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imajica said:
when people use double negatives it really s**ts me!

ie- "I don't know nothing"

Springer-English or "Bling-lish" as I like to call it!
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A University professor of mine said there are cases where there is a positive and a negative which results in a negative, there are cases where there are two negatives which result in a positive, there are cases where two positives result in a positive, however there are no cases where two positives result in a negative.

I said "Yeah, Right".

 
Truth tables. Easy.
 
How about "I've finished them ones" or "where do you want them ones?"

nasty stuff that.
 
or "I love you'se all "
still when you've just been through a boxing match I imagine your grammar lessons have been knocked into your distant memories lol
 
2020hindsight said:
or "I love you'se all "
still when you've just been through a boxing match I imagine your grammar lessons have been knocked into your distant memories lol
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or how about "where do you'se want them ones?"

hehehe
 
Hi guys and gals,

I was reading the grammar forum and something popped into my head which I have a great frustration with, and then found this thread, which has not been used for a long time and thought it more appropriate to place my rant in here.

The letter Z.

My blood boils when I see and hear inappropriate used of the letter Z in Australia, and I feel we have Microsoft and Sesame Street to blame for this.

Firstly, when you spell realize, the word is realise. Please check your spell check is on the correct setting,

Secondly, the letter is pronounced ZED, not ZEE as Elmo would have us believe,

Thirdly, it is not cute or fun to z your s's on the end of wordz, you are not a homey from the hood, and should give yourself more credit than that, and

Lastly, plz dnt cht 2 me lyke tis, I am not 3 years old..... (Although after writing this I feel older than my 80 year old grandmother.)

Peace whippersnappers


(Funnily enough I just spellchecked the above in Word and whippersnappers didn’t get picked up... hmmm…)
 
antidisestablishmentarianism

The longest word is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
 
or "I love you'se all "
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Many years ago I was at the offices of a large, well known company to install some equipment. While waiting for the office manager I was reading some of the stuff on the notice board. One was a Thank You card from a young woman who had been on work experience. She wrote, amongst other things, "Thank use all."
 
the letter is pronounced ZED, not ZEE as Elmo would have us believe
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When I was about 6 (1950 or thereabouts) I saw the following in an American comic:

Q. What's the coldest row in the cinema? A. Z row.

To me that was Zed row and didn't make sense. I asked my dad to explain it and that's when I learnt that the Americans say Zee.
 
Okay,

For me it's people who don't know the difference between 'bought' and 'brought'

'bought' = past tense of sold

'brought' = past tense of bring

Having said that I do have a tendency to capitalise in the middle of sentences - go figure.

Z
 
'bought' = past tense of sold? I'm not buying that.
 
Don't you mean "bought" - past tense of buy?
 
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