Dupre,
less is not a negative. And there are many exceptions to the double negative rule.
Irregardless and supposably.
I crack up everytime I hear those words spoken.
Put 'em on the table.
A QUIZ.
(I think it is for stupid people.) Looks easy. I shall report back.
Cool quiz, Sofia! Amazingly enough, I got ten out of ten correct! Cool beans!
Yep. I was right. It is for stupid people.
I just didn't realize I was one of them.
I MISSED 4 of 10.
RIGGED!
I missed lay/laid.....it's/its........as if he were/is..........can't remember the other.
The indignity!
Rae-- You bees smart!
I gots me an edamacashun, Sofia!
I feel bad, because I guessed "badly" and I knew betterly.
Craven, you are right, but it "doesn't hardly" matter.
My partner has it in for split infinites. I get my best laughs from tautology, which I think is one of the few good indicators of the types of thought going on inside people's heads.
Still, English can't be half as bad as Deutsch. Imagine having some-one rattle through the subject/s, the settings, the gender and then dropping dead before they get to the last bit - the goddam verb that actually tells you what those previous grammatical entities were up to! Gott in Himmel!
It don't make no never mind
I guess it's not grammatically incorrect, but my ex-hubby has such a habit of stating his opinions as A, B, C, etc.
Drives me nuts.
A, B, C, no wonder he's an ex!!!
Now, if he were stating your wonderful attributes that way, well, that's a whole 'nother story.
Mr. Stillwater, I'm confused. Someone died before telling you about verbs? What?
And what's tautology? Please explain. Thanks.
Ways of thinking ...now there's a subject. Rae, your ex was very comfortable with outline form, and may or may not have been fearful of edging outside it. I don't think that is just a speaking mannerism, but a whole thinking pattern, which he was trying to convey.
