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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:21:35 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote: Richard Lederer, a renowned linguist and author, said that there are times when it makes more sense to split an infinitive, and times when it makes the sentence awkward if you don't end it with a preposition. I like Richard Lederer! ;-) Yeah, I do too. My very favorite grammatical faux-pas is the "dangling participle." Most of them result in some hilarious sentences. Jeanne Jeanne Hajos spamguard u is i, and not is net) === "Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back." --- Coleman Cox My SETI team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_125874.html |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:21:35 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote: Richard Lederer, a renowned linguist and author, said that there are times when it makes more sense to split an infinitive, and times when it makes the sentence awkward if you don't end it with a preposition. I like Richard Lederer! ;-) Yeah, I do too. My very favorite grammatical faux-pas is the "dangling participle." Most of them result in some hilarious sentences. Jeanne Jeanne Hajos spamguard u is i, and not is net) === "Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back." --- Coleman Cox My SETI team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_125874.html |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:21:35 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote: Richard Lederer, a renowned linguist and author, said that there are times when it makes more sense to split an infinitive, and times when it makes the sentence awkward if you don't end it with a preposition. I like Richard Lederer! ;-) Yeah, I do too. My very favorite grammatical faux-pas is the "dangling participle." Most of them result in some hilarious sentences. Jeanne Jeanne Hajos spamguard u is i, and not is net) === "Anger improves nothing except the arch of a cat's back." --- Coleman Cox My SETI team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_125874.html |
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I grew up with 'pop' for any fizzy sweet drink, and 'cordial' for any sweet
drink that had to be diluted down with water.. My step-grandma, who lived all of twenty miles away from me, used 'mineral' for any fizzy sweet drink, and 'pop' for any sweet drink that had to be diluted down with water. I guess I heard 'soda-pop' on American TV shows and deduced what it was from that. Jeanette We used to say "pop" too, for any bottled carbonated drink. A carbonated cherry drink bought at the drugstore fountain was a "phosphate." I never hear anybody use either of those terms any more though. |
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I grew up with 'pop' for any fizzy sweet drink, and 'cordial' for any sweet
drink that had to be diluted down with water.. My step-grandma, who lived all of twenty miles away from me, used 'mineral' for any fizzy sweet drink, and 'pop' for any sweet drink that had to be diluted down with water. I guess I heard 'soda-pop' on American TV shows and deduced what it was from that. Jeanette We used to say "pop" too, for any bottled carbonated drink. A carbonated cherry drink bought at the drugstore fountain was a "phosphate." I never hear anybody use either of those terms any more though. |
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I grew up with 'pop' for any fizzy sweet drink, and 'cordial' for any sweet
drink that had to be diluted down with water.. My step-grandma, who lived all of twenty miles away from me, used 'mineral' for any fizzy sweet drink, and 'pop' for any sweet drink that had to be diluted down with water. I guess I heard 'soda-pop' on American TV shows and deduced what it was from that. Jeanette We used to say "pop" too, for any bottled carbonated drink. A carbonated cherry drink bought at the drugstore fountain was a "phosphate." I never hear anybody use either of those terms any more though. |
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"Yowie" had some very interesting
things to say about "go down cellar": I'm remembering when I rang a very fancy hotel in Minneapolis to talk to my friend who was away on business. I used to think I didn't have a particularly strong Australian accent, but the receptionist simply couldn't understand me until I started speaking in my fake American accent. For a hotel that would surely get guests from all over the world, I would have thought my accent would not present a problem, but perhaps Australian sounds *particularly* strange to American ears. Not to me, it doesn't, and I happen to like the Aussie accent. I like the sound. :-) -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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"Yowie" had some very interesting
things to say about "go down cellar": I'm remembering when I rang a very fancy hotel in Minneapolis to talk to my friend who was away on business. I used to think I didn't have a particularly strong Australian accent, but the receptionist simply couldn't understand me until I started speaking in my fake American accent. For a hotel that would surely get guests from all over the world, I would have thought my accent would not present a problem, but perhaps Australian sounds *particularly* strange to American ears. Not to me, it doesn't, and I happen to like the Aussie accent. I like the sound. :-) -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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