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Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Craziness Domain - I'm starting a protest group against people using "data" as a singular. | New poll | | |
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RT-55J Koopa Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6441 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Whodathunk? I was just about to start a protest group against people using foreign plural forms for loan words. I was going to start by stabbing people who use words like 'syllabi' instead of 'syllabuses.' (edited by RT-55J on 04-07-06 03:12 PM) |
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Kattwah Acro RIP Acmlm's Board: Feb. 18 2007 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Seeing as though we are having a latin revolution... Would that make the plural of "Plum" a "Pla"? |
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spel werdz rite Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6433 days Last view: 6432 days |
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I want to start a protest for the misuse of the word "irony" and for people who don't know the plural form of "virus." | |||
Emptyeye Oneofthebiggestlegendsand starseverinthis...GOD! Ceremonial Full Moderator Since: 11-17-05 From: I DUNNOOOOOOOO!! Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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See also criteria (Singular: Criterion).
ALSO: While we're on the subject of i-before-e, you forgot "society". (edited by Emptyeye on 04-09-06 10:19 PM) |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Originally posted by RT-55JBoth are acceptable, though syllabi is the "more correct" version. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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"data are" just doesn't sound right, though.
Originally posted by NSNick Now this I agree with. "Nintendo NES System", what the hell. (edited by HyperMackerel on 04-07-06 05:36 PM) |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6705 days Last view: 6705 days |
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I see no problem with data as a singular mass noun. I do, however, agree that criterion/criteria are misused far too often.
But what always gets me, for some reason, is the misuse of less vs fewer. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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That, in turn, makes us enemies, Alastor! Draw your sword! *hands flare with Etheral energy* Uh-oh, that's a BIG sword... *soils white, loose clothes*
I dunno... Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow? I don't ever step into the simbattle so I'm thinking it's something from there if I'm wrong. Soma has white loose fitting clothing, and there is an enemy with a giant 3D sword called Alastor. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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But the sword is broken. Who would be afraid of a broken sword? No one. | |||
MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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But broken swords are all nasty and jagged. I could get tetanus . | |||
spel werdz rite Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6433 days Last view: 6432 days |
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FEAR ME!! [glory of a broken sword] |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Yeah.
Glory. As hotlinked pictures go, that sure is hotlinked. |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6727 days Last view: 6727 days |
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I'm starting an official protest group against people over the age of 30 who still use the word "gots" in a sentence.
EXAMPLE I gots a new pair of shoes at the mall today. Please. You're not four years old anymore. Please start talking like an adult! (edited by Kirk Bradford Myers on 04-08-06 09:18 AM) |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Originally posted by Kirk Bradford Myers lol -- I'll confess to some of this and similar silliness. I will admit that a lot of that kind of thing though is a joke, and a lot of those jokes are either in-jokes with my mother, or internet-related stupidity. I don't see too much of a problem with it as I recognise it as a joke and know when not to speak that way (I know that it's not proper English) but yeah... I do it.. |
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Schwa Panser Embodiment of Good, infused with the Living Assets "Alpha Psibeam!" (echo effects) Since: 11-18-05 From: Tacoma, WA of the Material Plane; Crystal Psipalace Last post: 6694 days Last view: 6436 days |
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Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish Interesting! See, last time I fought an Ancient Blue Dragon, which was armed with a particularly nasty 720,000 GigaVolt Breath Weapon, my ether worked just fine in defense. To fell it, I fought a LONG battle, using a combination of the Emotional Rockets, Alpha Psibeam, the Sunbeam of Desert Sentinel to paralyze it by turning it's electricity against itself, and after 12 turns the Prince Tech "Prince Schwa's Limits Breaker" to knock all my stats to ungodly levels for 6 turns. Yeah, it was a victory, all right. Don't YOU tell ME false RP physics, boy! You may be more stylish than me, but at Roleplaying I'll whup ya hands down at Mach 50 before you can say Robin Williams. Oh, right, the subject... You'd have to say "I gots meself a new pair o' shoes at da mall yest'rdee". Completeness is everything. You can't order curry without the chestnuts. |
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Tarale 2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Originally posted by Schwa Yes, at least my mother and I are being complete idiots when I say that she: brug'd me up gooderer |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Schwa: I shall sue you for libel now. | |||
asdf Link's Awakening ಠ_ಠ Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6434 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Schwa, that's pirate speak. It has absolutely nothing to do with "the subject" at all. | |||
Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6705 days Last view: 6705 days |
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I don't know if that's really piratespeak.
This is how you get piratespeak. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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It's not pirate talk, it's stupid talk.
So yeah. |
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