Actually, some current thought interprets the frequent use of "like" as the language developing a sort of verbal opening quotation mark.
Maybe, but typically, I see "he was like" more along the lines of "he used the mannerism that I am about to imitate and said", as opposed to just "he said".
Can you bring the table downstairs?" (The asking party is to stay upstairs.)
To me, the grammar is still wanting here and wrong; the party should have said, "Can you take the table downstairs?"
Ridiculous, on multiple levels.
First, using "bring" for what has typically been regarded as the purview of "take" is not a difference of grammar. It's a difference of vocabulary. A difference of grammar would be "Table can you downstairs take".
Second, and more importantly, words change in meaning over time. This is completely natural, it has been happening ever since there was language in the first place, and there is nothing inherently wrong with it. Such a change is currently happening to "bring". Get over it.
While only a small percentage of Anglo Saxon words remained the lexicon, the syntax of the language stayed.
That's simply false. For example, here's an Old English version of the Lord's Prayer, with the vocabulary, but not the grammar, translated into Modern English:
Father our thou that art in heavens be thy name hallowed come thy kingdom be-done thy will on earth as in heavens our daily bread give us today and forgive us our sins as we forgive those-who-have-sinned-against-us and not lead thou us into temptation but deliver us from evil. truly.
Latin was not "devised from Greek". There were significant borrowings, but to say that Latin was devised from Greek is along the lines of saying that French was devised from Spanish. Proto-Italic and Proto-Hellenic had split off from each other long before there was a "Latin" or "Greek".
Fuck the FCC. What gives them the right to decide that a word is improper? It's a fucking word. Get over it. If it's ok to convey the idea how can it possibly be wrong to convey it with a certain word?
And could you have said that without making it sound offensive? Without the gratuitous use of the word fuck it may actually have had some merit as a statement.
Yes, I say we ban all phonemes which, in our language, carry implications of offense and/or hostility.
But, if you say something like "dag nabbit", your brain has clearly had time to consider saying "fuck" and discarded it as vulgar. Hence, you've taken time to think about what you're saying, and your comment gets stored in a different location of the listening child's brain (and they go to a different place in the listening adult's brain).
That's not even remotely true.
I say "DOH!" because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, not because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, searched for a word, came up with "FUCK!", decided it was too vulgar, and settled on "DOH!".
"The title "Much Ado About Nothing," Dr. McWhorter said, is a word play on "Much Ado About an O Thing," the O thing being a reference to female genitalia."
Parent may be "4, Interesting", but nonetheless is factually incorrect.
He didn't replace distance with angles, nor is one of the two "the fundamental element of trig" - they are together the fundemental elements of (standard) trigonometry.
What he actually did was that he replaced distance with distance squared and angles with sine squared.
Yes, let's get out of this recently fashionable trend of teaching the servant class principles of abstract thought, and getting back to the time-honored tradition of getting them to grow our food from an early age.
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Me was very creative here: maybe if we sprache like this it were still korrects in the eyes of linguists.
If we actually did sprache like that? Then yes, it would be korrects, to the extent that language can be in the first place.
"Correct" is not really an applicable term for language. "Accepted" is more accurate, and the two are not at all the same.
Actually, some current thought interprets the frequent use of "like" as the language developing a sort of verbal opening quotation mark.
Maybe, but typically, I see "he was like" more along the lines of "he used the mannerism that I am about to imitate and said", as opposed to just "he said".
Can you bring the table downstairs?" (The asking party is to stay upstairs.)
To me, the grammar is still wanting here and wrong; the party should have said, "Can you take the table downstairs?"
Ridiculous, on multiple levels.
First, using "bring" for what has typically been regarded as the purview of "take" is not a difference of grammar. It's a difference of vocabulary. A difference of grammar would be "Table can you downstairs take".
Second, and more importantly, words change in meaning over time. This is completely natural, it has been happening ever since there was language in the first place, and there is nothing inherently wrong with it. Such a change is currently happening to "bring". Get over it.
While only a small percentage of Anglo Saxon words remained the lexicon, the syntax of the language stayed.
That's simply false. For example, here's an Old English version of the Lord's Prayer, with the vocabulary, but not the grammar, translated into Modern English:
Father our thou that art in heavens
be thy name hallowed
come thy kingdom
be-done thy will
on earth as in heavens
our daily bread give us today
and forgive us our sins
as we forgive those-who-have-sinned-against-us
and not lead thou us into temptation
but deliver us from evil. truly.
It's fascinating to study.
Then you should study it.
Well, there is the fact that Canada has a significantly larger population than Australia: 31M vs. 20M, by the latest census data.
Well that's just super. Congratulations.
Regarding "forwards", "backwards", and "afterwards": Which are those supposed to be, American or British?
If British, uh, Americans use them too.
If American, what are the British equivalents?
Latin was not "devised from Greek". There were significant borrowings, but to say that Latin was devised from Greek is along the lines of saying that French was devised from Spanish. Proto-Italic and Proto-Hellenic had split off from each other long before there was a "Latin" or "Greek".
A planet is any non-star whose immediate orbit is around a star.
Yes, this makes for tiny planets. Too bad; deal with it. Anything else is arbitrary.
If the installer binaries are infected, well, you're screwed.
Build from source.
Certainly. I'm only "Huh?"ing the specific.
Fuck the FCC. What gives them the right to decide that a word is improper? It's a fucking word. Get over it. If it's ok to convey the idea how can it possibly be wrong to convey it with a certain word?
And could you have said that without making it sound offensive? Without the gratuitous use of the word fuck it may actually have had some merit as a statement.
Yes, I say we ban all phonemes which, in our language, carry implications of offense and/or hostility.
(I sure hope sarcasm isn't next).
But, if you say something like "dag nabbit", your brain has clearly had time to consider saying "fuck" and discarded it as vulgar. Hence, you've taken time to think about what you're saying, and your comment gets stored in a different location of the listening child's brain (and they go to a different place in the listening adult's brain).
That's not even remotely true.
I say "DOH!" because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, not because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, searched for a word, came up with "FUCK!", decided it was too vulgar, and settled on "DOH!".
TFA:
"The title "Much Ado About Nothing," Dr. McWhorter said, is a word play on "Much Ado About an O Thing," the O thing being a reference to female genitalia."
You've got to be shitting me.
Are you sure you took that seriuosly enough?
If you're good at basketball, you can pretty much only use that skill to play basketball.
Oh, I don't know about that. There are various subskills of basketball that are applicable to, say, water polo.
Parent may be "4, Interesting", but nonetheless is factually incorrect.
He didn't replace distance with angles, nor is one of the two "the fundamental element of trig" - they are together the fundemental elements of (standard) trigonometry.
What he actually did was that he replaced distance with distance squared and angles with sine squared.
Yes, let's get out of this recently fashionable trend of teaching the servant class principles of abstract thought, and getting back to the time-honored tradition of getting them to grow our food from an early age.
You try spending three days on a tour of Hell, buddy.
It was a joke, not a "burnx0rd", whatever the hell that is. Unless "burnx0rd" means "joke".
Dumbass.
$ Start > Run > winver
ksh93: Start: not found [No such file or directory]
http://tor.eff.org/
Do they expect to ... um ... profit?
If so, how?
NIMBY.
Is nothing more than a handheld with a WiFi connection to the internet.
(1) Check your pages with a validator.
(2) Fix the things that the validator says are broken.
Voila, cross-browser app.