Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 29 Nov-3 Dec (1806-1810)
musicalsoul:
--- Quote from: zadojla on 30 Nov 2010, 21:51 ---
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 30 Nov 2010, 19:49 ---Likely, she uses a variant of Southern American English, where the rules are completely different and her wording is totally correct.
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I just spoke to my daughter the linguist about this, and here is the deal according to her:
A compound subject ("Sven and me") would take a plural verb ("were"), but in some dialects (American Southern!) there is something called "was-leveling". You've all heard it, it's when all tenses of a verb become the same as the third-person singular. "Officer, we was just headin' down to the general store."
I am now done boring you all with grammar. Seriously, two pages worth? What next? Can we, shall we, might we, talk about modal auxiliaries? They use double modals in Kentucky. "You might should go to the doctor."
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I know that using grammar that way is common here in the south, but it would be a cold day in hell before you ever heard me say "We was fixin' to do ::insert arbitrary stereotypical southern action here::" Now I do use the word fixin' in that manner, but that's about as southern as I get with my grammar.... most of the time.
Boomslang:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 30 Nov 2010, 21:45 ---But would the wreck of the Faye Whittaker get a song written about it?
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10 minutes of postmodern, retro thrashmetal, remixed with one of the creepy child voices from a number station.
That or a Sven-esque cowboy ballad. But I like to think the former.
Kugai:
tHEfOOL:
oh god, i just read through this entire thread, and it was interesting untill faye's grammar got brought up. IT'S JUST A DAMN COMIC THERE IS NO NEED FOR 20+ POSTS ARGUING OVER 1 SENTENCE A MADE UP CHARACTER SAID. that said i'm eagerly awaiting tonights comic
Shadic:
So. Faye can make the room darken. Cool talent.
WITH RAGE.
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