Your never to old
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Fun lovin grannies - tis not granny porn btw :¬)
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Description is just great:
<font size="2">Both were wearing knee-length skirts, white shirts or blouses and carrying shoulder bags. Both are described as having grey hair.</font>
Now it should be really easy to find elderly women like that :D
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Heh. What next? Vicious gangs of Keep Left signs?
I'm probably ascribing too much intelligence to a pair of lowly bag-snatchers, but maybe they're men disguised as old ladies. The one on the left looks particularly mannish. Wouldn't be a bad idea if you plan to commit crimes in an area with heavy video surveillance.
--RA
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"Your never to old" to learn the difference between "your" and "you're"
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[quote user="pinkduck"]"Your never to old" to learn the difference between "your" and "you're"[/quote]
Not to mention "to" and "too".
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huh, I never noticed the difference between "your" and "you're" but now you've pointed it out it's quite obvious, cool :¬) I never understood the difference between "to" and "too" besides the number of "o"s :¬) could you explain that one?
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[quote user="Tann San"]huh, I never noticed the difference between "your" and "you're" but now you've pointed it out it's quite obvious, cool :¬) I never understood the difference between "to" and "too" besides the number of "o"s :¬) could you explain that one?[/quote]
Oh, my. English is packed with words that sound the same but have entirely different meanings.
to: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/t/t0242200.html
too: http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/t/t0265900.html
So, it's too late to go to the store, so we need to order it online and request its shipping to us be next-day too.
Don't even ask about "its" versus "it's." Half of native English speakers can't keep that one straight.
--RA
"He crushed the mug with his bear hands"
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[quote user="Rank Amateur"]
Don't even ask about "its" versus "it's." Half of native English speakers can't keep that one straight.
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I don't believe you! Your joking. I'm not native English speaker, and its obvious too me.
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[quote user="viraptor"][quote user="Rank Amateur"]
Don't even ask about "its" versus "it's." Half of native English speakers can't keep that one straight.
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I don't believe you! Your joking. I'm not native English speaker, and its obvious too me.
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well played.
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I always had trouble with "its vs it's".
But i recently came up with a rule that i can remember.
Its -- should be used like "his", ie you don't say: "what is hi's name?" you say "what is his name?"
It's -- this is the other one. or in other words it's is used when you can break it apart into "it is".
I guess it seems obvious in retrospect. The key is just to remember one, and the other just falls into place.
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[quote user="viraptor"][quote user="Rank Amateur"]
Don't even ask about "its" versus "it's." Half of native English speakers can't keep that one straight.
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I don't believe you! Your joking. I'm not native English speaker, and its obvious too me.
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You mean your "knot" native, don't ewe?
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WTF. Is Big Brother in London, now?
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[quote user="Anonononymous"][quote user="viraptor"][quote user="Rank Amateur"]
Don't even ask about "its" versus "it's." Half of native English speakers can't keep that one straight.
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I don't believe you! Your joking. I'm not native English speaker, and its obvious too me.
<font color="#ffffff">sarcasm tags needed?</font>[/quote]
You mean your "knot" native, don't ewe?
[/quote]No, I'm a frayed knot.
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[quote user="jimlangrunner"]WTF. Is Big Brother in London, now?
[/quote]Haven't you been paying attention? Sometime in the past decade or two, the British government collectively decided that [i]1984[/i] was a great plan for the future.
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[quote user="mlathe"]
I always had trouble with "its vs it's".
But i recently came up with a rule that i can remember.
Its -- should be used like "his", ie you don't say: "what is hi's name?" you say "what is his name?"
It's -- this is the other one. or in other words it's is used when you can break it apart into "it is".
I guess it seems obvious in retrospect. The key is just to remember one, and the other just falls into place.[/quote]
I had problems with its vs. it's as well, before being subjected to Bob the Angry Flower:
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I always got the "it's" thing, I can't think of any examples where you would use "its", anyone?
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[quote user="Tann San"]I always got the "it's" thing, I can't think of any examples where you would use "its", anyone?[/quote]The cat broke its leg? "its" is a possessive pornoun, it indicates the property of something that is.. ehm.. I'm sorry,English is not my native language so I don't know the word for it. Somethinghas no gender? In Dutch the noun is called "onzijdig". For the possessive ponoun, we don't have this distinction, so we usually use "his" ("zijn"). A door has no gender, but can have property: a knob for instance. You know that door? Its knob is missing.
Same with they're, their, there and possibly some more.
they're: they are -> Pronoun + verb
their: possessive pronoun
there: location
I'm not a grammar-nazi, especially in English (as I have to search a bit to find what a "zelfstandig naamwoord" (noun), "bijvoegelijk naamwoord" (adjective), "werkwoord" (verb), "persoonlijk voornaamwoord" (he/she/it, pronoun) is in English, and even now I'm not 100% certain ;) ),but really, all those "difficult words", or rather, the distinction between them, is very eas once you understand what they really are :)
Oh, my. English is packed with words that sound the same but have entirely different meanings.
My English teacher had an anecdote about that, he had a visitor and she wanted to go to a movie. "Okay, but I rather not see Annie" ( http://imdb.com/title/tt0083564/ ), but she understood: "Okay, but I rather not see any..."
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wow, thanks now I've learnt even more :¬) I didn't even know about "they're", I just always used either "they are" or "their" depending on the context. I used "you're" for the first time yesterday in a forum I regularly post at, had a big cheesy grin as I posted hehe.
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Actually it can be correct to say "The cat hurt It's leg", assuming that there is an object or person called "It" :)
That out of the way, apart from non-native English speakers, I never really understood why so many people have such a problem with such basic concepts.
Should I ever end up in the position of hiring people, a subtle part of the testing process will involve seeing if they know when to use "there/their, too/to/two, its/it's, your/you're, right/write",general bad grammar, and similar. Bad English just really grates on my nerves. It's almost literally trying to translate a foreign language and English mixed together on an almost word for word basis. It hurts.
Yew mite, joust has Whale torque, Inn rushing whine Your rite, two me!
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[quote user="Carnildo"][quote user="jimlangrunner"]WTF. Is Big Brother in London, now?
[/quote]Haven't you been paying attention? Sometime in the past decade or two, the British government collectively decided that [i]1984[/i] was a great plan for the future.[/quote]
Indeed, and a recent report puts the UK as the worst non-totalitarian nation in the world for privacy/surveillance:
(Of course, the US is right behind it, and trying to catch up fast.)
UK, China and Russia beat out US in race to end privacy