Moar downtime? who was playing with bots again?
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Flagged for spellar.
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To be fair I had to google it to confirm I misspelled it correctly
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How the heck is that 'being fair'? I mastered your/you're decades ago. I even mastered their/they're/there decades ago. What's your excuse?
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English isn't even my native language and I have no problems with possessive adjectives vs. to be + pronoun constructions.
Unless it's about "its" vs "it's"", because my phone sometimes adds the apostrophe when I need it to and sometimes it forgets it.
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that one (xkcd) was stupid. that use of effect isn't "obscure", it's just ambiguous (homophonically).
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http://xkcd.com/326/
So you're being a hipster douche by trying to defend your position with an xkcd as well as being terribad about possessives?
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Yes, yes. I was being facetious. (I wanted to say ironic but I'm not sure it isn't Alanis-style irony at work)
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Unless it's about "its" vs "it's"", because my phone sometimes adds the apostrophe when I need it to and sometimes it forgets it.
My rule of thumb is simply "the apostrophe in it[']s is used 100% of the time, the opposite way you'd use it in every single other word."
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My rule of thumb is simply "the apostrophe in it[']s is used 100% of the time, the opposite way you'd use it in every single other word."
Good rule, although the real rule is probably something boring like "pronouns switch the meaning of apostrophe."
shrug I'm not an English major.
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The rule is simple. If "it is" works, use the apostrophe. Otherwise don't. It's a contraction.
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the real rule
The real rule is the apostrophe is used when you could replace "it's" with "it is" and not when you can't. So if "It is in the kitchen" makes sense, you can use "It's in the kitchen", but since "It is oil needs changing" doesn't make sense, you would use "Its oil needs changing".
http://crossfitsalem.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-more-you-know-1.png
Filed under: This shit is not hard.
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Filed under: This shit is not hard.
nope, but i know masters level lit majors that get it wrong. :-D
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What about "it has" being contracted to "it's"?
Like "It's been a nice day"?
Filed under:More edible verbs!
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nope, but i know masters level lit majors that get it wrong. :-D
Starting with being lit majors.
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What about "it has" being contracted to "it's"?Like "It's been a nice day"?
or
it was
?of course i rarely see that contracted, mainely* because i think the tense is confusing. it kinda sounds wrong,
*: whoops... mainly... eeeh i like that spelling and it's not a secret which state i'm in.
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never was really, i mean i never made a point of posting it, but it was available to those that want to find it.
my actual real face on the other hand... good luck finding a picture of that, you'll need it.
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Starting with being lit majors.
Actually, majoring in lit (or any of the liberal arts) is fine if your family has so much money that you'll never need a real job. Let's return university diplomas to their original purpose: status symbols for the upper class.
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Actually, majoring in lit (or any of the liberal arts) is fine if your family has so much money that you'll never need a real job.
I agree with you in theory, but the status of modern liberal arts departments is pretty awful and probably makes you a worse person for being exposed to them.
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The real rule is the apostrophe is used when you could replace "it's" with "it is" and not when you can't. So if "It is in the kitchen" makes sense, you can use "It's in the kitchen", but since "It is oil needs changing" doesn't make sense, you would use "Its oil needs changing".
http://crossfitsalem.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-more-you-know-1.png
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Pronouns were brought into this conversation because for nouns, 's is the possessive form and the rule you just mentioned doesn't apply. Which is why "The car's on fire." is wrong, while "The car's oil needs changing." is correct.
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Pronouns were brought into this conversation because for nouns, 's is the possessive form and the rule you just mentioned doesn't apply. Which is why "The car's on fire." is wrong, while "The car's oil needs changing." is correct.
What are you trying to say? Were you trying to be correct?
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Like "It's been a nice day"?
Then in most cases you're speaking BrE and I'm no expert on BrE :)
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I agree with you in theory, but the status of modern liberal arts departments is pretty awful and probably makes you a worse person for being exposed to them.
If only rich people went to college for liberal arts, most of those departments would go away entirely because there's not enough of the rich to support them. So only the top schools (the Ivies, Stanford, etc.) would have them. Those places won't have changed; you don't mess with alumni donations if you know what's good for you.
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i assume you mean speaking in en-GB rather than en-US (or another variant)?
if not, clarification?
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They have people there now?
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I used to vacation at OOB ME, wasn't exactly the most populated place that I've ever been.
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I used to vacation at OOB ME, wasn't exactly the most populated place that I've ever been.
-ugh- that place. i refuse to go there in tourist season. too damn crowded.
it's nice in spring and fall though once it's cooled off and the tourists have left for warmer climes.
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I'm originally from southern New England, so we (my family) would go up north during summer vacation. Usually the White Mountains. Oddly enough, I've never been to Vermont, although I once drove through the other five states in New England in one morning.
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I had guessed you were in the NE area given your avatar.
If you were smart about vacationing you probably didn't meet many tourists.
late june through mid august is the peak of the season.
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I had guessed you were in the NE area given your avatar.
If you were smart about vacationing you probably didn't meet many tourists.
late june through mid august is the peak of the season.
Well, it was completely up to my father...
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although I once drove through the other five states in New England in one morning.
Goddamned you guys and your tiny-ass States.
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Goddamned you guys and your tiny-ass States.
How do you think I now feel, living in California?
Seriously, I could drive from my house in CT through RI, up into MA and through NH, then to York, ME, all in the span of under 3 hours.
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Goddamned you guys and your tiny-ass States.
I'm always amused of maps that show counties. Tiny fucking counties.
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Their States are smaller than most of WA's counties, and WA has like 50 counties.
EDIT: Ok I looked it up: 39 counties. Still.
ANOTHER EDIT: My county is larger than Rhode Island and Delaware. And it's not even close to the largest county in the State...
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Rhode Island: Area: 1,212 sq miles (3,140 km²)
San Diego County: Area: 4,526 sq miles (11,722 km²)
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Their States are smaller than most of WA's counties, and WA has like 50 counties. EDIT: Ok I looked it up: 39 counties. Still.
Yeah, but even places like Texas have tiny counties. I grew up in Southern California, even your Washington counties seem on the small side.
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Well the real problem is California should probably be split in half down the middle horizontally, and Washington and Oregon should be split in the half vertically along the Cascades, (and possibly the result merged into 2 instead of 4 States), then the western States would make some lick of geographic and demographic sense.
I mean at least Texas is weird-shaped for a good reason.
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After a while in the lower 48 I think I'm finally getting used to counties (AK has boroughs instead, and a big area isn't even in a real one). Anytime you look at something different from where you grew up it gets wonky.
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You want some real weirdness, 4 of our "States" aren't even States, they're Commonwealths.
We still call them States, though, for simplicity and also because fuck those guys.
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And they're still states.
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Rhode Island: Area: 1,212 sq miles (3,140 km²)San Diego County: Area: 4,526 sq miles (11,722 km²)
What's the difference between San Diego city and San Diego County?
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But mostly because fuck those guys.
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Map on right is the full county, parts in red are the city.
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it was a joke... wrong thread i know, but still...
although i think it is solidly in place for the single largest metropolitan area in the USA. Unless my memory fails me at least.