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monster 07-11-2020 05:40 PM

Would Sundae have been happy or horrified?
 
Irregardless is now in the dictionary

sexobon 07-11-2020 06:30 PM

déjà vu & déjà déjà vu

monster 07-11-2020 08:50 PM

from Noboxes' link
Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 999902)
Bullshit, English is rain, it does it’s work all over the land in words. The river is draining the excess rain, the river is a sewer. The river doesn’t change the rain, the rain changes the river.

Its.

assuming this was irrepurposeful... ;)

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Hey, Noboxes, did you ever consider -given the title of the thread- that this was more about remembering Sundae than language?

Fortunately, Wanker has been in the Dicktionary for a long, long time.

sexobon 07-11-2020 09:30 PM

Hey, mony, did you ever consider - given the title of the thread and that I linked to a discussion Sundae never got a chance to see - that this was more about how it would have affected the answer to your question had Sundae seen it, than language?

BTW, that word was already in the dictionary and as the article you linked says - It's not new.

BigV 07-11-2020 09:35 PM

In horrified on her behalf.

xoxoxoBruce 07-11-2020 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 1055120)
from Noboxes' link

Its.

assuming this was irrepurposeful... ;)

Use an apostrophe when "it is" can be substituted, or to indicate possession.
It's the work of the rain, it belongs to the rain, therefore possessive.

sexobon 07-11-2020 09:51 PM

I can buy that you were possessed when you did that.

monster 07-11-2020 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1055130)
Use an apostrophe when "it is" can be substituted, or to indicate possession.
It's the work of the rain, it belongs to the rain, therefore possessive.

it does it is work all over the land

The possessive and the other one are not interchangeable here, I think you misunderstand But its OK ...I just balanced it up for you ;) yw :)

xoxoxoBruce 07-11-2020 10:22 PM

You're right, I don't understand. The apostrophe is used for contraction or for possession, and sometimes not at all.
That's clear as mud, but it covers the ground.:rolleyes:

Carruthers 07-12-2020 03:13 AM

Ask this chap...


fargon 07-12-2020 08:13 AM

I don't know what Sundae would say because she is not here.

Urbane Guerrilla 07-30-2020 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1055136)
You're right, I don't understand. The apostrophe is used for contraction or for possession, and sometimes not at all.
That's clear as mud, but it covers the ground.:rolleyes:

"Sometimes???" Nouns put the apostrophe. Pronouns do not -- owing to the otherwise inevitable confusion and ambiguity representing the contractions would bring.

Sounds are identical; on the page at least you can tell them apart.

Recommended Reading: Lynn Truss' Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. (The title is indeed the panda joke.) Break out your highlighter if you need to. It contains some memorable remarks on mishandled apostrophes. It posits a growing suspicion that greengrocers are deploying them as a sales tool. To English majors and the Amateur Association Against Apostrophe Abuse, at least.

Aliantha 08-02-2020 08:20 PM

I vote horrified.

monster 08-02-2020 10:50 PM

I think so too -she really enjoyed using it because it wan't a word. kind of extracts the fun.... but then, mebbe her use was part of the general use that got it added.....

Aliantha 08-03-2020 02:44 AM

She'll be turning in her grave if that's the case!


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