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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5228 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 49 of 63 20 December 2013 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I love the idea of English as a verb. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4688 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 50 of 63 20 December 2013 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Did you see this recent thread? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5226 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 51 of 63 20 December 2013 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Yes, reminds me of the infamous "can't math" (and the obviously inevitable "apparently can't English either" comments). While this kind of stuff is always fun, and even something I often do as tongue-in-cheek humour when among friends, it really bothers me when I see it used as if it were legitimately good language...
O brother where art thou? :D I always try and refrain from this (otherwise I wouldn't have time for anything else), but sometimes it's just too much. Just like accented speech (sorry, can't link the thread right now), ignorant use of bad language in any of its forms *can* get enormously irritating because of the burden it puts on the receiver ('requires extra processing time', I think they said) just for the hell of it. Irony is, dare do anything addressing such offenders, even just mentioning so, and then you'll typically be accused of wasting their time, or worse. Isn't this an amazing world? Edited by mrwarper on 20 December 2013 at 8:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4622 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 52 of 63 20 December 2013 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Rock pedant alert! None of the 5 musicians who played on that song were born in Oz. Three in fact never even lived there. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4290 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 53 of 63 20 December 2013 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
If I remember corectly, the lead singer pre-1980 was from Scotland, and the one 1980 onwardsfrom was from Gateshead (right next to Newcastle), and the two guitarists from Scotland. I am in my twenties, use a record player, a cassette player, a rotary dial telephone, still have the traditional television set (the one with the turning knobs for channels), although I do not use it, and I use "whom". It was not long ago my primary education--1993 I started, and since 1995 to around 2003, every year I was taught to use "whom". I remember one teacher that particularly disliked when people did not know the difference between "who" and "whom"--she was one of the grammar teachers, unsurprisingly, but this was in an era that I would consider fully modern. My mother also learnt "who" and "whom" from primary school, similar to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7205 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 54 of 63 20 December 2013 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Wasn't that a song about how Pete Townsend, Roger Daltry, Keith Moon, and John Entwistle being a self- made band?  Edited by luke on 21 December 2013 at 1:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 55 of 63 28 December 2013 at 5:08am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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1e4e6, I love it, but are you a pinball wizard? :)
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5560 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 56 of 63 28 December 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for whom.
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