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 Dale
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:23 pm 
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Ok, I'll give up on "hopefully," but I'm not ready to give up on "literally."

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 Post subject: Re: grammar
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Nanohedron wrote:
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That's literally making my head explode.

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Yes, please never give up on literally.

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Dale wrote:
That's literally making my head explode.

Oh no, hopefully not! That would be a tragedy. Which begs the question: Is grammer comprised of rules? At this point in time, I'm not positive.

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These are all style, not grammar.

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Today is not Talk Like a Pirate Day Simon. (awe, you fixed it.) Didn't that say, These are are style, not grammar.

I could be in error. I had minor outpatient knee surgery today. I'm whoozy.

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I'm whoozy.

Pronounced "huh-wooozy" or "fwoozy."

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emmline wrote:
mutepointe wrote:
I'm whoozy.

Pronounced "huh-wooozy" or "fwoozy."

Kind of like Wheat Thins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8-5hU1cr8

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s1m0n wrote:
These are all style, not grammar.

As narrowly construed and categorized, sure. But both pragmatics and semantics are involved, and those are both legitimate, broadly construed. Grammar doesn't have to mean strictly structural stuff.

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"It is to be hoped that.." is a really ugly clause; technical correctness being its only virtue. People who split this hair forget that grammar is what people say and the rules of grammar were all observed, not decreed.

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s1m0n wrote:
"It is to be hoped that.." is a really ugly clause; technical correctness being its only virtue.

That's really a Latin calque, isn't it? Sperandum est ... Da Romans R in ur mouff, messing up ur spich.

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People who split this hair forget that grammar is what people say and the rules of grammar were all observed, not decreed.

Yep!

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