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Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
batman and robin tooooo..
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Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:03,
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Don't want to lick the knackers of BA Baracus....
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Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:04,
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GET SOME NUTS
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:05,
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I kill you
man
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:06,
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Infidel etc.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:10,
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Zinfandel.
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Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:13,
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No thanks. I'll have a pinotage or a malbec.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:14,
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For some weird reason I read this as vintage maybach

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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:27,
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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.
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Kroney, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:17,
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Is this the less vs fewer debate all over again?
Were you touched up by a Victorian standardiser or summat?
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:19,
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No that's a different thing.
I just thought this was interesting.
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Kroney, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:19,
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Well you were wrong.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:22,
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This is why I didn't start the post with "Here, Battered".
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Kroney, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:25,
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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.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:27,
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Wasn't this known as the Gonzian period for that very reason?
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:28,
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I believe so, yes.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:29,
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