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It is literally a shttt show. Enough, THought, Bough......wr words wrestle write .....know now row knee knot ....war wart and car cartOriginally Posted by pjohns
THere are others even worse but my age causes me to forget. said and maid would could sound
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And what's with changing the damned rules for Oxford commas? It used to be you separated items in a list with commas. Now, you omit the last comma? Dang leftists have ruined the English language. Consider the following:
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“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naďve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken
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I was taught you never put a comma before the word "and" so the last comma in the first instance would be considered bad grammar.
HoneyBadger (12-10-2022)
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I was taught the opposite. Probably I'm older than you by a bit.
A few simple examples show that omitting it changes the meaning of the sentence entirely.
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naďve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken
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Or the British practice of H's and A's
Henry becomes Enry
Harry becomes Arry
Herbert is Erbert
Alice becomes Halice.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
LescoBrandon (11-29-2022),pjohns (11-30-2022)
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It's more of a regional habit. Britian, never mind Great Britain, has a lot of regional dialects - probably as many as you find in the US, all packed into one small island. They even have multiple dialects within London. Some regions in Britian, including East London, have a habit of h-dropping, but not all. It's not considered proper pronunciation (per RP (received pronunciation)) and tends to be viewed as a sign of being poorly educated or coming from a working-class background. H-dropping is discouraged in schools.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
pjohns (11-30-2022)
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You wouldn't want to have to pronounce those 'gh' words as they were originally pronounced, which was very much the way the Scots pronounce loch - with a phlegm clearing sound at the end, now pronounced typically as an 'f', with some exceptions where it is pronounced as 'ow' or 'oow'. Would, could and should are even more interesting. Could was once the old English word cuđe, pronounced as 'cooth'. Should evolved from sceolde and would from wolde. Of course, the letter 'L' was pronounced in both. 'Sc' was pronounced as we pronounce 'sh'. I believe the word said was originally pronounced as 'sayed'.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Go to Kalifornia, learn some spanglish.
pjohns (11-30-2022)
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Why not just omit the preposition "at" altogether?
(I do not care for the bluenose "rule" that one should never end a sentence with a preposition--there are some sentences, such as "Where will you be coming from?," that definitely suggest such an ending--but the obverse of that, "Where are you going to?," indicates no purpose for the ending proposition. In other words, it is entirely superfluous.)
Peter1469 (12-04-2022)
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I had friend in Europe that used to also act as the translator in the meeting because the French refused to speak English (corporate language). He spoke 7 languages but said that English was the worst.
His complaints were too many words meaning the same thing, too many individual words meaning different things and too much slang.
Let's go Brandon !!!
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