― stet (stet), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
You would recognise that 'Adams' (or if you like 'Adames') was the plural of 'Adam' rather than a singular 'Adams' because it would be followed by, e.g., 'are' rather than 'is'.
Also, there are no instances in English (I say this hoping to be proved wrong on this, by means of jokes if necessary) where an 'e' is introduced in the plural form where that 'e' is not pronounced.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost. Yes, Pertuix is the prettiest.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
mais nous ne sommes pas francais, donc ... meh :)
The French forms are retained because there is no other, sensible, option.
yes. english orthography is noted for "sense", isn't it?
eh? i'm talking about the surname "adams", not "the adams" as a plural of "the family whose surname is adams". but you're obviously determined to plough this singular furrow, and to be quite brutally frank i couldn't give less of a fuck as there's a whole city's worth of beer out there for me to drink (just as soon as mrs fiendish is ready, chiz).
ailsa: not sure. if i do, i will, but i've no idea what form the night is going to take :/
― grimly fiendish (simon), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost, ha, right, that'll be the day that you're too drunk to argue about grammar...
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
The COD has it as either dos or - haha - do's.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 2 December 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 3 December 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
i went to school with a girl whose surname was proudfoot. i can't remember whether it was her or someone else who insisted that the plural was proudfeet, but...whoever it was should have been right.
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Sunday, 3 December 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
How can I fix:
"My students seemed to be more impressed by my car, which my family and I were standing in front of in the photo."
The comma doesn't work there, I know, but then it doesn't work without it either. I could fix the whole thing by replacing "My car" with "the car", but then that wouldn't indicate that it was my own vehicle.
― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
"My studnets seemed to be much more captivated by the object that my family and I were standing in front of: my car."
Sigh.
― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Although studnet should probably be a word meaning someone who always catches "hot studs".
― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
?
why not?
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 4 December 2006 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link
This is for a letter of intention for grad school, by the way. I'm trying to connect a story about my student's interest in my car while I was teaching in China to a broader point about future geopolitical conflict between China and the US.
― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 4 December 2006 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 4 December 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― G. Samsa (G. Samsa), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― G. Samsa (G. Samsa), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Silent SIf a word ends in an unpronounced s, make it plural by ignoring it—don’t add an s, an apostrophe, or anything else.
― G. Samsa (G. Samsa), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost indeed
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
into Google, you'll come up with several hits confirming my position, and none confirming yours
OH NOES THE MIGHT OF THE INTERNET IS AGAINST ME. I MUST VOTE FOR DAVID CAMERON/SAY "SHOULD OF" INSTEAD OF "SHOULD HAVE"/SPEND ALL DAY LOOKING AT BRITNEY'S VAGINA.
we need a new version of godwin's law: "when someone says 'ah, but google says this', the entire internet should be deleted." or similar.
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
hey! i've just remembered. i have mod powers in the sandbox. don't make me lock this thread, people. just don't.
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
During my second month teaching English in China, I decided to show the students a picture of myself taken after my college graduation. I passed the photo around, expecting them to be interested in my mother and sister’s blonde hair, my cap and gown, and the American scenery in the background. Instead, they seemed to be much more captivated by the object that my family and I were standing in front of: my car. Soon, instead of learning words like graduation, tassel, and diploma, my students were saying Ford, driver’s license, and gas station. Although the class itself didn’t go as I had planned, I did learn something firsthand about the aspirations of China’s future.
I'm displaying the whole paragraph for context. Please feel free to evaluate, or reevaluate. And, thanks.
― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
or
much more interested
― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
express [adj.]1 a : directly, firmly, and explicitly stated b : EXACT, PRECISE2 a : designed for or adapted to its purpose b : of a particular sort : SPECIFIC
― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Please note that I'm in the "another think coming" camp, and invented the word Pertuix, so am possibly not to be trusted.
(xpost, or perhaps I am!)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
(xpost, heh)
― grimly fiendish (simon), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (simon), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link