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Previously on "Tuesday Grammar Lesson"

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  • Paddy
    replied
    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Are you having a go at the gays again?
    No slang please. The correct name is homosexuals.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by Wodewick View Post
    Other than being one you mean?
    I can confirm that it is not an act.

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  • Wodewick
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    Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
    Really, are you in a particularly bad mood? Is there any need to act like such a knob?
    Other than being one you mean?

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    In one of NickFitz's Monday links yesterday it says Google have given up on grammar rules as a means of checking grammer as there are too many exceptions and natural language is too dynamic. As just about every fecker who tried to make a decent grammar checker in word processors seems to have found out in mid 1995 or something. Basically if you want grammar rules you have to ask humans, and they make it up.
    Erm, <cough>Houghton Mifflin</cough> ftw

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  • TimberWolf
    replied
    In one of NickFitz's Monday links yesterday it says Google have given up on grammar rules as a means of checking grammer as there are too many exceptions and natural language is too dynamic. As just about every fecker who tried to make a decent grammar checker in word processors seems to have found out in mid 1995 or something. Basically if you want grammar rules you have to ask humans, and they make it up.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by k2p2 View Post
    So where and there mean the same thing?

    3/10
    There does it says that? Oh, I see, over where.

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  • Ruprect
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    So, you're unmasked as a complete fuqtard and then fall back on the "sense of humour" card.

    0/10 - miserable fail.
    Really, are you in a particularly bad mood? Is there any need to act like such a knob?

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  • Ruprect
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    So, you're unmasked as a complete fuqtard and then fall back on the "sense of humour" card.

    0/10 - miserable fail.
    Down boy down

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
    FTFTFY

    So, you're unmasked as a complete fuqtard and then fall back on the "sense of humour" card.

    0/10 - miserable fail.

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  • Ruprect
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    Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
    And the conclusion of today's lesson is: Churchill has lost his sense of humour.

    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    ftfy
    FTFTFY

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
    And the conclusion of today's lesson is: Ruprect has yet to understand that he shouldn't believe everything he reads on the internet.

    ftfy

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  • Ruprect
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    "Where" - can also be the start of a request for a ******* location!

    9/10
    Originally posted by k2p2 View Post
    So where and there mean the same thing?

    3/10
    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    This is spelling, not grammar. People understand the grammatical function of the words in the list (by and large). Confusion arises because they are homophones or near homophones. Some people therefore spell them incorrectly when writing them.

    0/10
    And the conclusion of today's lesson is: CUK knows best.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    This is spelling, not grammar. People understand the grammatical function of the words in the list (by and large). Confusion arises because they are homophones or near homophones. Some people therefore spell them incorrectly when writing them.

    0/10
    Are you having a go at the gays again?

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  • Old Greg
    replied
    This is spelling, not grammar. People understand the grammatical function of the words in the list (by and large). Confusion arises because they are homophones or near homophones. Some people therefore spell them incorrectly when writing them.

    0/10

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  • mudskipper
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    So where and there mean the same thing?

    3/10

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