Your real name wouldn't be Dick, would it?SteveShaw wrote:Bollocks!
(It's a good thing you can take a ribbing.)
grammar question
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DavidT
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Perhaps next time you may wish to consider two entirely separate emails?Cranberry wrote:I sent it before I posted. I was just curious what kind of poll results I'd get. I'm not telling which I wrote.
Really simplifies things.
You could even copy the text from the first and paste it into the second, making whatever minor changes you deem appropriate.
Hi. My name is David and I'm a whistleholic.
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My two cents:
"May you both have a good summer" works for me. Summer is there regardless of how many are there to enjoy it. "May you both have good summers" suggests to me good summers now and in the future unending. A nice sentiment, but a different quantity.
"May you both have a good summer" works for me. Summer is there regardless of how many are there to enjoy it. "May you both have good summers" suggests to me good summers now and in the future unending. A nice sentiment, but a different quantity.
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My one cent, and another one cent:Nanohedron wrote:My two cents:
"May you both have a good summer" works for me. Summer is there regardless of how many are there to enjoy it. "May you both have good summers" suggests to me good summers now and in the future unending. A nice sentiment, but a different quantity.
"Have a good summer, mate."
[turns around 90 degrees]:
"You too."
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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Steve, you're entirely too practical and sensible for such high-falutin' repartee.SteveShaw wrote:My one cent, and another one cent:Nanohedron wrote:My two cents:
"May you both have a good summer" works for me. Summer is there regardless of how many are there to enjoy it. "May you both have good summers" suggests to me good summers now and in the future unending. A nice sentiment, but a different quantity.
"Have a good summer, mate."
[turns around 90 degrees]:
"You too."
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Dutchmen?Nanohedron wrote:By the way, where does "high-falutin'" come from?
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.o ... lutin.html
At least looking for that derivation introduced me to another word: crambambuli!
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REGIONAL NOTE H.L. Mencken, in his famous book The American Language, mentions highfalutin as an example of the many native U.S. words coined during the 19th-century period of vigorous growth. Although highfalutin is characteristic of American folk speech, it is not a true regionalism because it has always occurred in all regions of the country, with its use and popularity spurred by its appearance in print. The origin of highfalutin, like that of many folk expressions, is obscure. It has been suggested that the second element, –falutin, comes from the verb flute—hence high-fluting, a comical indictment of people who think too highly of themselves.
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No-one's ever called me sensible in my life. Will you marry me?Nanohedron wrote: Steve, you're entirely too practical and sensible for such high-falutin' repartee.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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Denny wrote:picc fifeNanohedron wrote:By the way, where does "high-falutin'" come from?
JackFeeney wrote:high-pitch flute?
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That's very kind of you, but there's something putting me off...could be your avatar...Cranberry wrote:I will.SteveShaw wrote:No-one's ever called me sensible in my life. Will you marry me?Nanohedron wrote: Steve, you're entirely too practical and sensible for such high-falutin' repartee.
Just watch him change it now!
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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Dale commanded me...er...I mean "strongly encouraged me" never to change it.SteveShaw wrote:That's very kind of you, but there's something putting me off...could be your avatar...Cranberry wrote:I will.SteveShaw wrote: No-one's ever called me sensible in my life. Will you marry me?
Just watch him change it now!