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ahartfie
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micampe micampe
typographer’s apostrophe’s?

That was deliberate.

It had to have been.
 
Uniqez
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You're fine - this thread is all in good fun. I just happened to run across your mishap.
If this is the case, you've missed my royal screw up about Nascar and it's moon mission).

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dialstatic
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I'm not a native speaker, but I'm interested in the English language. In general, language is a living thing.

"As I will shew, there can be no dout that the connexion between TAG and Heuer has yielded some pathetick watches."

All words in bold were spelled like that at various points in time. I recently read 'Made in America' by Bill Bryson, a pretty funny and informative book about how American English evolved from British - and it's full of cool examples like these. Eventually, if repeated often enough, even errors can become correct.
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styggpyggeno1
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I find this thread kind of funny, considering how few other languages most English speakers master. Feel free to correct this sentence. 😉
 
Greatpa
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I has irretating to when peoples donnot speaks good Dansih! Leasson fore you:

Inflections[edit]
There are two grammatical genders in Danish: common and neuter. All nouns are mostly arbitrarily divided into these two classes. The singular indefinite article (a/an in English) for common nouns is en and for neuter nouns is et. They are often informally called n-words and t-words.

En dreng. A boy.

Et fængsel. A jail.

Unlike English, singular definite nouns in Danish are rendered by placing the indefinite article as a suffix at the end of the noun.

Drengen. The boy.

Fængslet. The jail.

The articles and suffixes for plural nouns are more complex. The following table shows the various inflections of articles for regular Danish nouns in both noun classes.

Gender Singular Plural Meaning
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Common en dreng
en bil
en kvinde
en ske drengen
bilen
kvinden
skeen drenge
biler
kvinder
skeer drengene
bilerne
kvinderne
skeerne
"boy"
"car"
"woman"
"spoon"

Neuter et fængsel
et æble
et lyn fængslet
æblet
lynet fængsler
æbler
lyn fængslerne
æblerne
lynene
"jail"
"apple"
"flash of lightning"
 
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styggpyggeno1 styggpyggeno1
I find this thread sort of funny - considering how few other languages most of the English speaking master. Feel free to correct this sentence. 😉
We have enough problems with native English speakers. People who've actually learned the language are probably better than most of us
 
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I find this thread sort of funny - considering how few other languages most of the English speaking master.

Hey now, I'm fluent in both English AND Asshole.
 
cicindela
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Hey now, I'm fluent in both English AND Asshole.
Asshole is the colloquial Philadelphia term for the dialect. The proper and formal term used in the rest of NJ and lower NY region is, "Joisey" or in the other US states the term, "Jersey".
e.g., "youse guys speak Joisey? Youse guys have no friggin idea how bad I'm gonna beat your skulls in for this!
 
timjohn
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Technically, that would be correct since both are abbreviated versions of the actual word they represent. Just one more example of how things change over the years.
micampe micampe
Were they annoyed because you used 'tick mark's instead of typographer’s apostrophe’s?
They were annoyed because I was right and they had to take them out and make it wrong. Unless you've known a few sub-editors, you can't imagine how sweet that was.
Tiny Iota Tiny Iota
We have enough problems with native English speakers. People who've actually learned the language are probably better than most of us
Joseph Conrad, whose first language was Polish, wrote the most sublime English.
 
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dennisthemenace dennisthemenace
I could care less about correct grammar.
So does it mean the opposite ? meaning that you are actually concern about using correct grammer ?

Or is it " I couldnt care less about correct grammer ? " meaning the concern for using correct grammer cannot be any lower or less which makes sense

Any English teachers in the house of Omega ? Actually i think
@dennisthemenace statement is valid with the correct tone of voice & facial expression [emoji6]
 
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Miss Fox is correct. If you could care less, that means that you actually do care somewhat. If you couldn't care less, that means you don't give a shit at all to begin with.
 
dennisthemenace
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Miss Fox is correct. If you could care less, that means that you actually do care somewhat. If you couldn't care less, that means you don't give a shit at all to begin with.
I wish I had a fiver for every time someone posted that they could care less (more often than not Americans) when they really mean the opposite.
 
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You think that's tough? What about those poor unfortunate Americans not being British? ::stirthepot::
How would the British know if Americans are unfortunate? As far as I know the British don't speak American...::stirthepot::::stirthepot::
 
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Faz Faz
How would the British know if Americans are unfortunate? As far as I know the British don't speak American...::stirthepot::::stirthepot::

Pfffft, the Brits are just holding a 240 year old grudge.
 
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Personal pet peeve I encounter in e-mails correspondences on an almost daily basis : my given name is Michel but most English-speaking people reply Michael. This happens even after several e-mail exchanges, or having met the person face-to-face.

Michel 😉
 
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