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FsG
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There are only 4 comments, and none above the score of 1. Must be a new record.
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Already down after 5 replies.
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Anonymous Coward
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Good fucking work slashdot. Try mirroring things kthx.
Not trying to flame but.......
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(Unknown)Tactic
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It's a friday night and people are slashdotting webpages, which means in other words we have absolutely nothing to do(including me)...... unless slashdotting were your plans already.;)
what's better?
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Anonymous Coward
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This rig... or sex with a mare?
Here's one slashdoter's answer:
CARROLLTON -- A Chesterfield man was charged Wednesday with sexually abusing a mare in Macoupin County, even as prosecutors in Greene County filed new charges against him of aggravated cruelty to animals.
Horse owners from the two counties attended Wednesday's preliminary hearing in Greene County Circuit Court for Kevin Eugene McAfee, whose 43rd birthday also was Wednesday. A number of horse owners say they believe McAfee has been sexually abusing their mares oversome 20 years.
Macoupin County State's Attorney Vince Moreth charged McAfee with one count of sexual conduct with an animal, as well as criminal trespass to property and criminal damage to property.
McAfee allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with a mare belonging to Cory Suttles of rural Chesterfield on March 30 of this year. The charges also allege McAfee, on the same date, damaged a padlocked door of a freezer at Suttles' residence in Chesterfield, with damages not exceeding $300, and criminally trespassed on Suttles' land.
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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bersl2
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Excuse me, but around here, we're geeks. That means we always use the subjunctive properly, but we screw spelling and the rest of those silly rules.
BTW; I like semi-colons;
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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frovingslosh
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It should read: "If James Bond were into wardriving..."
No, if you're going to correct someone you should get your facts right. The original sentence was right, you are incorrect. Was is singular. I was into wardriving. He was into wardriving. James Bond was into wardriving . Were is plural. We were into wardriving. They were into wardriving. James Bond and Miss Moneypenny were into wardriving. You wouldn't say "I were into wardriving" or "we was into wardriving" and since James Bond is singular (or a collective noun if you count both Lazerby and Dalton and those other guys, but it's still a singular collective noun) you use the singular was and not the plural were.
Of course, things are a little different if you were talking about ebonics (or, in ebonics, if yous was talkin' 'bout ebonics), but you used the word subjective and there is no such word in ebonics (a.k.a. eubonics).
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Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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Anonvmous+Coward
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"It should read: "If James Bond were into wardriving...""
1.) This is off-topic. 2.) You are wrong. 3.) This is news for nerds, not a grammar lesson.
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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bersl2
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I hate to inform you, but "were" is the correct form here. "Were" is the singular and plural form of the past subjunctive.
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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Anonymous Coward
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"I dunno about you, but I'd rather look at goatse for the REST OF ETERNITY, than see ONE MORE Windoze Server 2003 ad"
Why?
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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Anonymous Coward
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He didn't say anything about that it would be correct. He just said it should read (and let me point out: THIS IS SLASHDOT) he _were_ into wardriving.
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Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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mutterer
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::Cough Cough::
Ahem.
I have someone here who would like a word with you, sir. ::Cough Cough::
James Bond is not, as far as we can tell, into wardriving, therefore this is a contrafactual conditional, or "subjunctive" statement. The subjunctive form of the copula ("to be") happens to be "were," whether it is singular or plural.
I did not use the word "subjective" at all.
If I were you, I would read up on my grammar (that link should help) to avoid looking stupid, which is what you are.
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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tomstdenis
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"He were into wardriving"
Doesn't sound right to me. Maybe because I finished my skoolin?
The only time you use "were" as a singular is for "you" e.g. "you were" not "you was". Otherwise it's "was". e.g. "I was..." and "He was" [or "(name) was"].
Tom
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Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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mutterer
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Thanks for backing me up, but you missed one thing--
the word "you" actually is plural. It's quite a bit like the French "vous." It originally was used either to be polite or to address multiple people at once. "Thou" was the second person singular pronoun, and was considered less polite, even though it may sound more formal to us because it is so seldom used.
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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bersl2
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The only time you use "were" as a singular is for "you."
Incorrect. See here, or look higher up on this post's hierarchy.
Oh, and moderators: Stop wasting your mod points on OT'ing these subjunctive posts of mine (and others); it sends the wrong message to these people who don't know English. So if YOU'RE not going to keep them in line, I will. This, after all, is more important than my personal karma.
Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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kaltkalt
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That's because the sentence you give is not the same. "If he were into wardriving, then...." That is correct. If I were president I would nuke Saudi Arabia. I wish I were tall enough to reach that red button up there. Those use the subjunctive.
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Re:Proper use of subjunctive!
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m00nun1t
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If I were you, I'd learn to distinguish between stupid and unknowledgeable. Those links should help you to distinguish between lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence.
