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« on: August 18, 2005, 10:29:29 PM »
It really bothers me when people don't use less and fewer in the right circumstances.

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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2005, 11:14:41 PM »
Agreed! Just remember: fewer donuts, less coffee.
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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2005, 11:25:18 PM »
I have no idea when to use lie and when to use lay.

But at least I know that I don't know, and that puts me ahead of 99% of the population.
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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2005, 11:36:23 PM »
Their they're, kojabu. Its alright.
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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2005, 12:35:08 AM »
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Their they're, kojabu. Its alright.
>.< HOW can you stand to do that?!
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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2005, 07:47:47 AM »
:lol:
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« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2005, 03:02:11 PM »
I hate it when people confuse "lose" and "loose".

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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2005, 06:28:20 PM »
"Funner".  

Drives me up a freaking wall.
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2005, 07:56:41 PM »
Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2005, 08:51:38 PM »
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Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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Funner is?  Why isn't it on dictionary.com?
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2005, 07:50:32 AM »
Because Dictionary.com is ghetto. Try Merriam-Webster.
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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2005, 11:33:19 AM »
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Because Dictionary.com is ghetto. Try Merriam-Webster.
Didn't you used to reprimand me for using "funner" instead of "more fun?"
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« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2005, 11:37:13 AM »
Probably. Older brothers do lots of horrible things to their younger brothers. But now I'm grown up, and I've changed.
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« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2005, 11:38:57 AM »
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Probably. Older brothers do lots of horrible things to their younger brothers. But now I'm grown up, and I've changed.
And paid for schooling to teach you that "funner" is indeed an acceptable word.
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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2005, 11:46:56 AM »
It's one of the great many perks of a university education in the liberal arts.
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« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2005, 12:56:27 PM »
JB is the Tresopax of linguistics.

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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2005, 12:58:56 PM »
I'm not quite sure how to take that. Does it help if I saw a few minutes of Starship Troopers and thought it was pure garbage?
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2005, 01:00:33 PM »
[/QUOTE]What little things, is bad for the environment?
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This was a title of a thread on another forum I'm on. Some people never, ever proofread.
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2005, 01:19:54 PM »
Your tags are backwards.
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2005, 01:23:57 PM »
Nah, it's just her shirt that's on backwards.
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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2005, 01:33:41 PM »
Really?  "Funner" is okay?  Not in my idiolect.

How about "funnerist", or better yet "more funnerist"?
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« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2005, 01:38:57 PM »
The prefered usage is "mostest funnerest".
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« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2005, 01:41:46 PM »
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Why? ["funner's"] a perfectly cromulent word.

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Funner is? Why isn't it on dictionary.com?

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Because Dictionary.com is ghetto. Try Merriam-Webster.

cromulent  cromulent

I'm not quite sure why I find that so funny, but I do.

And as an aside, Jon Boy, do you know the etymology for "cromulent"?  As you can see from the links above, neither of those two sites has it.

 
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« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2005, 02:04:06 PM »
The stigma against funner stems from the idea that fun was a noun, not an adjective. But it's used as an adjective all the time now, so there's no need for the stigma. It's just one of those language bugbears that won't go away.

And by the way, cromulent comes from The Simpsons. There's some quote from Jebediah Springfield saying that a noble heart embiggens even the smallest man. Someone criticizes the word embiggen, and Mrs. Krabappel says that it's a perfectly cromulent word.
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« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2005, 02:05:33 PM »
>.<
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