Is Paris burnin'?

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
But why is it also the simple past and the past participle? Makes you think we don't need any of these ending thingamajiggies.
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A brief etymology here. I suspect that "putted" was lost as the generative rules (phonically add 'd', add 't', or add 'schwa-d' (morphologically all "ed")) started to take shape.

As to why do we need morphological changes to indicate tense at all: to indicate the time-frame of the described event. For example, does "I meet the man" describe something that has happened or is happening?
 
What blows my mind is the increasing (BIG) number of (intelligent) people who use "I", "he", "they", etc. as objects of verbs and prepositions. Example: They gave John Doe and I a gift...They gave a gift to John Doe and I.

It really grates.

. . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

What blows my mind is the increasing BIG number of (intelligent) people who use "I", "he", "they", etc. as objects of verbs and prepositions. Example: They gave John Doe and I a gift...They gave a gift to John Doe and I.

It really grates.

. . . . . Pete
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Trolling for the Politburo's grammar police?

Adverbs modify adjectives, plus for a number you'd probably want to use large rather than big. Ergo, "the increasingly large number of people . . ."
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

What blows my mind is the increasing (BIG) number of (intelligent) people who use "I", "he", "they", etc. as objects of verbs and prepositions. Example: They gave John Doe and I a gift...They gave a gift to John Doe and I.

It really grates.

. . . . . Pete
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I'm not sure that talking like a character out of Damon Runyon is the same thing as making a grammatical error.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Peter Creasey:

What blows my mind is the increasing (BIG) number of (intelligent) people who use "I", "he", "they", etc. as objects of verbs and prepositions. Example: They gave John Doe and I a gift...They gave a gift to John Doe and I.

It really grates.

. . . . . Pete
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I'm not sure that talking like a character out of Damon Runyon is the same thing as making a grammatical error.
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Prof - 1; grammar police - 0
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MLipton:
I've got the horse right here. His name is Paul Revere.

Nat'an Detroyt
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Didn't Nicely nicely sing that?
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It was a duet, but yes. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

Mark Lipton
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That's because there are two Nicelys.

It's actually a trio. But Paul Revere is Nicely's horse.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

That's because there are two Nicelys.

It's actually a trio. But Paul Revere is Nicely's horse.
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Is that the horse who warned us about the British trying to violate our 2nd Amendment rights? Michelle Bachman told me about him.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MLipton:
I've got the horse right here. His name is Paul Revere.

Nat'an Detroyt
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Didn't Nicely nicely sing that?
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It was a duet, but yes. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
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That's because there are two Nicelys.
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But Nicely-Nicely does sing nicely.

It's actually a trio.
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With Benny and Rusty.

(I hear his great grandfather was Equipoise!)
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MLipton:
I've got the horse right here. His name is Paul Revere.

Nat'an Detroyt
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Didn't Nicely nicely sing that?
Click to expand...

It was a duet, but yes. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

Mark Lipton
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That's because there are two Nicelys.

It's actually a trio. But Paul Revere is Nicely's horse.
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What? No love for Can Do?

Mark Lipton
 
2013 Julien Guillot Chénas Ultimatum Climat 12.0% had the lovely carbonic aromas that launched a thousand paddle boats but the ample acidity seemed disjointed and the flavour was compromised by yeastiness, to which I seem especially sensitive (Marcia didn't mind it). May have refermented a tad due to the interventionist decision to block the addition of sulphur or veto any sterile filtration before bottling.
 
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