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Feb 26 2009, 11:08 pm
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Mar 1 2009, 11:09 pm NudeRaider Post #61

We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch

Quote from name:Chester A. Arthur
Elaborating on what EzDay said, "I am a better person than you because I can speak proper English," would be correct. :P
Elaborating on what Dan said:
Then I'll go hide in a deep hole




Mar 2 2009, 12:49 am RIVE Post #62

Just Here For The Pie

I hate when people state, "I need to take a shit."

Clearly, they are not taking a shit, but they are, in fact, leaving a shit.

(Waiting to see how long it takes for someone to point out this reference.)



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Mar 2 2009, 4:53 am Fire_Kame Post #63

wth is starcraft

Quote from name:Richard Nixons Head
Quote from name:-_- Kame -_-
Properly speaking, you should say "the data do not support..." instead of "the data does not support..." And thanks to my business stat teacher, I twitch every time I hear data does something.

a datum does something.
data do something.

*head-desk*

Technically, when most people say 'data', they are using it as a mass noun, not a plural noun, so does is correct. You will very, very rarely find someone using it in the plural form. This is because 'data' is usually used to refer to data sets, and information, in which case it is proper to use it as a mass noun.

That is, your business stat teacher is wrong.

So if I take six random samples from a data set of over 9000, is it 'the data do' or 'the data does'?




Mar 2 2009, 6:34 am Syphon Post #64



Quote from name:-_- Kame -_-
Quote from name:Richard Nixons Head
Quote from name:-_- Kame -_-
Properly speaking, you should say "the data do not support..." instead of "the data does not support..." And thanks to my business stat teacher, I twitch every time I hear data does something.

a datum does something.
data do something.

*head-desk*

Technically, when most people say 'data', they are using it as a mass noun, not a plural noun, so does is correct. You will very, very rarely find someone using it in the plural form. This is because 'data' is usually used to refer to data sets, and information, in which case it is proper to use it as a mass noun.

That is, your business stat teacher is wrong.

So if I take six random samples from a data set of over 9000, is it 'the data do' or 'the data does'?

Does. (You're already using it as a mass noun in data set, rather than datum set.)



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Mar 2 2009, 9:52 am InsolubleFluff Post #65



I wrote a paragraph below to use everything I have learnt, please point out mistakes and Explain WHY they are wrong.

My pet human named JaFF, preffered to eat nuts, rather than eating cats. The nuts--that did indeed belong to moose--were salted. After this happened, JaFF then threw the packet of KP nuts into the garbage. There was silence for a momment; not a single sound could be heard. Then however, JaFF said 'I ate your nuts, I'm sorry. Will you eat mine?' So moose grabbed JaFF's nuts and smiled.



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Mar 2 2009, 4:35 pm Fire_Kame Post #66

wth is starcraft

:) It gives me great pleasure to know that my business statistics teacher - the one who drilled that into my head - has a chance that he is wrong. I love you in the platonic way a married woman call love another man, Richard Nixon's Head.




Mar 2 2009, 6:49 pm Dapperdan Post #67



Quote from name:Shocko
I wrote a paragraph below to use everything I have learnt, please point out mistakes and Explain WHY they are wrong.

My pet human named JaFF, preffered to eat nuts, rather than eating cats. The nuts--that did indeed belong to moose--were salted. After this happened, JaFF then threw the packet of KP nuts into the garbage. There was silence for a momment; not a single sound could be heard. Then however, JaFF said 'I ate your nuts, I'm sorry. Will you eat mine?' So moose grabbed JaFF's nuts and smiled.

For the first sentence, you could instead stay, "preferred to eat nuts rather than cats." You don't need to repeat "eating." It just flows better the way I suggested. Also the tense change - using "'eating" after "preferred" - is iffy.

In the second sentence, there should be spaces on both sides of the hyphens. Also, I'd like to make another note here. You set things off in hyphens like you did in this sentence if you want to emphasize what is within the hyphens. If you considered that information to be unnecessary, you would put it between parantheses, like this: The nuts (that did indeed belong to Moose) were salted. There also would be no problem with just using commas here.

