I also like the "I like cooking, children, and my family" where taking out the commas makes the person a psychopath: "I like cooking children and my family".
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
"Different to" or "different from"? Discuss
- 09/11/2017 05:29:38 PM
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Hailing from neither said nameless islands, nor the equally nameless former colonies...
- 09/11/2017 06:41:43 PM
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An answer.
- 09/11/2017 06:54:32 PM
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Despite what the link says, I prefer 'from" or "than."
- 09/11/2017 07:35:36 PM
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I think I say 'than'
- 09/11/2017 07:41:45 PM
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The pronunciation of "colonel" isn't a Brit/American english thing, is it?
- 09/11/2017 07:59:27 PM
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Regarding your inside statement - Not for an Anglophile 
- 09/11/2017 08:22:44 PM
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- 09/11/2017 08:22:44 PM
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I don't believe there's a colonel of truth in what you've just written
- 09/11/2017 08:51:00 PM
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Just say "different then" [sic] and irritate everyone *NM*
- 09/11/2017 08:48:40 PM
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then than same thing
- 10/11/2017 02:26:37 PM
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No. They don't have the same meaning and can radically change a sentence's meaning.
- 10/11/2017 05:34:16 PM
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HA!
- 10/11/2017 07:49:15 PM
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can you explain that in more detail?
- 11/11/2017 12:23:41 AM
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Here - I have done it for you.
- 12/11/2017 03:06:00 PM
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maybe you could define sarcasm
- 13/11/2017 04:09:40 PM
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You're welcome.
- 13/11/2017 05:24:33 PM
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No you really should have know I was kidding so you run along *NM*
- 14/11/2017 02:11:22 AM
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I found the article in the sidebar on the October Revolution quite amusing *NM*
- 09/11/2017 08:48:07 PM
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Can I understand what you're saying/writing? That's all I really need.
- 10/11/2017 03:32:47 PM
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