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Originally Posted by tarheel91,Sep 16 2009, 03:18 PM
. . . you can use "who" in place of "whom."
Shudder.
"Who" is nominative; "whom" is objective. Those who [sic] treat them as interchangeable are bastardizing the language.
Would those same people agree that "he" and "him" are interchangeable? "She" and "her"?
One of my favorite songs by the Beatles is If I Fell. You can get an idea of how much I enjoy it by the fact that I do so despite cringing when they sing, ". . . that you, will love me more than her", when they clearly mean ". . . more than she". Both constructions make for valid sentences, but their meanings are quite different. (There are other grammatical errors in the song; it's still great.)
Originally Posted by tarheel91,Sep 16 2009, 03:18 PM
Languages change, and no rule is set in stone.
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How does one properly pluralize product names like YZF-R6 and YZF-R6S - would it be YZF-R6es and YZF-R6Ses?
Is it only through context that you can tell the difference between two Nikon D70s, and one Nikon D70s ("dee seventy ess," a newer model of the camera.)
Is it only through context that you can tell the difference between two Nikon D70s, and one Nikon D70s ("dee seventy ess," a newer model of the camera.)
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From: All up in your inner tubes. Whatcha gonna do sucka?
Originally Posted by The Raptor,Sep 16 2009, 02:08 PM
I studied Homeric Greek for two years in high school. We read homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, two of the most colorful, powerful stories ever written, in Greek.
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Early in my schooling (public school mind you) I was taught that there was only one way to use the word the apostrophe with that word. "It's" is only to be used as a possessive pronoun, indicating that "it" owned something, such as "the car lost it's tire".
Then a few years later I was taught that "it's" is only to be used when it is a contraction of "it is", not when "it" owns something. So how the hell will students ever know the proper usage if the teachers don't even know???
Then a few years later I was taught that "it's" is only to be used when it is a contraction of "it is", not when "it" owns something. So how the hell will students ever know the proper usage if the teachers don't even know???
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Originally Posted by foxy_s2k,Sep 16 2009, 09:41 PM
For example, you wouldn't see 2 sparrows on your lawn and state 'There are multiple sparrows on my lawn', you'd say a pair, or a couple.