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Things we should do away with

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Killick, May 15, 2011.

  1. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    tart, you are always my heart. in.
     
  2. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    salary cap, baseball would be better with.
     
  3. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Well now you're just being Yoda.
     
  4. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    snarf
     
  5. Mark McGwire

    Mark McGwire Member

    Did someone say Yoda?
     
  6. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Snarf, Cosmo? Not the word ending in "f" I expected from you.
     
  7. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    People cling to tightly to language as they learned? What kind of pace for language change was this hip professor advocating?
    Rewriting the rules of grammar in a generation is pretty cutting edge.
    And I wasn't saying that a change is logical or illogical in and of itself. I am saying that to advocate for one change because it harkens back to a root language of more than 1,000 years ago while at the same time ignoring the other ways in which English does not follow the rules of that root language would be illogical.
    of

    In another Germanic tradition, it can be summed up in a single word: thatdoesntmakeanysense.
     
  8. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    I did not bring up the roots of the English language on this thread nor did I mention how the professor I spoke of felt about it from that perspective. You are mixing up my posts with those of others.
     
  9. 3OctaveFart

    3OctaveFart Guest

    Serious question, do all three of you guys post hot-seat style?
    Or did Dad splurge for three computers this time?
    You know, somebody's actually going to have to clean up the ball-sweat stench of your shared chair.
     
  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Not one of those three sentences made a lick of sense to me.
     
  11. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Wrong with being Yoda, what is?
     
  12. secretariat

    secretariat Active Member

    I think he's saying we're all losers who live in our parents' basement. But our parents are the same. Which means we're brothers. So can I borrow some money? I'm sure you have more than me.
     
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