Old Fart Rant

[WalterTrull]

True dat.

Hey, hey! you from Joisey too? Dees an does an dems better scurry. Fugetaboudit!

 

[Revoltingest]

In the Arctic there are a lot of Walri, but not many octopussies.

Actually, there are many arctic octopuses.
The Arctic’s deep water secret: the octopus | Nunatsiaq News

 

[Revoltingest]

Hey, hey! you from Joisey too? Dees an does an dems better scurry. Fugetaboudit!

I've just watched too many episodes of The Wire.
Or as a Michiganistanian electrician would say...."The Wahr".

 

[Wu Wei]

People who punctuate "EVERY SINGLE LINE OF VERBIAGE with "ya know" or "right" drive me up a wall. Had a woman in a conference call do that once, I think every 3rd or 4th word was "right" or "ya know" and she was holding the conference....I hung up on the call.

Once walked from one state office to another and for 1/4 miles of that walk I had a young man and woman behind me talking about something that upset the woman...now I have NO idea what they were talking about...but I do know in 1/4 miles of walking...she said "ya know" 347 TIMES.......
that is when they took a right down another street...which was good...because was about to turn and politely ask her to SHUT HER PIE HOLE!!!!

 

[GoodbyeDave]

The problem with lay and lie is that their forms are too similar and there are so few verbs in English which are inherently transitive or intransitive, unlike other European languages.

Knowing Greek and Latin plurals is the prerogative of the better-educated members of my generation. Knowing when to use them, however, is a matter of English usage. Books have indexes, mathematicians use indices. The internet has forums, Roman cities had fora.

In two weeks it will be the festival of Persephone — shall I offer her narcissuses or narcissi?

 

[sun rise]

The plural of the word "fish" is "fish". Death to those who think fishes is correct. They will be swimming with the fish.

 

[Revoltingest]

The plural of the word "fish" is "fish". Death to those who think fishes is correct. They will be swimming with the fish.

"Swimming with the fishes" is an idiom.....ya flea bitten, car chase'n, butt sniff'n idiom!

Edit:
Hmmm...not an idiom...a saying...a metaphor.

 

[WalterTrull]

People who punctuate "EVERY SINGLE LINE OF VERBIAGE with "ya know" or "right" drive me up a wall.

Like, OMG, soo on fleek, I can't even.

 

[Wu Wei]

"Swimming with the fishes" is an idiom.....ya flea bitten, car chase'n, butt sniff'n idiom!

Well if the plural of mouse is mice why isn't the plural of Moose, Meese....or possibly meeses

 

[Wu Wei]

Like, OMG, soo on fleek, I can't even.

I have no idea what language you are speaking

 

[WalterTrull]

The plural of the word "fish" is "fish". Death to those who think fishes is correct. They will be swimming with the fish.

Yeah. Have any reaction to "casted"? Makes me flinch, even though I see that it's (it is contraction) starting to be accepted. Stars being casted in a show, the weatherman claiming he forecasted correctly, shudder, shudder.

 

[sun rise]

I call for a revolution. It's time for the Dictatorship of the People to reform the language into consistent, simple rules that everyone will follow. Or else.

It's been proposed before now the time is ripe to make it happen

 

[Revoltingest]

I hate people in the media pronouncing "turbine" as "tur' bine'".
It sounds so ignant. It's always been pronounced "tur' bin".
You know....like what those "rag heads" wear.

 

[sun rise]

Oh, the sweetness of being flung around in circles by turbinado sugar

 

[Revoltingest]

Oh, the sweetness of being flung around in circles by turbinado sugar

Don't call me "sugar".

 

[WalterTrull]

You know like what those "rag heads" wear.

Aaaaahhh!! (Running for the tall weeds)

 

[Curious George]

The plural of the word "fish" is "fish". Death to those who think fishes is correct. They will be swimming with the fish.

Lol, why would you want to kill all biologists?

 

[Skwim]

What bothers me is when subject and verb don't agree. KenS has a long running thread titled,

ONCE AGAIN! Facts in the Bible is supported by archaeology.​

Knowing KenS, this is almost surely a typo he didn't care to correct, but it's like fingernails on a chalkboard every time I read it.

But stupid, masochistic me, I keep reading it in hopes that he's changed it.

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[Curious George]

What bothers me is when subject and verb don't agree. KenS has a long running thread titled,

ONCE AGAIN! Facts in the Bible is supported by archaeology.​

Knowing KenS, this is almost surely a typo he didn't care to correct, but it's like fingernails on a chalkboard every time I read it.

But stupid, masochistic me, I keep reading it in hopes that he's changed it.

.

Skwim, you is so funny.

 

[Skwim]

The plural of the word "fish" is "fish". Death to those who think fishes is correct. They will be swimming with the fish.

Sorry, but "fishes" is a legitimate spelling. From several dictionaries:

fish
noun, plural (especially collectively) fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) fish·es.
any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.

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fish noun
\ ˈfish
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plural fish or fishes
Kids Definition of fish

(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : any of a large group of vertebrate animals that live in water, breathe with gills, and usually have fins and scales
2 : an animal that lives in water —usually used in combination
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noun
the Fishes

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Example sentences containing 'Fishes'

Fishes decorate most of the machines and a border of blue paint divides the concrete floor from the Artex walls.Various LOOKING FOR THE SPARK

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fish1
noun

1A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water.

1.2 (the Fish" or "Fishes) The zodiacal sign or constellation Pisces.​

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