Irrational Hatred
People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
Suggested by Smash Monkey
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
Suggested by Smash Monkey
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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"an intelligent, educated person turning a noun into a verb because he consciously realises that there's a gap in the language"
Go read something about language change (this perhaps - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift ) then come back and and try to justify this ridiculous statement.
There's a reason that linguists and grammar pedants are mutually exclusive groups.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 5:40, Reply)
Go read something about language change (this perhaps - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift ) then come back and and try to justify this ridiculous statement.
There's a reason that linguists and grammar pedants are mutually exclusive groups.
( , Fri 1 Apr 2011, 5:40, Reply)
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