Loosing

[FastEddieB]

My mom taught me never to end a sentence with a proposition!

 

[Palmpilot]

Reminds me with the quip apparently misattributed to Winston Churchill, about "nonsense up with which I will not put."

An interesting analysis of the problem:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.html

 

[JOhnH]

Reminds me with the quip apparently misattributed to Winston Churchill, about "nonsense up with which I will not put."

An interesting analysis of the problem:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.html

It reminds me of the old joke where a guy on the Harvard campus asked a passerby where the library was at.
The passerby huffed "At Harvard, we don't end sentences with prepositions".
Whereby, the guy rephrased his question to "I'm sorry. Can you tell me where the library is at; azzhole".

 

[Sundancer]

Shakespeare did it.

"It out-Herods Herod."

We stand on the shoulders of giants. . .

 

[timwinters]

I get a big kick out of peoples use of apostrophe's in plural's and possessive's'.

 

[Piperonca]

Batter instead of battery. Rare but cringeworthy.

 

[bflynn]

I get a big kick out of peoples use of apostrophe's in plural's and possessive's'.

I do too, but I must confess that I don't understand the rules for its and it's. I just go with whatever Word tells me to correct it to.

 

[Palmpilot]

I do too, but I must confess that I don't understand the rules for its and it's. I just go with whatever Word tells me to correct it to.

It's = "it is."

Its = possessive form of "it," but the possessive form of "one" is "one's."

Nobody ever said English was easy!

 

[timwinters]

 

[deonb]

And we shoudn't verb our nouns, either.

Since "verb" is a noun, "verb our nouns" verbs a noun...

 

[PaulS]

Since "verb" is a noun, "verb our nouns" verbs a noun...

What about nouning a verb?

 

[deonb]

What about nouning a verb?

Now that is an interesting ask.

 

[JScarry]

Why do so many otherwise intelligent people continually get the "punctuation with quotation marks wrong"?

Fixed it for you.

 

[denverpilot]

Now that is an interesting ask.

Did you axe him something?

 

[PaulS]

Did you axe him something?

Prolly

 

[Sundancer]

Since "verb" is a noun, "verb our nouns" verbs a noun...

that was kinda the point. . .

 

[Pilawt]

Since "verb" is a noun, "verb our nouns" verbs a noun...

Gerunding nouns a verb. Of course in this example we had to verb a noun ('gerund') before we could noun it.

... I think.

 

[SkyDog58]

My mom taught me never to end a sentence with a proposition!

A proposition can result in a sentence.

 

[mscard88]

A proposition can result in a sentence.

Not if you're slick, like that former President.

 

[Palmpilot]

Not if you're slick, like that former President.

Or if you don't bother with the proposition, like the current president.

 

[mscard88]

Or if you don't bother with the proposition, like the current president.

Lol true.

 

[Piperonca]

Anyways...