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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Really? The IMF employed Emilio Estevez so that's really saying somethin'
/bananaman
(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:01, 1 reply, 12 years ago)
spiderman

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:02, Reply)
batman and robin tooooo..

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:03, Reply)
Don't want to lick the knackers of BA Baracus....

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:04, Reply)
GET SOME NUTS

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:05, Reply)
I kill you
man
(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:06, Reply)
Infidel etc.

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:10, Reply)
Zinfandel.

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:13, Reply)
No thanks. I'll have a pinotage or a malbec.

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:14, Reply)
For some weird reason I read this as vintage maybach


(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:27, Reply)
Here Monty, you're a language nerd.
I was reading the Wiki on Middle English and it had negative concord, where if you had multiple negatives in a sentence they intensified the negative, rather than cancelling it. So "I've not got nothing" would have been a more linguistically aggressive "I've got nothing".

Interesting, I thought. I vaguely remember reading something that suggested that our propensity towards double negatives wasn't merely bad grammar, but a function of our language and it was Victorian standardisers, who used Latin grammatical rules I believe, who put this idea of multiple negatives being bad into our heads.
(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:17, Reply)
Is this the less vs fewer debate all over again?
Were you touched up by a Victorian standardiser or summat?
(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:19, Reply)
No that's a different thing.
I just thought this was interesting.
(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:19, Reply)
Well you were wrong.

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:22, Reply)
This is why I didn't start the post with "Here, Battered".

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:25, Reply)
Most likely.
Go back 300 years and you could spell how the fuck you liked and arse about with grammar all day long and no one gave a shit.
(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:27, Reply)
Wasn't this known as the Gonzian period for that very reason?

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:28, Reply)
I believe so, yes.

(, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:29, Reply)

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