@RegDwight — How about "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party"? Is there a German equivalent for that? Enquiring minds want to know!
@JSBangs: teylyn is fighting the good battle, too.
> Grammar is not "bad" or "good". Regional variations follow local rules. Even if these are not reflected in the national standard, and may not even have been formally documented, they are still rules and whoever applies them in the region uses correct grammar for the region. – teylyn 18 hours ago
In spoken conversations German is sometimes horrifyingly wrong when it comes to grammar. This is even more so in regional dialects when sentences like
Das ist der Erich, dem wo seine Frau davongelaufen ist.
are perfectly understood and spoken just like above.
How do we best prepare to avoi...
Merriam-Webster Dictionary online shows “Top 10 Favorite British Words”. I’m interested in knowing how many of the listed words are understood or accepted by Americans as English, whichever British English or English slang.
The words listed as the top 10 Favorite English are:
prat meaning “a s...
In spoken conversations German is sometimes horrifyingly wrong when it comes to grammar. This is even more so in regional dialects when sentences like
Das ist der Erich, dem wo seine Frau davongelaufen ist.
are perfectly understood and spoken just like above.
How do we best prepare to avoi...
I saw the following lead copy of today’s New York Times (May 24) article titled, “Union Effort Turns Its Focus to Target “
“The retailer's employees are unhappy with about low wages and short workweeks.”
I have a simple question. Do we need “about” after "with"? Isn't this redundant?
Not only are there many different scenarios that can bring these words together, but there could be many reasons for one to win over the other even if they were all legitimate
BTW, I'm getting a little tired of all this argumentum ad verecundiam concerning Google NGrams. If you compare apples and oranges, you can make anything look compelling.
In the following sentence "In [3], an algorithm's count of calls to the basic uniform random number generator is used for comparison." is the apostrophe correct? I can never keep this straight. And this seems too trivial a question for the forum.
Your example sentences confuse two different problems.
For nouns that are plural (such as "boys"), the possessive formed in writing by adding an apostrophe after the plural -s. This is pronounced the same as the plural and the singular possesive:
The boys' books [boys' sounds like boys]
Fo...
Perfect synonyms illustrated: talk (“I want a word with you”) -> word (“I give you my word”) -> promise (“He shows promise”) -> potential (“A potential source of conflict”) -> possible (“It's not possible to check the figures”) -> feasible -> practicable -> realistic (“A realistic portrayal of war”) -> true (“the necessity of true repentance”) -> sincere (“A sincere person”) -> honest (“An honest man”) -> upright (“An upright position”) -> vertical.
2
—using Oxford Concise Thesaurus
Feel free to get from apples to oranges using a thesaurus. Should be easy as pie if you can get from talk to vertical.
well, you missed a multi-day discussion of atheology, and then a bunch of @Robusto just being a clown, as usual. plus something about fur bikinis that i haven't have the temerity to look at closely.
also, i finally got the Great Answer badge for the English you/thee question, the first such badge awarded on this site
let's see, what else... someone named Boob started showing up in chat and confusing people with her salacious name and userpic which i'm pretty confident does not actually depict her
The problem is that I connected to SE when I was at her house, and she connected on SE when she was at my house. Plus, at the very beginning, I used her account to vote myself, which got detected from the system (I voted myself 5 times in row).
has it been sorted out, or are you still staggering around like a frankensteinian monstrosity stitched together at the waist, begging to be put out of your misery?
Anyway, I scanned all my passport, to let them see I am not in USA now. I take a picture of me holding my passport, and a picture of me holding a local newspaper showing the date.
@JSBangs — What's this about me lacking a certain amount of gravitas? @RegDwight never stops being a clown, but I'm the one you single out? You with your noisemakers and such?
I use a simple fried chicken recipe: wash chicken (I use thighs), dredge in seasoned flour, dip in egg with a bit of milk, re-dredge in flour, shake and fry. The dish comes out great on the day I cook it but loses its crunch the next day when I want to take it as part of a picnic lunch.
Is there...
In written and standard semi-formal (and above) spoken English, one would use "try to":
Try to be a better person.
Try to get the fishhook out of my thumb, please.
Try to find a pharmacy when you need one.
But in spoken English, we (Americans, at least) usually substitute "try and...
@kiamlaluno Depends. If you fly from Rome to N.Y. compared to flying from San Francisco to Rome, or flying from Rome to San Franscisco as opposed to Flying from Pennsylvania to Rome.
The Boing 747 is not used for travels from Europe to USA. The airplane I take is a Boing 7xx, but I don't remember the model of the airplane I took each times I traveled.
I've only been around the whole of Victoria, that is the state I live in in Australia. I've been to parts of Adelaide, New South Wales, Queensland, and that's it.
In spoken conversations German is sometimes horrifyingly wrong when it comes to grammar. This is even more so in regional dialects when sentences like
Das ist der Erich, dem wo seine Frau davongelaufen ist.
are perfectly understood and spoken just like above.
How do we best prepare to avoi...
Merriam-Webster Dictionary online shows “Top 10 Favorite British Words”. I’m interested in knowing how many of the listed words are understood or accepted by Americans as English, whichever British English or English slang.
The words listed as the top 10 Favorite English are:
prat meaning “a s...
Your example sentences confuse two different problems.
For nouns that are plural (such as "boys"), the possessive formed in writing by adding an apostrophe after the plural -s. This is pronounced the same as the plural and the singular possesive:
The boys' books [boys' sounds like boys]
Fo...
In written and standard semi-formal (and above) spoken English, one would use "try to":
Try to be a better person.
Try to get the fishhook out of my thumb, please.
Try to find a pharmacy when you need one.
But in spoken English, we (Americans, at least) usually substitute "try and...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…