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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Monkeyleg on February 07, 2012, 06:42:22 PM
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Since people like to refer to those of us who are sticklers for the king's English as "grammar Nazi's", I thought this thread title should be in German.
When I drive to the gym in the afternoon, the Sean Hannity show is on. I'll catch just a few minutes, but every day he does the same thing that drives me nuts. He refers to people as objects, and to companies as people.
Example: "People that vote for..." or "Companies who make products..."
It's "people who" and "companies that"!! Now stop it!
Now back to your regular programming. Auf wiedersehen.
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Your first mistake is listening to Hannity.
Your second mistake is admitting that here. =D
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Defending proper grammar and usage feels akin to being a veteran living along Hadrian's Wall after the active legions have been recalled to fading Rome. The decline is inevitable. We must hope there is light after the darkness.
(Sorry. I'm waxing all poetical & stuff, dude, after a couple dry tinis, ya know? Like people that invest in companies who gut the assets and leave poor publik sckoool grads unemployd. ;))
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People that Godwin their own thread.... ;/
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How did I Godwin it?
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How did I Godwin it?
You missed the funny......
People that Godwin their own thread.... ;/
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You are missing the point..
Companies are people...Romney said so...
And people ARE objects to be owned... by mentioned companies. OK, maybe we even make it to livestock :lol:
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I hate people that get upset about things which aren't important. :P
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I hate people that get upset about things which who aren't important. :P
FAIL.
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Depends on the media. Here is my scale of "lack of import to important" of grammar by written media type:
Text Message
Web Forum Post
Email
Briefing
Report
White Paper
Peer-Reviewed Document
WRT audio or video, I am likely to let grammar slips slide, due to the "thinking on one's feet" circumstance.
I don't get too bent out of shape by web posts that do violence to grammar, as long as they are intelligible. Some are, however, barely more than troglodytic keyboard poundings painful to decipher.
FTR, I do not spell or grammar check my web posts. What gets written gets written and that is the end of that, IMO.
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I hate people that get upset about things which aren't important. :P
I hate people who hate....
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I hate people that get upset about things which who aren't important.
FIFY
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing. — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 23-28)
And it's "Meine Beschwerde" ;)
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And it's "Meine Beschwerde"
Well, then, you go tell Hitler that the title of his book, "Mein Kampf", was incorrect. ;)
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According to my rather limited sources, "beschwerde" means "complaint," and the plural is "beschwerden."
"mein" is masculine
"meine" is feminine
But, that's what my >limited< resources say...... :angel:
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Well, then, you go tell Hitler that the title of his book, "Mein Kampf", was incorrect. ;)
And just how do you expect him to get to the secret Nazi moonbase from here?.... ;/
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If you really want to hear English butchered, listen to Al Sharpton on MSNBC.
The man cannot put together more than one English sentence without screwing something up.
The hilarity only lasts for a few minutes as tolerance goes out the window.
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If you really want to hear English butchered, listen to Al Sharpton on MSNBC.
The man cannot put together more than one English sentence without screwing something up.
The hilarity only lasts for a few minutes as tolerance goes out the window.
Resist we much.
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back when I was a liberal hippie punk I met Al Charlatan at a protest in NYC, this was in the early 80's when he was just another liberal community organizer dirtbag, the guy was a total jerk. I turn the channel anytime he is on the tube, never understood why he was given the time of day in the first place
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The hilarity only lasts for a few minutes as tolerance goes out the window.
Subtle. (Implied subject and verb.)
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If you really want to hear English butchered, listen to Al Sharpton on MSNBC.
The man cannot put together more than one English sentence without screwing something up.
The hilarity only lasts for a few minutes as tolerance goes out the window.
Racist.
And for the record, I thought this was going to be about Monkeyleg's new German Banschwerk.
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