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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2014 13:58:38 GMT -4
This is hilarious and I love that she took the time to add a little silliness to the world, but... is it me or is there a comma missing in her letter as well?
"While my love for my dog is deep, he married a dog named Maggie..."
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Post by Mugsy on Nov 6, 2014 14:29:17 GMT -4
That was my first thought.
Physician, punctuate thyself.
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wilbert
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Post by wilbert on Dec 25, 2014 16:43:05 GMT -4
ok, I'm 52 so maybe it is a generational thing. Headline reads ......"hatred for xmas".... I thought the preposition was of, hatred of something, not hatred for something. Since I'm thinking about it, when did "making love with" supersede "make love to" someone? Thanks in advance for the preposition tutorial.
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Post by chonies on Dec 25, 2014 19:31:28 GMT -4
I can't answer about hatred but I think the preposition with "make love" changed when the meaning changed from flirting/woo-pitching to sexing, with makes it a shared activity. Make love to is still correct but I think that "with" is also correct only in the newer meaning of the verb phrase.
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Post by chonies on Feb 3, 2015 22:43:06 GMT -4
This Wikipedia editor's mission is to rid entries of " comprised of."
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Post by chonies on Mar 15, 2015 10:18:53 GMT -4
Kind of a feminism question, too:
Is it common in languages other than English to preface a mid-conversation disagreement with the equivalent of "I'm sorry but..."? Some friends and I were musing about the teen girl/female people in general habit of apologizing for existing, and then this led me to wonder if this happens in other contexts--there's a lot of work in linguistics that documents women using more buffer-type speech before they express an opinion*, but most of those are focused on US English speakers.
*example--a man would be more likely to say something like, "Manchester United sucks." A woman could express the same opinion but add any or all of the following in preface: "I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend you, but I think, in my opinion, to be fair," etc. Anecdatally, I personally prefer some of these in a forum context because it helps shape conversational tone in a vacuum, but face to face they're often kind of annoying.
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Post by smitten on Mar 15, 2015 11:09:15 GMT -4
I think that's an interesting point and I wonder if the pre-apologizing thing is a recent phenomenon too. When I went to college in Minnesota I remember being very taken aback by everyone Pre-apologizing for everything that came out of their mouths. This was in the mid 90s. After my sister lived there for a while too, she started doing it so badly and I told her to quit it with "the Minnesota thing!" (No offense to Minnesotans)
I strongly associated it with a regional/upper Midwestern thing, but it does seem to have become pervasive. Maybe the Internet has made it worse, since tone doesn't come across in writing and no one wants to be accused of trolling.
Maybe it's TWOP's fault. Can we just blame Howard?
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Post by chonies on Mar 15, 2015 11:22:01 GMT -4
I've read about the connection between "Minnesota nice" and passive aggressive speaking, so I'm interested that you made the connection to pre apologizing in a gendered sense. I think of the preapologizing in girls is more closely linked to apologizing to shrubbery or moving out of the way before a male person does, but obviously there is a lot to think about.
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chiquita
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Post by chiquita on May 6, 2015 11:11:05 GMT -4
I just saw this and thought you'd all enjoy it. It's about the Wikipedia editor chonies posted about in February.
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Post by ratscabies on Jun 9, 2015 12:22:04 GMT -4
Presented without comment: link
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