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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5392 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 57 of 63 04 May 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
DaraghM wrote:
An intransitive verbal phrase, skips the queue, and walks straight into the bar. He's a ViP.
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Did you mean... IVP?
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6539 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic
| Message 58 of 63 05 May 2012 at 4:14am | IP Logged |
[ˈɔl ðə ˌɪntərˈnæʃnəl fəˈnetɪk ˈælfəˌbet ˈsɪmbəlz ˈwɔk ˈɪntuː ə ˈbɑr.]
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4839 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 59 of 63 03 June 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged |
This is not a joke as such, but a famously witty saying, with grammatical overtones.
However, the origin, and exact original saying are in doubt, so I will quote the
following:
Quote:
“Churchill” on Prepositions
The saying attributed to Winston Churchill rejecting the rule against ending a sentence
with a preposition must be among the most frequently mutated witticisms ever. I have
received many notes from correspondents claiming to know what the “original saying”
was, but none of them cites an authoritative source.
The alt.english.usage FAQ states that the story originated with an anecdote in Sir
Ernest Gowers’ Plain Words (1948). Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of
Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very
proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: “This is the sort of English up with
which I will not put.” The American Heritage Book of English Usage agrees.
The FAQ goes on to say that the Oxford Companion to the English Language (no edition
cited) states that the original was “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which
I will not put.” To me this sounds more likely, and eagerness to avoid the offensive
word “bloody” would help to explain the proliferation of variations.
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From here
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6162 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 60 of 63 25 July 2014 at 12:26pm | IP Logged |
An aposiopesis walks into a ..
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7216 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 61 of 63 23 September 2014 at 8:59am | IP Logged |
Let's eat Grandma.
Let's eat, Grandma.
Commas save lives.
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4900 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 62 of 63 23 September 2014 at 10:01am | IP Logged |
A tme walks into a sis bar.
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| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5070 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew
| Message 63 of 63 24 September 2014 at 9:20am | IP Logged |
A local band is going to play in a bar. The guitarist does a sound check with the microphone. Suddenly, he realizes
the concert will have to be canceled--he's forgotten his instrumental case.
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