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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    RabidDeathMoose wrote: »
    The Geek wrote: »
    I hate ending written sentences with prepositions because it's technically improper grammar, but switching around the whole sentence to make it work makes it look odd and so I sometimes just let it go.

    I hate doing that too... O_o


    I TOO HATE DOING THAT!

    Too isn't a preposition (I'm pretty sure). It's fine to use at the end of a sentence but I believe there technically should be a comma.

    "I hate doing that, too."

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I have my huge dictionary out, guys.

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  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Nucsh wrote: »
    Y'all is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'you all'

    As long as you spell it out "Y'all" and not "Ya'll"

    y'all in text form has always bugged me and i dont know why

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Mavinash wrote: »
    ITT: people vent anger over lingual and dialectic evolution.

    I said that and Nucsh called me stupid. :cry:
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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Nucsh wrote: »
    Y'all is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'you all'

    As long as you spell it out "Y'all" and not "Ya'll"
    I've had it justified to me as a contraction of "ya all," which almost makes sense in Southern dialect, but as someone who has lived in the South his entire life, I still reject that form.

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  • RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    The Geek wrote: »
    RabidDeathMoose wrote: »
    The Geek wrote: »
    I hate ending written sentences with prepositions because it's technically improper grammar, but switching around the whole sentence to make it work makes it look odd and so I sometimes just let it go.

    I hate doing that too... O_o


    I TOO HATE DOING THAT!

    Too isn't a preposition (I'm pretty sure). It's fine to use at the end of a sentence but I believe there technically should be a comma.

    "I hate doing that, too."


    "I also hate doing that."

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    Nucsh wrote: »
    Y'all is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'you all'

    As long as you spell it out "Y'all" and not "Ya'll"

    It still makes one sound like an inbred hick when one uses it.

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  • MavinashMavinash Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    tsplitter wrote: »
    I hate it when people use the word like in every fucking sentence

    I have witnessed a girl use "like," "um," "uh," and "you know" more times in a sentence than actual words that express her thought.

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Nucsh wrote: »
    Y'all is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'you all'

    As long as you spell it out "Y'all" and not "Ya'll"

    Then again "you all come here a minute" isn't such a shining example of grammatical correctitude, even with the contractions removed.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    too is an adverb.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I pronounce the "l" in salmon because I don't discriminate against the letter l.

    That "o" in opossum, though? Fuck that guy.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    Jordyn wrote: »
    I have my huge dictionary out, guys.

    Watashi no jisho wa ooki kute fuben desu.

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  • NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You'ins is leagues worse than y'all ever could be

    And y'all isn't just a southern saying anymore, and can sound positively divine with the right accent

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  • SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Nationality and ethnicity.

    One of them is citizenship status, the other is racial background.

    IS IT REALLY THAT HARD?

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2007
    I say "clothes" with the "th".

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  • MavinashMavinash Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    The Geek wrote: »
    Nucsh wrote: »
    Y'all is a perfectly acceptable contraction of 'you all'

    As long as you spell it out "Y'all" and not "Ya'll"

    It still makes one sound like an inbred hick when one uses it.

    Or someone who uses it to replace "you all?"

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    "Y'all" would be fine if it wasn't used to replace the plural and singular forms of "you" in every single sentence.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    There was one time a couple years back when someone asked to have the purpose of using proper grammar explained without using the letter E. I came up with something which I really should have saved. I remember Framling really loved it, though. Maybe he saved it.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Also anytime somebody gives me shit over pronunciation I just tell them that I speak Texican.

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  • RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Bogey wrote: »
    I say "clothes" with the "th".

    how... how else COULD one say that?

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  • MavinashMavinash Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Sami wrote: »
    Nationality and ethnicity.

    One of them is citizenship status, the other is racial background.

    IS IT REALLY THAT HARD?

    No, but they are usually the same thing for people.

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  • EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    buffalo buffalo fubbalo labbafo labbfoa labia penis

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  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Weaver wrote: »
    Also anytime somebody gives me shit over pronunciation I just tell them that I speak Texican.

    I just tell them to fuck off

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I still say "or-IDGE-in" sometimes.
    Look, nobody ever said "origin" to me before, ok? Why would they?

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    tsplitter wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Also anytime somebody gives me shit over pronunciation I just tell them that I speak Texican.

    I just tell them to fuck off

    My way gets them to shut up without creating hostility.

    Weaver on
  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    The Geek wrote: »
    It's fine to use at the end of a sentence but I believe there technically should be a comma.

    "I hate doing that, too."
    It's really, really context dependent. Adding the comma mostly is a matter of emphasis.

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  • MavinashMavinash Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    tsplitter wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Also anytime somebody gives me shit over pronunciation I just tell them that I speak Texican.

    I just tell them to fuck off

    I've had people tell me I have a Texas accent despite not having one. This of course only comes out after I tell them where I'm from.

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  • RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    JamSessionEin wrote: »
    buffalo buffalo fubbalo labbafo labbfoa labia penis

    Oh come on 5 words? It could be argued that the first thing that comes to (admittedly depraved) mind when someone says Buffalo is penis... what? :winky:

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  • MenaceMenace regular
    edited March 2007
    RabidDeathMoose wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    I say "clothes" with the "th".

    how... how else COULD one say that?

    usually people say it like "close" as in the action

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  • EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    RabidDeathMoose wrote: »
    JamSessionEin wrote: »
    buffalo buffalo fubbalo labbafo labbfoa labia penis

    Oh come on 5 words? It could be argued that the first thing that comes to (admittedly depraved) mind when someone says Buffalo is penis... what? :winky:

    I want to rename all Buffalos into Fubbalos.

    I like that word a lot better.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I slur a lot of consonant sounds.

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  • DaySleeperDaySleeper regular
    edited March 2007
    I dislike that organic has come to mean food on which no pesticides, etc. has been used. It strongly implies that other food is inorganic which is just straight-up wrong.

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  • RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Weaver wrote: »
    I slur a lot of consonant sounds.

    I do that too if I'm not careful. Although lately I've made the effort not to after getting annoyed with people who do exactly that. It's tough when you speak quickly though.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    y'all pron. Cheifly Southern US variant of you-all

    Regional Note The single most famous feature of southern United States dialect is the pronoun you-all, often heard in its variant y'all. This plural form of you allows speakers to make the singular/plural distinction that English used to have in thou/you. When a single person is addressed as you-all, the speaker is not just referring to the person present, but to people associated with that person, such as relatives: Did you-all (that is, you and the others) have dinner yet? Other regions have their own plural forms of you. Some speakers in Northeast and in Ireland say youse, while speakers in western Pennsylvania and the Appalachians say you-uns. Broadly in the Northern US, the form you guys has arisen to serve this same function, and it appears to spreading throughout the nation.

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    "I don't like stradgedy games, they're boring"

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  • CalliusCallius Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Weaver wrote: »
    I slur a lot of consonant sounds.
    Is it because you're a drunkard?

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Lord Dave wrote: »
    "Y'all" would be fine if it wasn't used to replace the plural and singular forms of "you" in every single sentence.

    no one who actually lives in the south really uses y'all for the singular

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    I hate it when people shorten the word refridgerator into frig. It should be fridge.

    When I see it as frig, it makes me want to say it that way, as in rhyming with big.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Read what I just posted from my goddamn dictionary.

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  • AximAxim Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE NATION

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