I don't believe it was singular thou and plural you. It was formal you and familiar thou, like Japanese has. I base on that on my recollection from reading a book about the history of the English language.
Originally, it was singular thou and plural you, but the influence of Norman French royalty and nobility caused the plural form to take on an additional flavor of formality (think of the "royal 'we'" here). At this point, "thou" was only used for familiar singular, while "you" could be used to indicate formal and/or plural. Eventually, "thou" was not used anywhere other than the Bible and certain religious/ethnic groups, which has led more modern speakers of English to think thou is the formal version!
The apostrophes indicate the missing letters "ou" and "wi".
As much of a prescriptivist grammarian as I am, I recognize that English lost something when singular "thou" was merged into the plural "you" into a numberless second person. Meanwhile, German got to keep "du" for singular.
Words like "y'all" and "youse" are simply attempts to re-establish number in the second person. I prefer the former, but that may be my Midwestern bias showing through. I do like the apostrophe to be put in the right place, though.
What do you call a hockey Mom that preaches 'Abstinence only'?... A grandma!
If the grandma you're thinking of is the former Governor of Alaska, you're thinking wrong:
"I'm pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues," she said during a debate in Juneau.
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Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella said the governor stands by her 2006 statement, supporting sex education that covers both abstinence and contraception.
But don't let the facts get in the way of The Narrative.
I really hate that expression. If there were no gravity "in space", the International Space Station, as well as GPS and communications satellites, wouldn't stay in orbit. For that matter, the moon wouldn't orbit the Earth, and the Earth wouldn't orbit the Sun.
The correct term is "free fall".
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I qualified my statement with Western because it is the western nations that believe in liberty. It is easy to claim that you're better then some 3rd world country with no traditions of freedom.
That has to be one of the more ridiculous things I've ever read. Even though by any objective measure, we allow people more liberty than any other country on the planet, because our standards are higher that somehow makes us worse than totalitarian regimes? You want us to lower our standards in our Constitution, as if that will get the politicians to stop violating it?
Still you would get more respect if you followed your own constitution. As an example the first amendment says that congress shall make no laws limiting speech yet you have child porn laws.
As the father of daughters, and the grandfather of granddaughters, I find child porn laws worse than the problem they purport to solve. But your country has those Orwellian (if not Kafkaesque) "Human Rights Commissions" that muzzle speech.
We fought the bloodiest war in our history (measured in terms of killing the largest percentage of our people) ending it.
Interesting that you qualify that statement with "western"; slavery was officially abolished in China in 1910, but still exists in some regions. It's also quite widespread in Africa.
The country that practiced segregation in living memory
Unlike, say, South Africa, or India (where to this day the Dalits (aka "Untouchables") are segregated:
Dalits are not allowed to drink from the same wells, attend the same temples, wear shoes in the presence of an upper caste, or drink from the same cups in tea stalls
Then there's the religious segregation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran, Saudi Arabia (non-Muslims are forbidden to enter Mecca or Medina). I could go on, but I won't bother.
Call it "propaganda" if you want, but notice which direction the people illegally crossing our borders are going. Look at how the communist East Germany had to put up a wall with border guards under orders to shoot anyone trying to flee to the West (where US, UK, and French authorities permitted a goverment that respected the liberty of the people). If the reality of the liberty in Western Civilization in general, and in the US in particular, were that much worse than the "propaganda", there would be people going the other direction, and even some who came this way going back.
Of course we aren't perfect; no government is. But we are exceptional in the founding principles to which we aspire. Other people have taken notice of the practical value of those principles, and choose to emulate them.
I'm assuming you're american since only an american could have such a completely wrong image of their own country as some kind of beacon of democracy to the rest of the world.
I guess that means the protestors at Tiananmen Square who built a replica of the Statue of Liberty were Americans instead of Chinese.
Come to think of it, maybe you're right. We aren't a beacon of democracy, but of liberty. That democracy invented in Europe 2,000 years ago voted to exile/kill Socrates because they thought his ideas would hurt The Children.
That might explain the lack of editorial review:
"JJ Abram's hugely successful â" on many levels â" reboot of Star Trek"
Who is "JJ Abram"?
Seriously, people. Learn how to use a fracking apostrophe.
The person being killed probably doesn't care much whether he's injected with a lethal poison or shot in the head. The person needing a transplant, on the other hand, cares very much about living a normal life.
Don't you see how this practice encourages the killing to be done in the first place?
I don't get why embryonic stem cells are so 'evil'. The little bastard's already dead; it's RECYCLING!!!
