Grammar/Parts of Speech
Dec 9, 2013 00:48:09 #
larry wrote:
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I thought when you had more than one you added the e, as in potatoes?
I thought when you had more than one you added the e, as in potatoes?
As long as you also add the "s." One more vagary of the English language.
Dec 9, 2013 00:48:37 #
larry wrote:
d
I thought when you had more than one you added the e, as in potatoes?
I thought when you had more than one you added the e, as in potatoes?
Except he used it, LPNMajor, in the singular, hence no "e".
Dec 9, 2013 00:49:53 #
AuntiE wrote:
Except he used it, LPNMajor, in the singular, hence no "e".
Hence the visit from VV, who knows all, etc. Good night, all.
Dec 9, 2013 00:57:58 #
AuntiE wrote:
Except he used it, LPNMajor, in the singular, hence no "e".
Yeah, but I don't think he was eating in singular.
Dec 9, 2013 01:02:24 #
Dec 9, 2013 02:34:21 #
banjojack wrote:
Outstanding! A+
Wow you let me pass on my dyslexic "how's" for "who's" and still gave me an A+, thank you.
Dec 9, 2013 07:01:55 #
rumitoid wrote:
Wow you let me pass on my dyslexic "how's" for "who's" and still gave me an A+, thank you.
Alms for the poor.
Dec 9, 2013 08:42:08 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
AuntiE wrote:
Except he used it, LPNMajor, in the singular, hence no "e".
The English, from which our language allegedly originates, uses the "E". The root is dug up by "toe" for the "pot". It originally was named toetapot but that sounded stupid so it was t***sposed to pottatoe with extra "T" dropping out of use, leaving POTATOE. The VV knows a lot but not ALL. Some, like myself, know little but use it more effectively.
Potatoe soup anyone? I use TURNUPS in mine. Well I must go, I am out of thyme.
Dec 9, 2013 08:45:26 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
larry wrote:
Yeah, but I don't think he was eating in singular.
No, it was the kitchen. Thanks for the support. You are correct on the cause of my choking. I no longer consume alcoholic beverages so I was trying to use unfermented potatoe juice, it was far less effective.
Dec 9, 2013 09:19:04 #
lpnmajor wrote:
The English, from which our language allegedly originates, uses the "E". The root is dug up by "toe" for the "pot". It originally was named toetapot but that sounded stupid so it was t***sposed to pottatoe with extra "T" dropping out of use, leaving POTATOE. The VV knows a lot but not ALL. Some, like myself, know little but use it more effectively.
Potatoe soup anyone? I use TURNUPS in mine. Well I must go, I am out of thyme.
Potatoe soup anyone? I use TURNUPS in mine. Well I must go, I am out of thyme.
E-gads, we are being overwhelmed by potato pudding. But, how can you make potatoe soup with turnups. What ever they are. I suppose they were originally spunruts. until someone got tired of telling how they were dug up.
Dec 9, 2013 10:04:47 #
banjojack wrote:
You choked on the misspelling. Potato. No "e" unless your name is Dan Quayle. The Vocabulary Visigoth knows all, sees all, sleeps not, and strikes from the shadows when you least expect.
A little linguistic history for the benefit of you "younger guys".
Dan Q. and I are the same age which puts us in GRAMMER school at the same time. In that long ago period, when the study of English also included grammar and spelling, we were taught that both potato(e) and tomato(e) were acceptable with or without the "e" but that it was becoming
preferable to leave it off.
I assume the jury is still out on whether the "a" is long or short.
Dec 9, 2013 10:55:27 #
alex
Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa
banjojack wrote:
As of now, we appear to have lost both. If we got rid of the Department of unEducation (Edumakashun?) and began teaching 1st graders properly, we might salvage something. I think that adults currently are a lost cause, judging by the amount of spelling errors alone I see every day. How the hell can you misspell that many words with spell check? Your computer does your thinking for you and you STILL screw it up?
when I think I have misspelled a word I go to spell check about 10% of the time it either gives me no word or it is spelled worse than I spell
Dec 9, 2013 10:59:27 #
DotsMan wrote:
A little linguistic history for the benefit of you "younger guys".
Dan Q. and I are the same age which puts us in GRAMMER school at the same time. In that long ago period, when the study of English also included grammar and spelling, we were taught that both potato(e) and tomato(e) were acceptable with or without the "e" but that it was becoming
preferable to leave it off.
I assume the jury is still out on whether the "a" is long or short.
Dan Q. and I are the same age which puts us in GRAMMER school at the same time. In that long ago period, when the study of English also included grammar and spelling, we were taught that both potato(e) and tomato(e) were acceptable with or without the "e" but that it was becoming
preferable to leave it off.
I assume the jury is still out on whether the "a" is long or short.
You say "tomato" or "tomatoe," I say "tomato" or "tomatoe." Never the twain shall meet on the same sandwich. By the way, and FYI, "grammer" is listed in the Urban Dictionary as the most common typo, or misspelling of grammar, and is most commonly committed by someone who is correcting someone else's grammar.
Dec 9, 2013 11:00:47 #
alex
Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa
larry wrote:
I was just looking at some of my notes that I wri... (show quote)
this is why I print most of the time
Dec 9, 2013 13:56:14 #
banjojack wrote:
You say "tomato" or "tomatoe," I say "tomato" or "tomatoe." Never the twain shall meet on the same sandwich. By the way, and FYI, "grammer" is listed in the Urban Dictionary as the most common typo, or misspelling of grammar, and is most commonly committed by someone who is correcting someone else's grammar.
Thanks! I asked "Mr. Webster" at my second use of the word but neglected to correct the first. OH WELL, what can I say, "Old age creeping in".
Have a good day.
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