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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby phatj » Fri Sep 14, 2018 21:58:12

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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby 1 » Sun Sep 16, 2018 21:27:23

“My nephew and I’s”
Fine. You wanna act like you're two? I'll act like I'm one.

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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby thephan » Mon Sep 17, 2018 08:58:57

Do adults say that? Is it some regional thing?
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby Bucky » Mon Sep 17, 2018 09:44:12

1 wrote:“My nephew and I’s”



why does he use the roman numeral for your name instead of arabic

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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby 1 » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:44:02

thephan wrote:Do adults say that? Is it some regional thing?


In my friends and I’s experience, it is not regional. Just dumb.
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby thephan » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:47:42

I don't know why, but that response really made me laugh.
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby 1 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 21:16:21

Anyway, I think it’s along the same lines as “your guys’s“ instead of “your”
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby 1 » Sun Oct 14, 2018 19:21:19

1 wrote:“My nephew and I’s”

https://www.reddit.com/r/WaltDisneyWorl ... ds_and_is/
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby Bucky » Sun Oct 14, 2018 20:05:15

why you be killin' my brain cells like dat

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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby swishnicholson » Wed Mar 25, 2020 20:35:18

Not a grammar annoyance, actually a pleasure to read from Mary Norris in the New Yorker:

Does civilization depend on the proper use of “who” and “whom”?
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby Uncle Milty » Wed Mar 25, 2020 20:48:50

One whom cannot link the intended article.
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby Bucky » Wed Mar 25, 2020 22:00:27

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby swishnicholson » Wed Mar 25, 2020 22:21:24

Uncle Milty wrote:One whom cannot link the intended article.


I have no idea what you're talking about. One of us must be going senile. I'm not going to say who (whom?).
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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby Bucky » Wed Mar 25, 2020 22:35:20

i'm not going to say he is going senile

i'm not going to say him is going senile


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Re: Grammar annoyances

Unread postby swishnicholson » Wed Mar 25, 2020 22:37:39

Bucky wrote:i'm not going to say he is going senile

i'm not going to say him is going senile


easy peasey


That's the spirit. Don't say any of thems guys is going senile.
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