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verminstar

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verminstar
Enderby said:
I disagree. It is entirely unseemly.

But, having got it off my chest, I feel a lot better. I have shared.
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See, its stuff like this I just get off on...think about it. The way I keep using words like "ye" and "yer" as well as a few others...does it not like really do yer head in? I am genuinely interested not bein funny :rolleyes:

If its any consolation, its not intentional ^
 
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Enderby

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verminstar said:
See, its stuff like this I just get off on...think about it. The way I keep using words like "ye" and "yer" as well as a few others...does it not like really do yer head in? I am genuinely interested not bein funny :rolleyes:

If its any consolation, its not intentional ^
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I absolutely love yer yers and yes! It's quite adorable! It shows verve.

I often like to read your posts aloud to Lady Enderby, impersonating, what I imagine to be, your charming Northern Irish brogue. (OK, I don't really do this but now I've said it, it sounds a cool thing to do. Coolish.).

But the brutish, mangling of the order of words, well. It really my goat gets up.
 
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Troy_McClure

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Troy_McClure
Enderby said:
I absolutely love yer yers and yes! It's quite adorable! It shows verve.

I often like to read your posts aloud to Lady Enderby, impersonating, what I imagine to be, your charming Northern Irish brogue.

But the brutish, mangling of the order of words, well. It really my goat gets up.
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I feel your pain OP...I really hate it when people mix their metaphors!
 

TomP

TomP
I can't rep Enderby, as apparently I have to spread it around first.

But it is a pleasing conundrum. In spoken English, ending a sentence with a preposition is perfectly fine, leading as it usually does, in cadence, to a further statement. On the page, it does irk me internally, unless in quotation. I'd never call somebody out for it on the net, but starting a general, light hearted thread is fine in my book. :)


Of course, I'm biased, and proud to possess that bias. ;)


But I don't feel the answer lies in the archaic, clumsy construction detailed both in the OP and in my previous post. It is more elegant, and less cumbersome, to restructure the sentence entirely when scribbling prose. a) It was a big hole I got out of. b) I got out of a big hole.

Be that as it may, on the interweb forumz, anything goes. :)
 
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verminstar

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verminstar
Enderby said:
I often like to read your posts aloud to Lady Enderby, impersonating, what I imagine to be, your charming Northern Irish brogue.

But the brutish, mangling of the order of words, well. It really my goat gets up.
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My accent was originally very broad, thick rural west ulster, now mixed with very broad east belfast. I tend to write the first thing comes into me head without thinking how it transaltes onto the written form as it were. I didnt get my education until somewhat later in life, so its a case of some old habits dying harder than others. I am very direct in real life and tend not to hold back what I say or to whom...I say what I think...unfortunately I also type what I think and I think in me natural accent so...sorry :p

Ive been corrected about it many many times, because my engish grammar is actually very good, and it appears more like its intentional, but it genuinely isnt meant in that way, can assure ye of that ^

Ye the mixing up of words...I actually trigger meself if I try...I literally cannot do it even when I try to write it...how weird is that?
 
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verminstar said:
My accent was originally very broad, thick rural west ulster, now mixed with very broad east belfast. I tend to write the first thing comes into me head without thinking how it transaltes onto the written form as it were. I didnt get my education until somewhat later in life, so its a case of some old habits dying harder than others. I am very direct in real life and tend not to hold back what I say or to whom...I say what I think...unfortunately I also type what I think and I think in me natural accent so...sorry :p

Ive been corrected about it many many times, because my engish grammar is actually very good, and it appears more like its intentional, but it genuinely isnt meant in that way, can assure ye of that ^
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I think that you write most admirably, sir. Yours are some of the few posts of which I always make sure to read all of.

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Marklar_

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verminstar said:
My accent was originally very broad, thick rural west ulster, now mixed with very broad east belfast. I tend to write the first thing comes into me head without thinking how it transaltes onto the written form as it were. I didnt get my education until somewhat later in life, so its a case of some old habits dying harder than others. I am very direct in real life and tend not to hold back what I say or to whom...I say what I think...unfortunately I also type what I think and I think in me natural accent so...sorry :p

Ive been corrected about it many many times, because my engish grammar is actually very good, and it appears more like its intentional, but it genuinely isnt meant in that way, can assure ye of that ^
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You write the way you speak, which is good writing and harder than it sounds.
 

TomP

TomP
verminstar said:
My accent was originally very broad, thick rural west ulster, now mixed with very broad east belfast. I tend to write the first thing comes into me head without thinking how it transaltes onto the written form as it were. I didnt get my education until somewhat later in life, so its a case of some old habits dying harder than others. I am very direct in real life and tend not to hold back what I say or to whom...I say what I think...unfortunately I also type what I think and I think in me natural accent so...sorry :p

Ive been corrected about it many many times, because my engish grammar is actually very good, and it appears more like its intentional, but it genuinely isnt meant in that way, can assure ye of that ^

Ye the mixing up of words...I actually trigger meself if I try...I literally cannot do it even when I try to write it...how weird is that?
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You write well, and that's what counts. I enjoy quite a lot of the writing on this forum, there are some excellent communicators.
 

verminstar

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verminstar
"blushes"...my my its hot in here all of a sudden :x

Its not always a good thing though...one makes as many enemies as friends when ye say what ye think and I already have deep rooted issues with authority. Sometimes that comes across as confrontational...ok sometimes it sorta is but Im an explorer dammit...all the socializing I do in this game is on the forums and its not always roses and sunshine...

That being said...Im still miffed about beigification...sorry I went there I couldnt help meself ^
 

TomP

TomP
Enderby said:
You and that beige!
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And what, exactly, is wrong with beige, Enderby?

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Winterwalker

Winterwalker
The word "and" five times in a row .. grammar correct -->

A signwriter is repainting the sign for "The Pig And Whistle" .. quaint old English pub.
His mate, holding the ladder suddenly exclaims, "Stop, stop! You made a mistake ..."
"The spaces between pig and and, and and and whistle aren't the same!"
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oh, oh, true grammar story!
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And now for your delectation and delight, the word "had" no less than nine (yes, count them, nine) times in a row, grammar correct here goes -->

James and John are sitting an English Grammar test. James gets a better mark than John because James, where John had had, had had had. Had had had had the examiner's approval!

That's the best that I can think of. :p
 
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