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Sep 12, 2009 03:27AM
Oh so make hay while the sun shines and feck the money eh David. It's late here or early however you percieve the cup gotta go to bed . nighty night.
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And when did FORmidable become forMIDable? Or kiLOMeter become KILometer? What's next, THERMometer?
There's a river in Oregon that the locals call the WilLAMmette.DeNIAL, they say, is not a river in Egypt. The Egyptians call it "Al bahr an-Nil," "the Nile Sea."
Ruth wrote: "David wrote: "Lifelong quandary: INnovative or inNOVative? I use no. 1, but I hear no. 2. It seems arbitrary; IMmolation, inVENtion, INsulate, inSPECtion, but there may be a rule or rules in there ..."When the therm killed the meter
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Newengland wrote: "I'm amazed. I have never heard ANYone say "inNOVative." Is this a way of sounding intelligent? French? Cutting edge? "
Yep, I've heard it...mostly from the NOVices!
Susanne wrote: "Newengland wrote: "I'm amazed. I have never heard ANYone say "inNOVative." Is this a way of sounding intelligent? French? Cutting edge? "
Were the NOVices the ones that had the NOVelty of No Voices. I cheated a little with the last one
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NOVitiates actually...on NOVocaine from NOVosibirsk which is close to NOVgorod...phew...
whew is right...and NOVember isn't even here yet!
Should I NOVelize my NOVella for NOVelty in NOVember? or..say a NOVena for a NOVation to feckin NOVa Scotia..
taa daaa!!!!
taa daaa!!!!
Joanie wrote: "Should I NOVelize my NOVella for NOVelty in NOVember? or..say a NOVena for a NOVation to feckin NOVa Scotia..taa daaa!!!!"
okay you win.
OOH!!..When is prize-giving Carol???
tried to get you a blue ribbon for first place. couldn't find one.
Yeah?? so what do I get??
oh..check out my very own thread Carol!!
C'mon in and do your 'party piece' will ya?
oh..check out my very own thread Carol!!
C'mon in and do your 'party piece' will ya?
Hi -An obit for Patrick Swayze called him a "balletically athletic dancer." I had to wonder if "balletically" was really a word, and the dictionaries I looked at differed (both pretty up-to-date, too, although ballet is nothing new). Anyway, someone argued with me that any adjective that ends in -ic automatically becomes an adverb by adding -ally. I disagree. I think it COULD become an adverb if people want to use it (and they're lining up for "balletically," let me tell you) but that no -ic adjective is automatically an adverb. For example, I've never written heard/seen the adverbs iambically, alcoholically, or islamically. Of course they may exist someday, somewhere. Could anyone chime in on this?
My heart stlll belongs to Dada but Der Stil belongs to MoMA.
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Balletically is a word. I, for instance, am balletically challenged. There!!
I've always been more of a pétomane than a balletomane, but that's embarrassing, actually.
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Debbie wrote: "That's ok....there is room for all types of (f)artistes!!"too funny Debbie.... :-)
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Am I missing the 'grammatical asks'???
No just posted in wrong place. Can't think straight.
Tourjours gai, toujours gai.my youth i shall never forget
but there s nothing i really regret
wotthehell wotthehell
there s a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gai toujours gai
Read the whole thing.
Ah...David! you are priceless! and..capricious and corybantic and wouldn't change a metaphoric hair on your head.
Lady and the Tramp.transmigrafied into a dog.
HAHAHAHAHA.. you're on fire tonight Carol!!! Bravo!
Joanie, I consider the scattered remnants of my crowning glory virtually tousled, which no doubt would render me your helpless slave.
I'm cool with that assessment of the situation.. virtually tosled slave boy. More poetry NOW!
S. wrote: "Hi -An obit for Patrick Swayze called him a "balletically athletic dancer." I had to wonder if "balletically" was really a word, and the dictionaries I looked at differed (both pretty up-to-date,..."
Well not to be too cute I have definitely walked and danced alcoholically. Some people are clinically dead.
scientific
magic
comic
tragic
sarcastic
problematic
heroic
magic
sarcastic
emphatic
mathematic
emphatic
economical
etc all do fit the 'rule' but you know what rules are like in English
I have never heard of Arctically or Antarctically but I am sure that some of our tragically grammatically challenged wits can emphatically make some effort to build those into a sentence sarcastically...
*and the name of this forum is...*
and more ...ically words for those who'd really like to know (and the rule) see: http://webtech.fdresa.org/tbphillips/...
periodically and optimistically yours
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Then, my spellcheck's been wrong before (it doesn't like the word "spellcheck" for instance. Spell check it likes, but the compound version, it says, does not exist.
It's an interesting question - I have always used "each other's" - to rationalise why I need a noun after it. Would you say "each other's faces" or "each other's face".
I think the key word is "each" - so I would say "We looked at each other's face" - each one has a face and each one of us looked at one face. Each being a determiner and used with a singular noun.
If I change it to "one another" then would you use "We looked at one another's dog." or "We looked at one another's dogs."
Assuming that one another is being used for more than two, then maybe one could argue that each of us looked at two dogs at least. Does that then make it more correct, to write "We looked at one anothers' dogs."
I don't know. I know that that is what I would say (e.g. common usage) but what would I write?
Hmmm, *goes off muttering to self*
Don't know but think I would still put one another's dogs just because I always have, ok!
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-- Rhymin' Simon
Yes, that's the question I posed above, except (I am of the opinion) that "each other" is x 2 and "one another" is for more than two...so is it "We looked at one anothers' dogs." ?I know what I say, but I don't know if it's just common usage or correct (for more than two).
I am happy to use the 'each = singular' rule for "each other." "We looked at each other's cars." just doesn't sound right to me.
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On reflection, she looked in the mirror.
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The way things came up that day nauseated her.
As I pondered above: If I change it to "one another" then would you use "We looked at one another's dog." or "We looked at one another's dogs."
Assuming that one another is being used for more than two, then maybe one could argue that each of us looked at two dogs at least. Does that then make it more correct, to write "We looked at one anothers' dogs."
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The "'s" after "one another" is possessive. Hence "one another's."The other dog won't hunt.
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But there is to "other." Namely, others. Woof.
Well, to riff on an old joke, I did NOT expect feathers.
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Well I asked the Secondary Head of English today, and she must be right because she agrees with me :) each other's; one another's - the 'each' and the 'one' are singular - it doesn't matter if the noun that follows is plural...IMHO
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