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Godfrey Jones said:
experts,

any difference between learned and learnt?

i have just sent an important email and the first words were "I have learnt..."

I hope i havent blown my chances within the first three words lol
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Beautifully done, God. :thumbsu: "Learned" and "learnt" are both good to go. I much prefer 'learnt' - the 't' is so satisfying at the end of the word.
 

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mdc said:
Quoting Yeats is soooo passé...to quote a far greater Irishman, Edward Murphy; "What has [Yeats] done for me lately?" :D


Back on topic, I've had a hard time recently explaining the who/whom thing to a friend (with limited formal understanding of grammar). My initial response was "you gots to feel it", but that didn't help obviously. I then suggested replacing who/whom by he/him to work it out, but that didn't seem to get us any further.

Any ideas Snag?
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Yes, you can always go with the feel when you're confident and know what you're doing. This is so hard to explain without at least metioning subject, object and relative clauses. :( Let me think about it overnight. Haven't time to look at the link RRRooocccaaa posted, but he's a sensible lad, so it may be useful. Either way, I'd like to do my own summary when I have world enough and time.
 
Snag Breac said:
Can anyone explain the precise meaning and origin of the phrase, to tear someone a new one? I've only ever seen it on this board, and while I can guess at its meaning, I wonder how it came about.:confused:
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Apologies for quoting myself, but I do want to get to the bottom of this one.
 
Godfrey Jones said:
abbreviated from rip someone a new a-hole... basically used when you're about to fight or argue with someone.. as to how painful you will make it for him/ her

basically, metaphorically you will rape him/ her lol
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Oh dear. Lol?? I think I've got hold of the wrong end of this particular pineapple.:eek: But who started it?
 

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beez said:
beez is confused

I hate conversing with you. While, I feel I have a reasonable IQ, it is quite clearly inferior to yours.
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Don't be confused, Smeagol; it was only another feeble joke.

But a word now from someone who'd make both of us feel ultra-bright.

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur". George W. Bush. :D
 
Snag Breac said:
Now that's about as good as...........

Does the name "Pavlov" ring a bell?
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^^^ I love it when people post visuals in here. But when is someone going to make an Easy Grammar Fix wall paper? There's a challenge! There may not be a lot of action in this thread, but words have been great servants of the club over the years, and deserve their tribute.
 

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Hi Snag, nice thread. i dont have a wallpaper to offer tho, sorry

a post i read earlier had me wondering:

JSFish said:
I find it incredible how unintelligent some people are. Amazing. Like you Naughton. You are one of these incredibly unintelligent people I refer to.
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another poster responded and said it is "those" not "these"

which is correct?

cheers
 
Godfrey Jones said:
Hi Snag, nice thread. i dont have a wallpaper to offer tho, sorry

a post i read earlier had me wondering:



another poster responded and said it is "those" not "these"

which is correct?

cheers
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"Those" would normally be more correct, but there's a specific shade of meaning intended here which also makes "these" valid. He's identifying a group and implying that this group has been referred to before - that they are already, notionally, under discussion. "These" here suggests a greater degree of familiarity than would "those".

Another example of the flexibility of English.
 
mdc has coined a new verb - To Tarrant. He defines it thus:

tarrant, Verb, -ing, -ed: To play as a HFF despite having KP-size, and gathering 90% of your possessions through long leads outside 50, ensuring you flex your out-of-proportion biceps whenever you are grabbing the ball.

Very clear, very useful.:thumbsu:
 
I gave up on this thread - a mixture of realism, despair and lethargy; but one mistake has forced me out of retirement. It's a grammatical menace and it's growing.

It's the use of his when you mean to write he's.

He's is a contraction of He is. It's fine.:thumbsu:

His is the word used before a noun to denote ownership - a possessive pronoun. E.g. His team. That's fine too.:thumbsu:

BUT - IT CAN NEVER MEAN He is. You must write, he's.
 
nice work snag

i hope we can still count on you though when we have questions

i think you really need to work hard on getting dtm here and turning it into a workshop

if you can at least teach him the difference between THOSE and THOUGH it'd be a success

ive been posting for about a year now and have realised dramatic improvement in dtm's efforts of getting his spelling/ grammar right - but this simple mistake he keeps making. i wonder why...

by the way - did you know theres a richmond poster who goes by the name of sausage time, and signs off all of his posts as 'snag'..

haha
 

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