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English is weird
Loki:
Addition: "the girl" is also neuter, but I use female pronouns with it out of principle. If I remember, that is.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Loki on 14 Aug 2013, 01:40 ---I haven't heard it in the "not upper bounded" variation before.
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The key is that any occurrence of "buffalo" as a noun can be replaced by "buffalo buffalo buffalo".
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 14 Aug 2013, 15:04 ---„Darf dat dat?“ - „Dat darf dat.“ - „Dat dat dat darf!“
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D, R, and V in Morse code.
And you thought you killed the joke! :-D
Is it cold in here?:
Why is there so much difference between a speeding bullet and a speeding ticket?
Akima:
I was reading an article in The Economist today in which "maths" was treated as a plural, as in "Dr. Wetterich is a well-respected physicist and his maths are not obviously wrong." I treat math(ematic)s as a singular, just like physics, and would have written "his maths is not obviously wrong". Is that incorrect?
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