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Author:  Cloudy [ Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Pretty darn funny...
Akbar71 wrote:
Cloudy wrote:

Nobody has ever been "hung" in proper English grammar. All of the scoundrels, who went to the gallows were "hanged".


I dunno; John Dillinger never went to the gallows, but I've read that he was quite well hung.


That was pretty darn funny, AKBAR...! :lol:

(About Dillinger... You probably know that Dillinger was much less of a scoundrel than the other bankrobbers of his time. In the movie, "Bonnie and Clyde", everyone remembers the bank robbery scene where Clyde asks the old guy, who's money it was, that was sitting on the counter. The old guy says that he had just withdrawn it, and it was his. Clyde tells the old guy to go ahead and take his money, while he rakes in the bank's money. This is a true story with one exception. It was John Dillinger who did it, not Clyde Barrow.)
Author:  Gogetem [ Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
I believe that's an entirely different scenario. :lol:
Author:  Cloudy [ Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
Gogetem wrote:
I believe that's an entirely different scenario. :lol:


I'm not exactly sure what "...an entirely different scenario." is referring to. So I will guess that you are referring to my parenthetical comment about Dillinger, after giving AKBAR kudos for his humorous post. I put it in brackets because it had little to do with Dillinger being "well hung", but I thought it might be an interesting trivia tidbit about Dillinger, that someone might like to know.

If you were referring to something else, please let me know. :)
Author:  Cloudy [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:48 pm ]
Post subject:  "However"...
Is the word "however" a conjunction or a preposition? I have been using the word "however" for years to begin sentences, and I was horrified, when I recently read on a web site that the word was a conjunction. Knowing that I have started countless sentences on the "ScaRatings" with "However", I began to worry what liljol would post on the "Ban the Person Above You" thread, if he ever found this out.

I can now relax, "however" is both a conjunction and a preposition. You just have to make sure that you place a comma after it when you use it as a preposition. Phew, I'm pretty sure that every time I've used "However" as a preposition at the beginning of a sentence, that all of them are followed by a comma. :D

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educat ... t-or-wrong

It gets a whole lot more complicated, but I'm not getting into it. I'm just happy to know that what I've been doing is an acceptable by the rules of the English language. :D

p.s. Damn, the English language is pretty darn complicated. :lol:
Author:  mudee [ Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
Perhaps the best spelled word in the english language is Phlegm. Although pronounced Flem, when sounded out letter for letter, it takes on a self explanatory sound :mrgreen:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phlegm
Author:  mrgray [ Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The English Language
Cloudy, where do you stand on "chomp at the bit" vs. "champ at the bit"?
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