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[2014-8-13. : 6:57 pm]  O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- I was just saying English was it's own thing, probably not too dissimilar from German, and then the French came and French got mixed in a bunch ;o [2014-8-13. : 6:53 pm]  Alzarath -- Ah, with that context the sentence is a bit more clear. Maybe a comma after 'out'? I dunno, English sucks. [2014-8-13. : 6:51 pm]  jjf28 -- I also blame the french for not completing metric time/dates, and for not creating expiration periods on standard measures [2014-8-13. : 6:50 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- I was using it like "There we were" or "There I was". You don't say "There, I was standing at the super market." [2014-8-13. : 6:48 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- "NudeRaider -- Wouldn't it be "There the English were hanging out..."?" no, I was referring to the language. [2014-8-13. : 6:38 pm] jjf28 -- "you can not just blame Frennch for everything, farty!" you're not allowed to think like that, you're German! [2014-8-13. : 6:30 pm] Devourer -- Isn't that the same as "The 5% is [...]" which is correct, but most say "The 5% are [...]" which is wrong [2014-8-13. : 6:30 pm] Alzarath -- I still feel like a comma would be necessary in that case. I haven't done much research into when commas are absolutely required, though. [2014-8-13. : 6:26 pm] Alzarath -- I don't usually point out stuff like that, I was just confused which one you intended. [2014-8-13. : 6:24 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- I used the correct one. I did use "it's" instead of "its" though. [2014-8-13. : 6:22 pm] Alzarath -- Whenever I try to discuss someone making an error, I make an error. I even went over that sentence twice because that's what usually happens and I still missed it. [2014-8-13. : 6:20 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Giving us a bunch of ridiculous and silly-sounding words, getting rid of our 2nd person singular pronoun ... who knows what else they did. [2014-8-13. : 6:19 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- There English was hanging out on it's own little island, probably not even too far off from German, when the French came and Frenched it all up by getting French all over it.  [2014-8-13. : 6:17 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- I would say "Kweewee" because I thought it was funny, but I knew it was incorrect. [2014-8-13. : 6:15 pm] Devourer -- But but... but... you also say "q" and not "queue"  yeah I know. When I was young and learned that word I somehow managed to get it wrong in my head and old habits die hard [2014-8-13. : 6:14 pm] NudeRaider -- did you see that ludicrous display last night? (almost worse that ridiculous) [2014-8-13. : 6:12 pm] NudeRaider -- well yeah, those words are a little tricky. Nothing a little training can help with though.  [2014-8-13. : 6:11 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- Informally DMY in French-Canada because of French, and MDY because of English (and the article gave the same explanation I did "because of the influences from the United States, and because of the way Canadians say dates in English (e.g., "January 1st, 2014")" xD). [2014-8-13. : 6:10 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- There's a whole wikipedia article on it. xD Canada uses YMD, apparently. [2014-8-13. : 6:10 pm] Alzarath -- Not really, Dev. Maybe 'necessary' at one point, but it's just something you have to consciously memorize a little. [2014-8-13. : 6:08 pm] NudeRaider -- Alzarath -- Should just be YMD across the board. >>> Truer words have never been spoken [2014-8-13. : 6:08 pm] Devourer -- Anyone else has problems with the words "ridiculously" and "necessary"? [2014-8-13. : 6:08 pm] NudeRaider -- No offense devo, but it's not very articulate to use 'like' too often. It's commonly used colloquially. And from what I can judge from movies it's the dumb gangster guys and silly bitches using it the most. [2014-8-13. : 6:08 pm] Alzarath -- I wish that was consistent. How are you supposed to differentiate month and day if the day's less than 13? Should just be YMD across the board. [2014-8-13. : 6:06 pm] O)FaRTy1billion[MM] -- "YMD, DMY, MDY Canada (30)" apparently they use all of them. [2014-8-13. : 6:06 pm] NudeRaider -- careful Alz, knowing Devo he's probably not far away from actually doing it [2014-8-13. : 6:05 pm] Devourer -- Yep, I have noticed my ridicolously high usage of that word lately. [2014-8-13. : 6:04 pm] NudeRaider -- but haha that's actually a good cheat sheet devo. 8th graders should use it during their German tests |
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