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Edited by
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My father came from a Catholic family and my mother was raised in the Jewish community, but by the time they met one another both of them had reached an agnostic position. Consequently, I didn't really encounter religion until I went to school, as the Catholic primary (grade, if you're American) school was considered the best in the area. Even then though, I didn't get exposed to much as Mum told the principle that I was a practising Jew. So I never decided to become an Athiest, I was just raised without religion. 'S nice. My parents were methodist until 1 year after I was born. After a year of me, they looked into heavens a declared, "THERE CAN BE NO GOD!" I seem to have that effect on people....  Superb. thx. true story,btw or so I'm told... |
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tsk tsk...apostrophes run amok. Atheist's or agnostic's what? There is an implied ownership of something, grammar wise. If you were attempting to make atheist and agnostic plural - knock it off with the apostrophes. Sorry, just one of my little peeves.
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and yes Jediism is a real religion today. Over a million followers. I concur. Experts in probability statistics and comparative religion say that there is 48% chance that Jediism will be rivalling Judaism starting in the next 40 to 200 years. |
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Edited by
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tsk tsk...apostrophes run amok. Atheist's or agnostic's what? There is an implied ownership of something, grammar wise. If you were attempting to make atheist and agnostic plural - knock it off with the apostrophes. Sorry, just one of my little peeves. (or peeve's, to you);) Two expressions: Saxon genitive and grocer's comma. The first refers to the implied possession by apostrophy-s tucked at the end of a noun; the second one refers to the plural expressed, mistakenly, with what looks like a Saxon genitive. In modern times (since the late 1680s) it was first the barely literate members of the uneducated class who used the grocer's comma profusely and in a very visible manner, that is, on blackboards with white chalk to advertise prices. (I.e.: "carrot's á halfpence a dozen.") The á was a forerunner or backrunner of @. "I bought three eggs, á sixpence a dozen", was the same to say that the person bought thee eggs for a penny and a half. With all due respect to the original poster, who is a nice and kind person, she's good hearted and kind, but the title or topic name of this thread was poking me in the eye every time I looked at it, too. |
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Edited by
wux
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Sat 11/28/09 04:41 PM
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tsk tsk...apostrophes run amok. Atheist's or agnostic's what? There is an implied ownership of something, grammar wise. If you were attempting to make atheist and agnostic plural - knock it off with the apostrophes. Sorry, just one of my little peeves. (or peeve's, to you);) Two expressions: Saxon genitive and grocer's comma. The first refers to the implied possession by apostrophy-s tucked at the end of a noun; the second one refers to the plural expressed, mistakenly, with what looks like a Saxon genitive. In modern times (since the late 1680s) it was first the barely literate members of the uneducated class who used the grocer's comma profusely and in a very visible manner, that is, on blackboards with white chalk to advertise prices. (I.e.: "carrot's á halfpence a dozen.") The á was a forerunner or backrunner of @. "I bought three eggs, á sixpence a dozen", was the same to say that the person bought thee eggs for a penny and a half. With all due respect to the original poster, who is a nice and kind person, she's good hearted and kind, but the title or topic name of this thread was poking me in the eye every time I looked at it, too. If any one of you think it's bad being around an anally retentive perfectionist, please don't feel sorry for yourself. It's a hundred times worse being one, believe me. |
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tsk tsk...apostrophes run amok. Atheist's or agnostic's what? There is an implied ownership of something, grammar wise. If you were attempting to make atheist and agnostic plural - knock it off with the apostrophes. Sorry, just one of my little peeves. (or peeve's, to you);) Two expressions: Saxon genitive and grocer's comma. The first refers to the implied possession by apostrophy-s tucked at the end of a noun; the second one refers to the plural expressed, mistakenly, with what looks like a Saxon genitive. In modern times (since the late 1680s) it was first the barely literate members of the uneducated class who used the grocer's comma profusely and in a very visible manner, that is, on blackboards with white chalk to advertise prices. (I.e.: "carrot's á halfpence a dozen.") The á was a forerunner or backrunner of @. "I bought three eggs, á sixpence a dozen", was the same to say that the person bought thee eggs for a penny and a half. With all due respect to the original poster, who is a nice and kind person, she's good hearted and kind, but the title or topic name of this thread was poking me in the eye every time I looked at it, too. If any one of you think it's bad being around an anally retentive perfectionist, please don't feel sorry for yourself. It's a hundred times worse being one, believe me. I can't, I'm an unbeliever. :) Being a Fan of Irony, about the only time I call people on this sort of thing is if they are ranting about how absolutely awful the public education system is, and doing so in sentence fragments chock full of bad grammar. The rest of the time I just parse out the faux pas and chalk it up to translation errors. It's the ideas that count and sadly, a random walk through the pasture of ideas on the Internet these days will often get one's shoes... -Kerry O. |
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Edited by
wux
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Mon 11/30/09 06:33 AM
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Being a Fan of Irony, about the only time I call people on this sort of thing is if they are ranting about how absolutely awful the public education system is, and doing so in sentence fragments chock full of bad grammar. A person and his mistake-ridden paper of complaints about the poor and ineffectual public education system is not ironic, since he's being consistent with his own point.  This joke is on me... I just noticed I spelled apostrophe as "apostrophy"... lol... what a traveste of grammar for posterite... |
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Being a Fan of Irony, about the only time I call people on this sort of thing is if they are ranting about how absolutely awful the public education system is, and doing so in sentence fragments chock full of bad grammar. A person and his mistake-ridden paper of complaints about the poor and ineffectual public education system is not ironic, since he's being consistent with his own point. This joke is on me... I just noticed I spelled apostrophe as "apostrophy"... lol... what a traveste of grammar for posterite... So. You quibbled with the Alanis Morrissette's lyrics to "Isn't It Ironic?", too? :) -Kerry O., "I loved her as God in 'Dogma'." |
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Being a Fan of Irony, about the only time I call people on this sort of thing is if they are ranting about how absolutely awful the public education system is, and doing so in sentence fragments chock full of bad grammar. A person and his mistake-ridden paper of complaints about the poor and ineffectual public education system is not ironic, since he's being consistent with his own point. This joke is on me... I just noticed I spelled apostrophe as "apostrophy"... lol... what a traveste of grammar for posterite... So. You quibbled with the Alanis Morrissette's lyrics to "Isn't It Ironic?", too? :) -Kerry O., "I loved her as God in 'Dogma'." I would have, most definitely, but I don't listen to any music produced after 1972. Well, with a select few exceptions. RAP I can take in any amount, I really love RAP. And I don't joke here. It's good, you just need to develop a taste for it. Same for Hip-Hop and Hymn-Humn. Did you know that Alanis has three double-letters in his (or her, I don't even know his/her gender) last name? Oh, I don't find it funny when a proper person (ie. not an immigrant from the outer solar system) has a name and you can't tell if this person is a boy or a girl just from the name. |
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