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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on January 18, 2008, 01:49:00 PM
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Why do people say this?
On TV: "I left the doors and windows open and after a few days it was dry and everything."
So it was "funnier than Ben Elton" as well? It was "similar to a house owned by an idiot"?
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You've got a point there, Mince. Not a great point but a point nonetheless.
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Not a great point but a point nonetheless.
That's another thing! Sentence fragments also get on my nerves.
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Not a great point but a point nonetheless.
That's another thing! Sentence fragments also get on my nerves.
I thought
Then I didn't
and then not."
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Why do people say this?
On TV: "I left the doors and windows open and after a few days it was dry and everything."
So it was "funnier than Ben Elton" as well? It was "similar to a house owned by an idiot"?
You need a break, Mince.
Perhaps someone could start with your nose.
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Or fingers.
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I have Word 2000. When I run spell check it often highlights sentences I have written and tells me they are fragmented. The program, with the assistance of the most smug little git of a paper clip character, asks me if I want to do anything about it. Well, sure I would, if I understood what I had done wrong but after re-reading the offending sentenses they usually sound just right to me.
Tell us more, oh wise Mince, about fragmented sentences.
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The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
Turn it off in TOOLS > OPTIONS > Spelling and Grammar
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Tell us more, oh wise Mince, about fragmented sentences.
Careful what you wish for, Diane. :-\
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Golly Mince ? you?ve made me feel both adequate and exonerated. Thank you.
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I have Word 2000. When I run spell check it often highlights sentences I have written and tells me they are fragmented. The program, with the assistance of the most smug little git of a paper clip character, asks me if I want to do anything about it. Well, sure I would, if I understood what I had done wrong but after re-reading the offending sentenses they usually sound just right to me.
Tell us more, oh wise Mince, about fragmented sentences.
Sentence.
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Golly Mince ? you?ve made me feel both adequate and exonerated. Thank you.
Sentence.
And with one fell swoop, the father undoes all of the son's work.
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The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
Turn it off in TOOLS > OPTIONS > Spelling and Grammar
that junk that?
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The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
Turn it off in TOOLS > OPTIONS > Spelling and Grammar
that junk that?
Ahhh Peepmaster, I was going to say that. >:(
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that junk that?
The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
It makes sense to me.
The "that" in bold is a conjunction.
The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk (that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line), wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
I am saying that the grammar checker is such a bad "piece" that junk wiggled and chanted. (The junk, by the way, would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line.)
So read more, Peepmaster. People will think you illiterate.
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The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
It makes sense to me.
The "that" in bold is a conjunction.
The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk (that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line), wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
I am saying that the grammar checker is such a bad "piece" that junk wiggled and chanted. (The junk, by the way, would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line.)
Does Word 2000 translate stuff into English as well? ;D
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Does Word 2000 translate stuff into English as well? ;D
Yes, it does for those who have difficulty with simple English can't read well.
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My english and grammar not very good ( so I been told ) , considering I speak 3 languages is not bad going for a glorified maid/servant!!
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that junk that?
The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line, wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
It makes sense to me.
The "that" in bold is a conjunction.
The Word 2000 grammar checker is an impertinent piece that junk (that would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line), wiggled madly side to side and chanted: "I'm a sentence fragment but I don't care!"
I am saying that the grammar checker is such a bad "piece" that junk wiggled and chanted. (The junk, by the way, would not know a sentence fragment if it balanced all its words end-on-end in a tall line.)
So read more, Peepmaster. People will think you illiterate.
No, sorry, Mince - it's still complete bollo balderdash.
The phrase "Hoist by one's own petard" comes to mind. "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones", is another. ;D "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.", is yet another. "Mince is a twit", is one more.
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My english and grammar not very good ( so I been told ) , considering I speak 3 languages is not bad going for a glorified maid/servant!!
Hi Lucy! (You wouldn't think she was only in the other room!)
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Maybe it's the only way that she can communicate with you.
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No, sorry, Mince - it's still complete bollo balderdash.
That's because you can't read.
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Does Word 2000 translate stuff into English as well? ;D
Yes, it does for those who have difficulty with simple English can't read well.
Shouldn't the "have" have a line through it too?
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The phrase "can't read well" is a compound noun.
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Shall we all vote on whether we think your earlier diatribe makes complete sense or not, Mince?
I say "Nay".
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You are going to ask for a vote from a bunch of illiterate idiots?
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Hay less off the idiots.
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And he's the brightest of the lot of you.
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He wants one of my sweets
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Hay less off the idiots.
Priceless!
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What was the question?
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This is one of the funniest threads ever, and everything.
My wife keeps asking me why I'm chortling. I said "if you gave me sex I wouldn't have to chortle".
I'm just going to confirm that "chortle" means what I think it means, hang on....
(Sounds of Malc's footsteps disappearing down tiled hallway again)
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Makes perfect sense to me, innit.
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Makes perfect sense to me, innit.
Donit Get it right if you are going to paraphrase me
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Makes perfect sense to me, innit.
Donit Get it right if you are going to paraphrase me
"Innit" is the correct current way for young people to say it wrong actually. Don't you know nuffink?
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Makes perfect sense to me, innit.
Donit Get it right if you are going to paraphrase me
"Innit" is the correct current way for young people to say it wrong actually. Don't you know nuffink?
OK. I get 'innit' but what's 'Donit' mean?
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Makes perfect sense to me, innit.
Donit Get it right if you are going to paraphrase me
"Innit" is the correct current way for young people to say it wrong actually. Don't you know nuffink?
Posibly a local dialect of Leicester, Read -"have you donit yet"
OK. I get 'innit' but what's 'Donit' mean?[SEE above]
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Makes perfect sense to me, innit.
Donit Get it right if you are going to paraphrase me
"Innit" is the correct current way for young people to say it wrong actually. Don't you know nuffink?
Posibly a local dialect of Leicester, Read -"have you donit yet"
OK. I get 'innit' but what's 'Donit' mean?[SEE above]
Ahh! I see. I thought it was a confection with jam in the middle and sugar on the outside.
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No that's a donut dint you get it.
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No that's a donut dint you get it.
I do now!
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I'm confused. Was I right or wrong?
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I'm confused. Was I right or wrong?
It would be wrong to say that you were right in your wrong assumption that you were wrong.
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(Malc's footsteps are heard approaching up the tiled hallway)
Right, apparently chortling isn't anything to do with the five knuckle shuffle, it's a noise one makes denoting pleasure.
Ahem.
I probably fused the words "choking" (as in chicken) and "hurtling" (as in 'with great speed').
Yes, that was probably it.
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That's okay, Malc. So long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
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That's okay, Malc. So long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
That's okay, Malc. As long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
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That's okay, Malc. So long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
That's okay, Malc. As long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
Chortler! >:(
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That's okay, Malc. So long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
That's okay, Malc. As long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
Chortler! >:(
Actually, I need to check on that. Is an expert, or Mince, available?
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I'm confused. Was I right or wrong?
Yes