GRAMMAR FIENDS

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Blimey, Simon's gone fucking mental.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I think they're cunts

xpost

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i considered trying to find a pertuis family to e-mail and ask. but, worryingly, the top hit when you google "pertuis family" is, er, me wittering on this thread. fuck.

GRIMLY VERSUS EVERYBODE:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/061205pertuises.jpg

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Average lifr expectancy of the Pertuis family

(in 1975, they were attacked in the grammar pogroms. Cries of "But we're a non-lexical item!" went unheeded)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Average life expectancy of the Pertuis family

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Average life expectancy of the Pertuis family

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

What happened in 1976? Did Great-Granny Pertuis serve bad vichyssoise at the family reunion?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

One way of avoiding making a plural of "Pertuis" is to have ONLY ONE PERTUIS. More Vichyssiose!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't trust those charts. The "General Population" line seems to always follow the median of the family in question.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

When the Pertuises flourish, we all flourish. As they decline, we decline.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

When the Pertuis sneeze, we all catch a cold.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The Pertuis, you see,
is you and me.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The whole (offending) paragraph:

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

I think that's fine.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

~~much more~~ captivated

much more interested

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

'much more interested' is a boring way of putting it though.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Is it "expressed permission" or "express permission"?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, obv. the former makes sense, but is the latter some old idiomatic version of it. Actually the example is "express orders", I don't really know why I asked about permission.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"express permission"

express [adj.]
1 a : directly, firmly, and explicitly stated b : EXACT, PRECISE
2 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

Ta. I don't really know why I didn't look in a dictionary. One meaning of express is "definitely stated, not implied". End.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I would think it was "express permission" but I have no real idea why other than that it's the way I pronounce it if saying it (which isn't often), and I tend to be of the opinion that I am right about these things.

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

I thought "another think coming" turned out to be right.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I think there was some controversy and the consensus was that both were acceptable (except that I disagree with consensus because "another thing coming" is completely fucking wrong and lots of people getting something wrong all the time doesn't make it right by default)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Even if "another think coming" is technically right, it's really wrong.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

LET'S NOT, OKAY!?

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

OH GOD, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(xpost, heh)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Another thought coming" would be right but doesn't convey the angry-mumness of "another think coming." Tetchy verbal anger = grammar out the window.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I WILL LOCK THIS FUCKER. I MEAN IT.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Roffle. (Maybe I would like to be an ILE mod, now that I think of it.)

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

t/s: specifically vs. pacifically

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

My bugbear = formerly vs formally

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=%22express+written+consent+of+Major+League+Baseball

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

A cricketing one: how can you describe a batsman playing carefully as a batsman playing 'circumspectly', as many commentators do? If he were playing circumspectly, he'd be looking all around as the ball was delivered, not watching it, getting out, and therefore not playing 'carefully' in the slightest. GRR!!!

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Circumspect: attentive to the consequences of one's behavior.

― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

This I know because the Bible tells me so!

― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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