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There are only 4 comments, and none above the score of 1. Must be a new record.
I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
Good fucking work slashdot. Try mirroring things kthx.
It's a friday night and people are slashdotting webpages, which means in other words we have absolutely nothing to do(including me)...... unless slashdotting were your plans already. ;)
This rig... or sex with a mare?
Here's one slashdoter's answer:
CARROLLTON -- A Chesterfield man was charged Wednesday with sexually abusing a mare in Macoupin County, even as prosecutors in Greene County filed new charges against him of aggravated cruelty to animals.
Horse owners from the two counties attended Wednesday's preliminary hearing in Greene County Circuit Court for Kevin Eugene McAfee, whose 43rd birthday also was Wednesday. A number of horse owners say they believe McAfee has been sexually abusing their mares oversome 20 years.
Macoupin County State's Attorney Vince Moreth charged McAfee with one count of sexual conduct with an animal, as well as criminal trespass to property and criminal damage to property.
McAfee allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with a mare belonging to Cory Suttles of rural Chesterfield on March 30 of this year. The charges also allege McAfee, on the same date, damaged a padlocked door of a freezer at Suttles' residence in Chesterfield, with damages not exceeding $300, and criminally trespassed on Suttles' land.
Excuse me, but around here, we're geeks. That means we always use the subjunctive properly, but we screw spelling and the rest of those silly rules.
BTW; I like semi-colons;
No, if you're going to correct someone you should get your facts right. The original sentence was right, you are incorrect. Was is singular. I was into wardriving. He was into wardriving. James Bond was into wardriving . Were is plural. We were into wardriving. They were into wardriving. James Bond and Miss Moneypenny were into wardriving. You wouldn't say "I were into wardriving" or "we was into wardriving" and since James Bond is singular (or a collective noun if you count both Lazerby and Dalton and those other guys, but it's still a singular collective noun) you use the singular was and not the plural were.
Of course, things are a little different if you were talking about ebonics (or, in ebonics, if yous was talkin' 'bout ebonics), but you used the word subjective and there is no such word in ebonics (a.k.a. eubonics).
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
"It should read: "If James Bond were into wardriving...""
1.) This is off-topic.
2.) You are wrong.
3.) This is news for nerds, not a grammar lesson.
I hate to inform you, but "were" is the correct form here. "Were" is the singular and plural form of the past subjunctive.
"I dunno about you, but I'd rather look at goatse for the REST OF ETERNITY, than see ONE MORE Windoze Server 2003 ad"
Why?
He didn't say anything about that it would be correct. He just said it should read (and let me point out: THIS IS SLASHDOT) he _were_ into wardriving.
Posting as AC for my own safety since 1999
::Cough Cough::
::Cough Cough::
Ahem.
I have someone here who would like a word with you, sir.
James Bond is not, as far as we can tell, into wardriving, therefore this is a contrafactual conditional, or "subjunctive" statement. The subjunctive form of the copula ("to be") happens to be "were," whether it is singular or plural.
I did not use the word "subjective" at all.
If I were you, I would read up on my grammar (that link should help) to avoid looking stupid, which is what you are.
"He were into wardriving"
..." and "He was" [or "(name) was"].
Doesn't sound right to me. Maybe because I finished my skoolin?
The only time you use "were" as a singular is for "you" e.g. "you were" not "you was". Otherwise it's "was". e.g. "I was
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Thanks for backing me up, but you missed one thing-- the word "you" actually is plural. It's quite a bit like the French "vous." It originally was used either to be polite or to address multiple people at once. "Thou" was the second person singular pronoun, and was considered less polite, even though it may sound more formal to us because it is so seldom used.
The only time you use "were" as a singular is for "you."
Incorrect. See here, or look higher up on this post's hierarchy.
Oh, and moderators: Stop wasting your mod points on OT'ing these subjunctive posts of mine (and others); it sends the wrong message to these people who don't know English. So if YOU'RE not going to keep them in line, I will. This, after all, is more important than my personal karma.
Must have a narrow urethra.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of neurons.
That's because the sentence you give is not the same. "If he were into wardriving, then...." That is correct. If I were president I would nuke Saudi Arabia. I wish I were tall enough to reach that red button up there. Those use the subjunctive.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
If I were you, I'd learn to distinguish between stupid and unknowledgeable. Those links should help you to distinguish between lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence.
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1.) So who's post is at -1, Offtopic?
2.) He is right.
3.) I can't think of anyone nerdier than a copy editor.
Getting that wrong is unkowledgavle.
Doing a long rant about something you are not sure about and spewing mis-information is stupid.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Must have forgotten to terminate an tag.
yes, I posted:
<i>They slashdotted my penix!</>
You must have low throughput.
It's alright, I hit that moderator with an Unfair meta-mod. They'll get the picture after a while, assuming we're in the majority.
If we're not, then let the majority rule.
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