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Post by gelly14 on Apr 7, 2012 17:22:51 GMT -5
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Post by crispy on Apr 7, 2012 17:24:16 GMT -5
And, this is for Q3 and Adam, to help them with their spelling challenges: European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily complicated and illogical - for example, the different sounds of cough, plough and rough, or heard and beard. There is a clear need for a phased programme of changes to eliminate these anomalies. The programme would, of course, require administration by a committee whose members would be supplied by participating nations. During the first year of implementation, it is envisaged that the soft "c" will be replaced by the more phonetically correct letter "s". This will sertainly be resieved favourably by sivil servants in many European sities, and will insidentally render the "i" before "e" exsept after "c" rule unnesessary. The logical replasement of the hard "c" by the letter "k" will follow, due to the similarity in pronunsiation. This konkomitant step will, insidentally, not only klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but also klarify word prosessing sinse it kompletely removes the need for one of the letters on the keyboard. The sekond stage will see the digraph "ph" written as "f". In addition to the fonetik logik of this move, words such as "fotograf" will be twenty per sent shorter. The third fase will involve the removal of double letters in words. In many instanses, double leters do not afekt the aktual pronunsiation of a word. They are, however, a comon deterent to akurate speling, The fourth element will be the elimination of silent "e"s from the languag. Thes ar often stal reliks of past spelings. They do litl to enhans writen English and it is antisipated that they kould be droped with eas. By this point, the Komision antisipats that publik akseptans of the changes will be at a high level. It wil thus be posibl to promot som other, smaler, but stil posibly kontentious, changes. For exampl, the unesesary "o" kan be droped from words kontaining the "ou" digraf. A similar proses kuld then be aplid to other vowel and konsonant kombinashuns. However, no konseshun wuld yet hav ben mad to Uropean sensibilitis. To tak kar of som of the komon difikultis enkountered by non-nativ spekers, it wuld be sensibl for the "th" digraf to be replased by "z". Ze funkshun of ze "w" kan zen be taken by ze letter "v", vich is, of kors, half a "w" in any kas. Zis proses vil kontinu, in a kumulativ fashun. Eventuli English vil be ze komon languag ov ze Komuniti, vich vil no longer be merly an ekonomik sifer, but a kominashun ov fre pepls. Ve shal kontinu to red and rit as zo nuzing has hapend. Evrivun vil no vot ze uzer sitizens ar saying and komunkashun vil be mutch ezier. Ze Komuniti vil hav achevd its objektivs ov congrewents and ze drems ov ze pepls of Urop vil finali hav kum tru. It is hopd zat zes signifikant konseshuns vil finaly reashor ze "Uroskeptiks"! Cassie, how long did it take you to do this!?! This looks like a written version of someone speaking with a fake German accent. Gotta love a fan site that devotes 15 pages to grammar rules interspersed with pictures of a hot dude! |
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Post by mehitabel on Apr 7, 2012 17:26:57 GMT -5
as a native speaker I have to disapoint you ;D - Moscow is an English language "invention". In Russian Moscow is MOSKVA and pronounced with the accent on the A... actually it is interesting to find out how Moskva became Moscow .. ??? ... here is my contribution to the "words that drive me crazy when used improperly": usage of the verbs "to affect" and "to effect" as well as the nouns "affect" and "effect".... In Finnish it's called Moskova! :D I think for English only speakers, multiple consonants in a row are hard to pronounce, so letters are added - as in kva becoming cow. I know that the kj sound in Norwegian drove me crazy til I finally mastered it. |
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Post by adamme on Apr 7, 2012 17:27:55 GMT -5
I enjoy reading what the lyrics mean to each of you. I find it fascinating. I loved the performance and I can hardly wait to view it on TV. This is a little OT but I was browsing and I popped into another blog just to get some of their opinions of the performance. As far as Adam's performance, they all loved it, however, there were some opinions about the backup singers that I found to be a little offensive. Everyone has a right to their opinion but I guess that I have always felt that you should be respectful. Some thought that they didn't fit with Adam( as in big women, choir robes, not chic like the rest of the band) I guess what I am trying to say is that it seemed to go against everything that Adam has been trying to say all along. It doesn't matter whether you are gay, straight, black, white, old, young, tall, short, heavy or thin, we can party together and we are one. If this is too off base, please feel to delete it. I just felt the need to say it out loud. I happen to believe Adam was DEFINITELY and INTENTIONALLY making that statement with his choice of backing singers. Folks who don't recognize that, who criticize the choice, are missing the point, IMO. IDK.. maybe it's just as simple as Adam needs background singers and these girls are avaialable and the voice's perfect for him and off course he doesn't care about the looks. I know as fans we tend to dissect and analyse every single thing that Adam did or does and trying to get into his head. I remembered we spent the whole day analysing and disecting the BTIKM movie video when he crushed pomegranate. We thought it's something to do with Greek Persephone myth. The actual fact was Adam never thought of the myth when he made the video.. LOL. Notes: Ohh.. english is my second languange and I know very well that my grammar is bad... so I hope my grammar will not annoy you all :-/ |
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Post by mehitabel on Apr 7, 2012 17:29:17 GMT -5
Mirages said
" Now, can we talk about "imply" and "infer" and why using them interchangeably means the end of civilization as we know it? Adam tie-in? Um, when he crushed that pomegranate, he didn't mean to imply a reference to Persephone in the Underworld, but we inferred it. See? As different as "throw" and "catch"."