What do you think of the Chinese practice of executing prisoners with a bullet to the head, so that no vital organs are damaged, allowing them to be transplanted to faithful Party hacks, or people willing to pony up the money for them? Would you be cool with the US government doing the same thing?
After all, the guy's going to be killed anyway; It's RECYCLING!!!111eleventy
She's had a lot more political exerience than that, serving in several other elected and appointed offices prior to being elected governor.
It's two years experience as chief executive of the largest state in the country, including being the CinC of its National Guard. How many years executive experience do Senators Obama and Biden have? McCain at least had some command experience in the Navy.
Oh, that's right. Obama ran the Chicago Annenburg Challenge, handing out millions of dollars to politically-correct educational initiatives, while turning down those that aimed to improve math and science performance.
The word doesn't *mean* anything.. it's meaning is agreed upon by the speakers of the language and so long as you know what I'm saying then the word does have that meaning - according to any sensible definition of "meaning".
Take a flying fsck at a rolling donut.*
*by which I really mean "Surely you can see that redefining words to mean something completely different causes problems in apprehending what was meant by the speaker."
The BW response confirms what I have seen whenever something of which I have personal knowledge shows up in the news. They always get things wrong.
There's an old saying: "A lie can make it halfway 'round the world before the truth can get its shoes tied." The 8 million (one year) figure will become carved in stone, and anyone who says otherwise will be "an apologist" for Best Western.
FWIW, I stayed at a Best Western a month ago. The Bride of Monster booked our room with her credit card, so this is not a purely academic matter for me. We've already contacted our bank and suggested they find out exactly what the exposure is.
It's in nVidia's interest to encourage you to buy new hardware.
And how is failing to support their existing hardware going to do that? I'm not going to pay a premium price for hardware that won't give me a long life over which that investment can be amortized. Having an open HW spec reassures me that it can't be orphaned. Having the choice between open drivers (that don't squeeze the last fps out of the hardware) and a closed driver at least reassures me that I can fall back on one of the open drivers. Suboptimal performance beats the hell out of not working at all.
I do no' thin' it means what you thin' it means.
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You have a better sense of "ironic" than the original post author. The Chinese government blocking access to criticism of the Chinese government blocking access to criticism is not "ironic"; it's "recursive".
Whould that not be 'wary' instead of 'weary'? Or "leary", also spelled "leery". I assume that "wary" and "leary" merge together to become "weary" in some minds. It's rather like the confusion some have between "jibe" and "jive", which arguably are antonyms.
(And "would" instead of "whould". The Pedantry Curse strikes again. The only way to avoid it is to deliberately make a mistake like I did in the subject.)
Some people describe C as a "universal assembler", because it's designeed to fit in at the lowest level that doesn't directly describe the hardware, so as to maximize the utility of its portability. It is therefore either the highest low-level language, the lowest high-level language, or it straddles the line. I'd go so far as to say that it defines that line.
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I don't believe it was singular thou and plural you. It was formal you and familiar thou, like Japanese has. I base on that on my recollection from reading a book about the history of the English language.
Thy (recollection of the) book is incomplete.
Originally, it was singular thou and plural you, but the influence of Norman French royalty and nobility caused the plural form to take on an additional flavor of formality (think of the "royal 'we'" here). At this point, "thou" was only used for familiar singular, while "you" could be used to indicate formal and/or plural. Eventually, "thou" was not used anywhere other than the Bible and certain religious/ethnic groups, which has led more modern speakers of English to think thou is the formal version!
I think he means that "you" would be written "ya", in which case there are no letters missing from the first word in the contraction.
If there are no missing letters, there should therefore be no apostrophe at all.
FAIL.
There is no pronunciation of the apostrophe. It merely indicates the missing letters. The remaining letters are "yall" either way.
That a lot of other people misplace apostrophes (or should I say "apostrophe's"?) doesn't mean you should do it too. Y'a'l'l are just wrong.
If it does, then let's contract it:
"you all will"
"y'all'll"
The apostrophes indicate the missing letters "ou" and "wi".
As much of a prescriptivist grammarian as I am, I recognize that English lost something when singular "thou" was merged into the plural "you" into a numberless second person. Meanwhile, German got to keep "du" for singular. Words like "y'all" and "youse" are simply attempts to re-establish number in the second person. I prefer the former, but that may be my Midwestern bias showing through. I do like the apostrophe to be put in the right place, though.
Or dost thou shit me with thy comment?
If the grandma you're thinking of is the former Governor of Alaska, you're thinking wrong:
But don't let the facts get in the way of The Narrative.
My mother is dead, you insensitive clod!
I really hate that expression. If there were no gravity "in space", the International Space Station, as well as GPS and communications satellites, wouldn't stay in orbit. For that matter, the moon wouldn't orbit the Earth, and the Earth wouldn't orbit the Sun. The correct term is "free fall".
