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Started by Deloria, January 07, 2006, 01:56:58 PM

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PirateKingChris

Someone make this a poll.... :suffer:
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racx_00

Quote from: copycat on April 26, 2007, 07:01:07 PM
She's my bright little genie! Stay away! ::)
She's my bright little genie sister. :P

Bah, I hate putting "my" there, it sounds so possessive.
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copycat

Quote from: racx_00 on April 27, 2007, 12:12:21 AMBah, I hate putting "my" there, it sounds so possessive.
I'm an extremely possessive person. ::) :P
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racx_00

Quote from: copycat on April 29, 2007, 04:08:52 PM
I'm an extremely possessive person. ::) :P
Just gotta make sure you have the type of girl that likes a possessive guy. :P
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copycat

Quote from: racx_00 on April 29, 2007, 10:25:14 PMJust gotta make sure you have the type of girl that likes a possessive guy. :P
Of course, I'm entitled to be possessive about my TSL grandchild. After all, where else could that kind of geniality come from?
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racx_00

Quote from: copycat on April 30, 2007, 05:43:55 PM
Of course, I'm entitled to be possessive about my TSL grandchild. After all, where else could that kind of geniality come from?
You tell me. :P
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racx_00

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Delling

*turning to the right and returning to something a bit more grammatical*

Quote from: Deloria on April 22, 2007, 04:44:05 AM
Yes, forgive me, I should have called them conditionals. :-\ But no, I meant more in the way of if...were.

Ah, you mean the sadly, painfully dying English subjunctive mood, that grammatical artifact on life support in the ICU of English. Not conditionals.

There is a distinct difference between the two... well, not really... the one sort of emerges out of the other (conditionals, I suspect, emerge from past forms that did double duty as subjunctives for shall and will, namely should and would (in a manner similar to were and had for to be and to have)).

Anyway, it is important to remember that there are classes of uncertainty recognized by grammar which require the indicative even in English and then there are classes of uncertainty which demand the subjunctive (though they have very little chance of getting it these days).
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

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Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
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...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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copycat

Quote from: racx_00 on May 03, 2007, 08:18:38 AMThen why ask? ::)
That's what's called a 'rhetorical question'. :scholar:
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Deloria

On a random note, I now hate tautology. ;P

 
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PirateKingChris

How could you possibly hate "use of redundant language that adds no information"? :P (thanks wiki)
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Deloria

#452
XD XD

Because it's random bolstering of the sentence, just for the sake of adding words (to make it sound more impressive)? ;P

(Posted on: 21 June 2007, 16:16:46)


Due to the fact that no one seems to realise that English has a subjunctive mood, I am reviving this thread. ;P

*sighs*

Lesson 1:

The subjunctive mood can be used for hypothetical occurrences in the past. Let's start with those.

"I wish I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they had been..." You can also use any other verb instead of "to be", but it has to be in the pluperfect tense. The predicate in a clause following the one above this will often be "would have".

(Note: Because this seems to be a foreign concept, I'm not even going to go into the other functions of the subjunctive mood. :P)

When talking about hypothetical occurrences in the present tense,  we use "were" regardless of person. Please, please remember this. XD

"I wish I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they were..."
"If it were..."

I'm not going to cover the future subjunctive in this post because I have finals. :stabs:
 
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Précieuse and salonnière! :D
"In cases of doubt about language, it is ordinarily best to consult women."-Vaugelas
Space! :D Extraterrestrium! :D Espace! :D

tessspoon

Reading that makes my head hurt. :P XD

Good luck on your finals. :)

Deloria

Thanks. XD

I might just be taking stress out on the forum. XD
 
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Yonkey

Thanks for the lesson Deloria, but unfortunately you're also under arrest:
Quote from: Deloria on June 05, 2008, 04:31:00 AM
I can has kitty?

XD
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atec123

I'm prabably under arrest a lot, my grammar really sucks!!
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Delling

Quote from: Yonkey on December 09, 2008, 07:25:07 PM
Thanks for the lesson Deloria, but unfortunately you're also under arrest:
Quote from: Deloria on June 05, 2008, 04:31:00 AM
I can has kitty?

XD
For the sake of cuteness, lolspeak is justifiable grammaticide... just like mashing a Greek stem together with a Latin one. :P
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

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Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

snabbott

I generally consider bad grammar that is used deliberately for the sake of humor to be acceptable.  ;D

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atec123

What about All your base are belong to us??
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