Why the face little girl?
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Because the offer has already expired?
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March 22th? Seriously?
Damn it English speakers, you can have it all working perfectly, every time with like 3
if
s and you still screw it up?Dissapoint!
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Are you saying there's no Twenty Secondth of March where you're from?
There should be one between the Twenty Firsth and the Twenty Thirdth.
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I see only 22-gi. Though the offer stands until 22-gog.
I just thought about it and dates are relatively easy to get right. Except then you get to February. Freaking February, it's always the weird one, isn't it?
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March 22th? Seriously?
I wonder if that's why the standard in British English these days is 22 March, with no (st|nd|th). it certainly makes things easier.
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Are you saying there's no Twenty Secondth of March where you're from?
No. It's Twenty twoth,
- Tenty ninth
- Twenty zeroth
- Twenty oneth
- Twenty twoth
- Twenty threeth
- Twenty fourth
- etc.
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I get irrationally annoyed when film trailers say something like "In cinemas March twenty-two". That's not a date, it's a month and a cardinal number
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Yes, it's pronounced 'the twenty-second of March', it just doesn't write all of that down. Or have I been wrong all these years and the Queen is called Elizabeth Two?
Filed under: yes I know people sometimes say 'Liz Two' when they're being cute about it</small?
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That's not a date, it's a month and a cardinal number
What's the problem with using cardinal numbers for days? I'm going to do a wild guess here, but all languages except English do it like that.
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QE Two
Yes, her title and name are also not Q and E. This is what we call an abbreviation.
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German also uses ordinal numbers. (e.g. Elfter September)
Might be a romance vs. germanic thing.
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What's the problem with using cardinal numbers for days?
irrationally annoyed
There doesn't have to be a sensible reason, it's just annoying. Just like it grates my teeth when an American says "Math", even though it makes just as much sense as "Maths"
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Yes, her title and name are also not Q and E. This is what we call an abbreviation.
That was what I call a joke.
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That was what I call a joke.
That was what I call taking the mick.
Not one of my better attempts though, 'pologies.
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German also uses ordinal numbers. (e.g. Elfter September)
Might be a romance vs. germanic thing.
The Romance languages use ordinals as well IIRC e.g. deuxième Mars.
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That was what I call taking the mick.
Touché.
Not one of my better attempts though, 'pologies.
No harm done
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Just like it grates my teeth when an American says "Math", even though it makes just as much sense as "Maths"
No, "math" makes a lot more sense to me.
In particular, because "mathematics" isn't plural, so keeping the 's' when doing the enshortening seems discromulent.
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QE Two
That's what they call it!
(PS: I don't know why it chose that particular town when I typed "QE2" into the search.)
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Spanish mixes things. "Veintidos de Marzo", literally "twenty two of March".
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because "mathematics" isn't plural
When my calculus homework was marked, I didn't get as many mathematicks as I hoped.
Makes perfect sense as a plural
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In particular, because "mathematics" isn't plural, so keeping the 's' when doing the enshortening seems discromulent.
Fields of study all tend to end in s. So we keep it that way when we shorten it. Also 'a math' is a thing, but that's a flimsy argument.
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I know when I was in High School, I had to study Englishs, Chemistrys, Historys, Mathematics, and other various subjects.
Oh wait, no, that was English, Chemistry (and other Sciences, noting that Sciences is plural with Science being the singular form), History, and Mathematics.
There are a lot of fields of study that don't end in s.
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I didn't get as many mathematicks as I hoped.
Huh. You get points added (for correctness I assume)...
...standard my school career was points taken off for mistaken-ness*.
Not that it matters a whit, just an interesting tidbit. To me.
*Actually back in the day of belt-onions - we weren't mistaken - we were wrong.
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cromuless
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Decromulent.
Anti-cromulent
Cromulentless
Acromulent.
Ilcromulent.
Imcromulent (yeuck!)
UncromulentOK - I'll stop cheating.
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30 replies and not a single one about the girl's face freaking out with the robot? I'm disjointed TDWTF.
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Chemistry, Biology, Sociology, Philosophy, other stuff with -y ...
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I get irrationally annoyed when film trailers say something like "In cinemas March twenty-two". That's not a date, it's a month and a cardinal number
QFGDMFSOBWTDT
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30 replies and not a single one about the girl's face freaking out with the robot? I'm disjointed TDWTF.
Define 'topic drift'.
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!gimages topic drift
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I get the second image, but what the hell is that first thing?!
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i don't know and don't wanna know.
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In particular, because "mathematics" isn't plural, so keeping the 's' when doing the enshortening seems discromulent.
It sort of is a plural. A "mathematic" is a "mathematical technique", so that "mathematics" is the collection of mathematical techniques.
The issue comes down to the different ways we Americans deal with Greek words, compared to the English. It seems that our cousins from across the pond treat "mathematics" as a plural even though they don't use the singular form. Compare this with logic/logics. We call the subject "logic", but it can correctly be called "logics" (and often is, as in "Modal Logics").
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"Physics" gets the same treatment on either side of the Pond...
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What's the short form of physics? Math/maths is a shortened form of mathematics.
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Filed under: time of my life I am never getting back
You deserve to lost that time if you drew that picture.
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Uncromulent, Shirley?
I think "discromulent" works pretty well when used on a site "powered" by Discurse.
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Just like it grates my teeth when an American says "Math", even though it makes just as much sense as "Maths"
I like my math.
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