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That has to be one of the more ridiculous things I've ever read. Even though by any objective measure, we allow people more liberty than any other country on the planet, because our standards are higher that somehow makes us worse than totalitarian regimes? You want us to lower our standards in our Constitution, as if that will get the politicians to stop violating it?
As the father of daughters, and the grandfather of granddaughters, I find child porn laws worse than the problem they purport to solve. But your country has those Orwellian (if not Kafkaesque) "Human Rights Commissions" that muzzle speech.
We fought the bloodiest war in our history (measured in terms of killing the largest percentage of our people) ending it.
Interesting that you qualify that statement with "western"; slavery was officially abolished in China in 1910, but still exists in some regions. It's also quite widespread in Africa.
Unlike, say, South Africa, or India (where to this day the Dalits (aka "Untouchables") are segregated:
Then there's the religious segregation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran, Saudi Arabia (non-Muslims are forbidden to enter Mecca or Medina). I could go on, but I won't bother.
Call it "propaganda" if you want, but notice which direction the people illegally crossing our borders are going. Look at how the communist East Germany had to put up a wall with border guards under orders to shoot anyone trying to flee to the West (where US, UK, and French authorities permitted a goverment that respected the liberty of the people). If the reality of the liberty in Western Civilization in general, and in the US in particular, were that much worse than the "propaganda", there would be people going the other direction, and even some who came this way going back.
Of course we aren't perfect; no government is. But we are exceptional in the founding principles to which we aspire. Other people have taken notice of the practical value of those principles, and choose to emulate them.
I guess that means the protestors at Tiananmen Square who built a replica of the Statue of Liberty were Americans instead of Chinese.
Come to think of it, maybe you're right. We aren't a beacon of democracy, but of liberty. That democracy invented in Europe 2,000 years ago voted to exile/kill Socrates because they thought his ideas would hurt The Children.
Some things never change.
That might explain the lack of editorial review: "JJ Abram's hugely successful â" on many levels â" reboot of Star Trek" Who is "JJ Abram"? Seriously, people. Learn how to use a fracking apostrophe.
Don't you see how this practice encourages the killing to be done in the first place?
What do you think of the Chinese practice of executing prisoners with a bullet to the head, so that no vital organs are damaged, allowing them to be transplanted to faithful Party hacks, or people willing to pony up the money for them? Would you be cool with the US government doing the same thing? After all, the guy's going to be killed anyway; It's RECYCLING!!!111eleventy
Yeah, but I am Spartacus!
She's had a lot more political exerience than that, serving in several other elected and appointed offices prior to being elected governor.
It's two years experience as chief executive of the largest state in the country, including being the CinC of its National Guard. How many years executive experience do Senators Obama and Biden have? McCain at least had some command experience in the Navy.
Oh, that's right. Obama ran the Chicago Annenburg Challenge, handing out millions of dollars to politically-correct educational initiatives, while turning down those that aimed to improve math and science performance.
Yes, let's talk about her lack of experience.
Take a flying fsck at a rolling donut.*
*by which I really mean "Surely you can see that redefining words to mean something completely different causes problems in apprehending what was meant by the speaker."
There's an old saying: "A lie can make it halfway 'round the world before the truth can get its shoes tied." The 8 million (one year) figure will become carved in stone, and anyone who says otherwise will be "an apologist" for Best Western.
FWIW, I stayed at a Best Western a month ago. The Bride of Monster booked our room with her credit card, so this is not a purely academic matter for me. We've already contacted our bank and suggested they find out exactly what the exposure is.
And how is failing to support their existing hardware going to do that? I'm not going to pay a premium price for hardware that won't give me a long life over which that investment can be amortized. Having an open HW spec reassures me that it can't be orphaned. Having the choice between open drivers (that don't squeeze the last fps out of the hardware) and a closed driver at least reassures me that I can fall back on one of the open drivers. Suboptimal performance beats the hell out of not working at all.
You have a better sense of "ironic" than the original post author. The Chinese government blocking access to criticism of the Chinese government blocking access to criticism is not "ironic"; it's "recursive".
I think the word you're looking for is "tenet".
(And "would" instead of "whould". The Pedantry Curse strikes again. The only way to avoid it is to deliberately make a mistake like I did in the subject.)
"Don't do anything for the first time."
Some people describe C as a "universal assembler", because it's designeed to fit in at the lowest level that doesn't directly describe the hardware, so as to maximize the utility of its portability. It is therefore either the highest low-level language, the lowest high-level language, or it straddles the line. I'd go so far as to say that it defines that line.