The third sentence leaves me wondering why you started with "After this happened." Nothing has happened yet. All you have told us is that Jaff prefers nuts over cats, and then you tell us that the nuts he prefers to eat are salted. But the way you have it phrased, he hasn't actually eaten any nuts yet. So nothing has happened. Moving on, your placement of the word "then" is very awkward. "Then" would more often be used at the beginning of the sentence, like this: "Then, Jaff threw the packet of KP nuts into the garbage."

The fourth sentence seems fine, other than the typo on moment. There's only one "m."

The fifth sentence is messy. First, you're misusing "however." I mean, it's grammatically acceptable, I suppose, but there's no reason to put it there. I would use, "Then," or "But just then," instead. That's unimportant, though. The dialogue punctuation is the real problem. It should be:

Jaff said, "I ate your nuts, I'm sorry. Will you eat mine?" Moose simply grabbed Jaff's nuts and smiled.

I got rid of the "so" because it was awkward. You could also go with something like, "Moose answered by grabbing Jaff's nuts and smiling."

That's everything. Here's a good dialogue punctuation reference to check out. Dialogue punctuation can be really confusing until you get used to it.



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Mar 2 2009, 7:12 pm Demented Shaman Post #68



Quote from RIVE
I hate when people state, "I need to take a shit."

Clearly, they are not taking a shit, but they are, in fact, leaving a shit.

(Waiting to see how long it takes for someone to point out this reference.)
Well, that's just a figure of speech.



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Mar 2 2009, 8:50 pm Syphon Post #69



Quote from name:-_- Kame -_-
:) It gives me great pleasure to know that my business statistics teacher - the one who drilled that into my head - has a chance that he is wrong. I love you in the platonic way a married woman call love another man, Richard Nixon's Head.

Oh no you love me more.



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Mar 2 2009, 9:32 pm Zhuinden Post #70



Quote from Morphling
Quote from Magicide
The fact that nothing rhymes with orange.
Door henge. :bleh:
Silver is another one that has no rhmyes.


I know it does not not really rhyme, but it's sounds close.

Timber?



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Mar 2 2009, 9:53 pm Lt.Church Post #71



according to the oxford english dictionary orange and silver govern half-rhymes unlike unstressed rhymes like land & hand and stressed rhymes such as landing & handing a half-rhyme is more of a pararhyme which includes orange & lozenge and silver & salver; half-rhymes contain obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.

Also pants, whats up with pants and a "pair of pants" its one of the many words in english that has no singular form; the closest you'd get to a "pant" is a "pant-leg" which is a hypenated word...



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Mar 3 2009, 2:36 am RIVE Post #72

Just Here For The Pie

Quote from name:Barack Obama
Quote from RIVE
I hate when people state, "I need to take a shit."

Clearly, they are not taking a shit, but they are, in fact, leaving a shit.

(Waiting to see how long it takes for someone to point out this reference.)
Well, that's just a figure of speech.

Well, it is the worst figure of speech I have ever heard.



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Mar 3 2009, 8:38 pm Syphon Post #73



Quote from Lt.Church
according to the oxford english dictionary orange and silver govern half-rhymes unlike unstressed rhymes like land & hand and stressed rhymes such as landing & handing a half-rhyme is more of a pararhyme which includes orange & lozenge and silver & salver; half-rhymes contain obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.

Also pants, whats up with pants and a "pair of pants" its one of the many words in english that has no singular form; the closest you'd get to a "pant" is a "pant-leg" which is a hypenated word...

The dog is hot, and so is trying to pant.

Sure, it's a homophone, but still.



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Mar 4 2009, 3:57 am Fire_Kame Post #74

wth is starcraft

Quote from name:Richard Nixons Head
Quote from name:-_- Kame -_-
:) It gives me great pleasure to know that my business statistics teacher - the one who drilled that into my head - has a chance that he is wrong. I love you in the platonic way a married woman call love another man, Richard Nixon's Head.

Oh no you love me more.

SRY TRU LUV PREVAILS ALWYZ.




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