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 Post subject: Can you be ungrammatical?
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:09 pm 
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Sure you can. May you be ungrammatical? Not by my permission.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:13 pm 
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Can you mind your own beeswax?

I doubt it. ;)


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:14 pm 
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Fraxon! wrote:
Can you mind your own beeswax?
Sure. Will I?

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I doubt it. ;)
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I prefer being ungrammaticalogical.

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The Professor wrote:
I prefer being ungrammaticalogical.

You probably liked the Green Lantern movie, too.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:18 pm 
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James C. Taylor wrote:
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I prefer being ungrammaticalogical.

You probably liked the Green Lantern movie, too.

I was gonna go see it, but so many people said it sucked that I decided not to.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:20 pm 
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Fraxon! wrote:
James C. Taylor wrote:
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I prefer being ungrammaticalogical.

You probably liked the Green Lantern movie, too.

I was gonna go see it, but so many people said it sucked that I decided not to.

Lemming.

[Edited to add]

Although in fairness to lemmings, they don't actually behave the way that they are characterized as acting.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:23 pm 
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I have to admit that CAPT. AMERICA turned out to be extraordinarily better than GL, but GL was still a bang-up good old time for me. I wish it had been as good, overall, as CAP, but on its own merits it was cool and fun. It's at the dollar theater starting on Friday and I'll probably be taking it in for a third time there. :)

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:25 pm 
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James C. Taylor wrote:
Fraxon! wrote:
James C. Taylor wrote:
The Professor wrote:
I prefer being ungrammaticalogical.

You probably liked the Green Lantern movie, too.

I was gonna go see it, but so many people said it sucked that I decided not to.

Lemming.

[Edited to add]

Although in fairness to lemmings, they don't actually behave the way that they are characterized as acting.

From Snopes.com:

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Lemming suicide is fiction. Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not periodically hurl themselves off of cliffs and into the sea. Cyclical explosions in population do occasionally induce lemmings to attempt to migrate to areas of lesser population density. When such a migration occurs, some lemmings die by falling over cliffs or drowning in lakes or rivers. These deaths are not deliberate "suicide" attempts, however, but accidental deaths resulting from the lemmings' venturing into unfamiliar territories and being crowded and pushed over dangerous ledges. In fact, when the competition for food, space, or mates becomes too intense, lemmings are much more likely to kill each other than to kill themselves.

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The Professor wrote:
I have to admit that CAPT. AMERICA turned out to be extraordinarily better than GL, but GL was still a bang-up good old time for me. I wish it had been as good, overall, as CAP, but on its own merits it was cool and fun. It's at the dollar theater starting on Friday and I'll probably be taking it in for a third time there. :)

I liked GL myself. I was taking advantage of the fact that you and I may have been the only two people in creation to have liked it to make a funny.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:49 pm 
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The story goes that, while filming a 1958 Disney nature documentary titled White Wilderness, moviemakers forced lemmings off the edge of a cliff. Snopes rates this story as TRUE.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp

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James C. Taylor wrote:
Sure you can. May you be ungrammatical?


Thats' unpossible.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:00 pm 
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Ocean Doot wrote:
"Funny" is an adjective.

It's also a noun.

Dictionary.com wrote:
–noun
6.
Informal . a funny remark or story; a joke: to make a funny.


Don't try this at home.

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 Post subject: Can you be ungrammatical?
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Jimbo wrote:
The story goes that, while filming a 1958 Disney nature documentary titled White Wilderness, moviemakers forced lemmings off the edge of a cliff. Snopes rates this story as TRUE.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp

Which is from where my quote of Snopes and the link by it come.

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Sometimes a comedic point is made without any intention of it being funny. Just like someone can be making a very tragic or dramatic point and be intentionally funny about it.

Comedy and funny often go hand in hand, but they don't have to and just as often aren't.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:23 pm 
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James C. Taylor wrote:
The Professor wrote:
I have to admit that CAPT. AMERICA turned out to be extraordinarily better than GL, but GL was still a bang-up good old time for me. I wish it had been as good, overall, as CAP, but on its own merits it was cool and fun. It's at the dollar theater starting on Friday and I'll probably be taking it in for a third time there. :)

I liked GL myself. I was taking advantage of the fact that you and I may have been the only two people in creation to have liked it to make a funny.


Hey!

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Rafael wrote:
James C. Taylor wrote:
The Professor wrote:
I have to admit that CAPT. AMERICA turned out to be extraordinarily better than GL, but GL was still a bang-up good old time for me. I wish it had been as good, overall, as CAP, but on its own merits it was cool and fun. It's at the dollar theater starting on Friday and I'll probably be taking it in for a third time there. :)

I liked GL myself. I was taking advantage of the fact that you and I may have been the only two people in creation to have liked it to make a funny.

Hey!

How could I forget? Apologies.

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 Post subject: Can you be ungrammatical?
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My grammar pet peeve of late is people who use the nominative case as objects of the prepositions, such as "between you and I" instead of the grammatical "between you and me." I hear this by supposedly educated characters on TV, at movies and even by journalist. It drives me crazy, figuratively, of course.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:14 am 
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Between you and I, it drives me crazy too.


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I blame Jim Morrison for that one












and it drives me nutzo too

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...Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I....

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