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Posted By: Bingley Somebody is Watching YOU! - 07/18/01 04:39 AM
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/roseisrose/archive/roseisrose-20010717.html

Bingley
Posted By: Jackie Re: Somebody is Watching YOU! - 07/18/01 11:17 AM
Thank you, Bingley; that's cute. As a bona fide member of the grammar police, I applaud it! It wasn't long after my children started school that they came home saying "ain't". It didn't take me a whole lot longer to train them out of that.

Posted By: Faldage Re: Somebody is Watching YOU! - 07/18/01 01:31 PM
grammar police…saying "ain't"…train them out of that

There's nothing ungrammatical about ain't.

Posted By: belligerentyouth Re: Somebody is Watching YOU! - 07/18/01 01:41 PM
There ain't done never nothing been wrong wit 'ain't' :-)

Posted By: wow Re: Somebody is Watching YOU! - 07/18/01 01:49 PM
There's nothing ungrammatical about ain't.
Let's not go there, again!

The opening link also leads you to the New Yorker cartoons and other neat stuff... that will save me sneaking into my Hairdresser's to browse the magazine rack!
http://www.unitedmedia.com/cartoonbank/archive/45853.gi.html

Posted By: Bingley Re: Somebody is Watching YOU! - 07/19/01 04:20 AM
Such a pity the first one Rose spots isn't in fact a grammatical error.

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/roseisrose/archive/roseisrose-20010718.html

Bingley
Posted By: Max Quordlepleen - 07/19/01 04:39 AM


Posted By: Jackie Re: Somebody is Watching YOU! - 07/19/01 01:32 PM
Such a pity the first one Rose spots isn't in fact a grammatical error.

But, but...he says, "none have occurred today". Shouldn't that be none has occurred today?



Posted By: Faldage Re: Different than/from - 07/19/01 01:39 PM
Both of these constructions have arguments for them.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic none has/none have - 07/19/01 01:48 PM
Yep. Both are correct. Who's gonna fire off the angry E-mail? hi Faldage

Posted By: tsuwm Re: none has/none have - 07/19/01 02:04 PM
ATTN: ASp and Faldage

you two really oughta get on the same page (comically speaking).

[see respective subject lines]

{I don't suppose that was near angry enough....}
Posted By: Faldage Re: Spective Subject lines - 07/19/01 02:07 PM
on the same page

Huh? We got the slashes both going the same way. What more do ya want?

Posted By: Faldage BTW - 07/19/01 02:09 PM
From now on I's gone be using different nor.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: same page - 07/19/01 02:16 PM
I don't get it, tsuwm. For the threadnodists® it's easy to se who's referring to what. For us flatliners®, the subject of the post indicates what is being referred to.

Posted By: tsuwm Re: same page - 07/19/01 02:40 PM
for *this flatliner it looked like this:
Faldage
Re: Different than/from
Both of these constructions have arguments for them.
AnnaStrophic
none has/none have
Yep. Both are correct. Who's gonna fire off the angry E-mail? hi Faldage

so, which are both correct... and whom were you agreeing with? (and which strip are you angry about?)

other than that, I'm just fine.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: same page - 07/19/01 02:54 PM
You *do have a point, tsuwm. If I'd seen Faldage's post I wouldn't have written "Yep." I shoulda quoted in blue. But I let the screen lie for a while before posting, so I can see the confusion, even though each post has a different title.

And the strip worth an angry E-mail is that which Bingley cited, noting it was a pity that the first grammatical error she finds is, in fact, not one. Bingley's the person I was agreeing with. Or either Max, one. I'm going to take an ASpirin now.

Posted By: Faldage Re: same page - 07/19/01 02:58 PM
AnnaS is going to take an ASpirin now.

Best ©opyright or Trade Mark™ that'n before someone steals it.

Posted By: Max Quordlepleen - 07/20/01 06:16 AM


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