#35726
07/18/2001 4:39 AM
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Bingley
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#35727
07/18/2001 11:17 AM
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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.
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#35728
07/18/2001 1:31 PM
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grammar police…saying "ain't"…train them out of that
There's nothing ungrammatical about ain't.
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#35729
07/18/2001 1:41 PM
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old hand
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There ain't done never nothing been wrong wit 'ain't' :-)
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#35730
07/18/2001 1:49 PM
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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
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#35732
07/19/2001 4:39 AM
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#35733
07/19/2001 1:32 PM
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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?
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#35734
07/19/2001 1:39 PM
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Both of these constructions have arguments for them.
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#35735
07/19/2001 1:48 PM
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Yep. Both are correct. Who's gonna fire off the angry E-mail? hi Faldage
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#35736
07/19/2001 2:04 PM
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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....}
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#35737
07/19/2001 2:07 PM
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on the same page
Huh? We got the slashes both going the same way. What more do ya want?
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#35738
07/19/2001 2:09 PM
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From now on I's gone be using different nor.
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#35739
07/19/2001 2:16 PM
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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.
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#35740
07/19/2001 2:40 PM
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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.
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#35741
07/19/2001 2:54 PM
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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.
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#35742
07/19/2001 2:58 PM
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AnnaS is going to take an ASpirin now.
Best ©opyright or Trade Mark™ that'n before someone steals it.
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#35743
07/20/2001 6:16 AM
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