I grew up with "you inferred what I did not imply"
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Post by luzrnaz on Apr 7, 2012 17:30:14 GMT -5
imply v. infer
affect v. effect
I used to think I was smarter than the average bear, but a day here is making me rethink it.
I think I better just go back to mindless stanning....
Just look at the pictures.
(i consider adam my personal jesus)
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Post by aurora on Apr 7, 2012 17:31:52 GMT -5
@adam_pictures: 5 pictures of Adam out in Beverly Hills (April 5) - bit.ly/I7Y9OW |
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Post by crispy on Apr 7, 2012 17:32:11 GMT -5
As an inveterate word geek, 4msrmyn, I consider the words "Correct my grammar" foreplay (which explains a lot about my love life). So, semicolons ... tricky little dickenses, and avoiding the dreaded comma splice, ditto. Wiki's pretty good on this: A comma splice is the use of a comma to join two independent clauses. For example:
It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.[1]A semicolon should be used where the comma is in the example. A semicolon most often is used with two independent clauses, but occasionally when you want to join an independent and a dependent clause. The most common use is for clarity in lists that follow a colon -- here's a good example: She saw three men: Jamie, who came from New Zealand; John, the milkman's son; and George, a gaunt kind of man.I believe Susie referenced the book, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" earlier; it's hilarious and mentions that the storehouse of punctuation marks in English has been reduced to 9 and we're about to lose the semicolon as well because no one knows how to use it anymore except in emoticons. Now, can we talk about "imply" and "infer" and why using them interchangeably means the end of civilization as we know it? Adam tie-in? Um, when he crushed that pomegranate, he didn't mean to imply a reference to Persephone in the Underworld, but we inferred it. See? As different as "throw" and "catch". Mirages, you're making me swoon with your semi-colon lessons! Can you imagine new Adam fans googling this site and seeing today's discussion? This is almost as good as the discussion of the Oxford comma! |
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Post by tiilis on Apr 7, 2012 17:33:51 GMT -5
That's why it's confusing to a lot of people. We expect an apostrophe when we use a possessive. But the examples you gave are possessive nouns. Possessive pronouns don't have apostrophes. You have to think of "its" as being in the same category as "his," "her," "your," etc. His suit, her hair, your post. The word "its," with no apostrophe, is the possessive pronoun. Its tail. The word "it's" with an apostrophe is a contraction for "it is," and the apostrophe fills in for the missing "i" in "is." It's a nice day.
Thank you Murly. One is never too old to learn something new. I did not know that about the possessive "it." Thank you for the info. This is a great place to learn.Now that this "it's and its" dilemma is kind of clear ;D I would like to ask this... When you speak for example about Adam and his hair, why do you write Adam's hair, not Adams hair? Compared to it's/its, doesn't "Adam's hair" mean "Adam is hair"! Does it have something to do with Adam being a name?! There must be something I'm missing here... ??? Btw, thanks for these grammar lessions! |
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Post by mirages on Apr 7, 2012 17:34:34 GMT -5
optimistic vine - Jack and the magic beans allusion, methinks Climbing it optimistically up towards the sky and even higher, chasing the dream. lol, I was thing jack and the beanstalk too. I like how you put it. It's so the Tao of Adam Cassie, the could care less is my pet peeve too. Drives me bonkers for some reason. Those legs!!!!  Love the "Jack and the Beanstalk" reference -- it hadn't occurred to me. And really like the association of magnetism with the North Pole, and also getting to the top of the world ... this thread has been enriching! Jamie, I really liked your take on "my heart is gold, my body is glass," too; it's what I was thinking/feeling less articulately. And Q3, thanks for flaying the ghastly "irregardless" -- I think it's used by people who aren't really listening to themselves but who think that if you add a syllable to a word you can't help but sound smarter. I LIVE with someone who says it a LOT. And in 20 years I have corrected it only a few times, to absolutely zero effect (not affect). |
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