronounced that it finally became accepted as one of two acceptable pronunciations.
That's just kind of the natural evolution of language. There's countless examples of such change over the years.
So much so, in fact, that much of what we screw with people for now will eventually become the norm.
But, then, what do I know about proper Pronunciation? *** Edited 11/25/2005 5:30:38 AM UTC by TeknoScorpion***
You need to get to Dollywood! Having the train fly above you in the station is rather cool too (unless you're in the station a really long time...oh...wait, this is Dollywood. They have the best capacity I've ever seen, what am I saying...).
Speaking of which, are you available any weekends in December? ;)
"were its at, 2 turn tables and a microphone"
it was neccisary for me to do that, i'll get back to u on why ;)
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