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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1000 on: December 26, 2014, 11:02:34 AM »
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Well at least they got "Manual" right...
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1001 on: January 06, 2015, 07:49:13 PM »
They need a grammatical instruction manual.  Oh wait, that's the dictionary.

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1002 on: January 08, 2015, 08:33:09 AM »
That would be a spelling instruction manual, not grammar, but yeah.

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1003 on: January 11, 2015, 07:27:12 PM »
It's also a usage/definition instruction manual.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1004 on: February 06, 2015, 07:48:25 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1005 on: February 06, 2015, 08:23:22 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1006 on: February 06, 2015, 04:14:11 PM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1007 on: March 05, 2015, 04:30:30 AM »
I saved a grammar nazi logo from facebook to my tablet but i dont know where my tablet keeps stuff.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1008 on: March 09, 2015, 07:54:46 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1009 on: March 09, 2015, 08:16:46 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1010 on: March 09, 2015, 05:01:59 PM »
My daughter the (former) English major is a big proponent of the Oxford comma.


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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1011 on: April 23, 2015, 07:53:52 PM »


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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1012 on: April 23, 2015, 09:24:06 PM »
I guess that's one way to write it. Not a way that anyone has ever chosen before, probably, but I guess they get points for creativity.
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« Reply #1013 on: April 24, 2015, 06:00:26 AM »
I read a chapter from an Oxford University Press book this week.  It had Oxford commas.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1014 on: April 24, 2015, 09:09:39 AM »
It had better!
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1015 on: May 01, 2015, 08:21:13 AM »
Long live the Oxford comma!

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1016 on: May 01, 2015, 09:08:29 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1017 on: May 01, 2015, 11:01:30 AM »
I just spent a few minutes trying to imagine the New Testament from an Objectivist perspective, but my head exploded.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1018 on: May 01, 2015, 11:25:19 AM »
And yet a lot of Christians seem to like Rand. I don't get it.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1019 on: May 14, 2015, 09:12:13 PM »
I had a very conservative Mormon facebook friend explode in outrage and then defriend me when I told her I feel that Atlas Shrugged celebrates selfishness.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1020 on: May 15, 2015, 05:44:25 AM »
That's not a feeling, that's reading comprehension.  Doesn't she say it flat out?  Or is that only in Fountainhead?

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1021 on: May 15, 2015, 07:48:18 AM »
I haven't actually read anything by her, but everything I've read about her suggests that that was her philosphy in a nutshell and that she didn't exactly hide it.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1022 on: May 15, 2015, 07:51:36 AM »
She wrote a book entitled "The Virtue of Selfishness".  Ayn Rand wasn't being coy about it or anything.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1023 on: May 28, 2015, 09:25:44 PM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1024 on: June 08, 2015, 11:29:46 AM »
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