Author Topic: Words and Grammar and Stuff  (Read 126302 times)

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #120 on: July 30, 2008, 06:11:52 PM »
I can get behind quietude, especially with your description.  It's really just utilized that pisses me off.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #121 on: July 30, 2008, 10:13:37 PM »
You're like a noughties Mark Twain.

ok, I feel the opposite about noughties as I do about Potterfile. 

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #122 on: July 31, 2008, 05:46:44 AM »
Potterfile means what, exactly?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #123 on: July 31, 2008, 08:08:57 AM »
Potterfile means what, exactly?

I think they mean Potterphile (which is self-explanatory).
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #124 on: July 31, 2008, 08:12:56 AM »
Noughties is fine. It'll have to be - the blood decade's nearly over!


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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #125 on: August 01, 2008, 03:01:56 PM »
I changed "recasted" to "recast" in a thread title and now I'm wondering which is really right.  "Recasted" looked so wrong. 
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #126 on: August 01, 2008, 03:33:18 PM »
I changed "recasted" to "recast" in a thread title and now I'm wondering which is really right.  "Recasted" looked so wrong. 

I'm thinking that since "casted" isn't a word, then "recasted" isn't either. Yeah?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #127 on: August 01, 2008, 03:34:06 PM »
I think recast is better, as the 'ed' is superfluous. But is either even a word?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #128 on: August 01, 2008, 04:27:05 PM »
recast is, as far as i know, you can put the 're' prefix to almost any verb

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #129 on: August 01, 2008, 04:33:22 PM »
recast is, as far as i know, you can put the 're' prefix to almost any verb

And yet a comma should never be used in place of a semicolon!

 

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