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Old Tue Aug 12, 2003, 05:09pm
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Did the voices reach a concensus?
I don't know - I'll ask them. BTW - if you want to get Juulie upset, just dangle your participle in front of her. YIKES!!!
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Old Tue Aug 12, 2003, 07:08pm
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Can you tell off the top of your head the Plu-Perfect Subjunctive of the verb, to screw?
The closest I can come up with is "had have screwed". Example, "If he'd have screwed up that call, the coach would've gone ballistic."

Am I close?

See also: "The Return of an English pluperfect subjunctive?" by Trevor G. Fennell at http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang...rs/fennell.pdf

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Chuck, I can't believe you've never heard the joke about the businessman who was sent on his first trip to Boston. His boss said, "Be sure to try the fish they call scrod. It's what they do best." So when the businessman got into the taxi, he said, "I want to go where I can get scrod." The driver said, "I thought I'd heard it all, but no one's ever asked me before in the plu-perfect subjunctive."


Dexter -- If all i have to do to get an all-expense paid trip to a tropical island, is act like I'm off my meds for a few minutes -- hey, here I go:


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Old Tue Aug 12, 2003, 10:55pm
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See also: "The Return of an English pluperfect subjunctive?" by Trevor G. Fennell at http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang...rs/fennell.pdf

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Old Wed Aug 13, 2003, 11:01am
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Did the voices reach a concensus?
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Concensus???

Mr.Spelling's head just exploded! [/B][/QUOTE]

I done would of thunked it had been done explosioned previously by Juulliiee''ss previous use of "non-chalantly".
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Old Wed Aug 13, 2003, 02:09pm
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Did the voices reach a concensus?
Concensus???

Mr.Spelling's head just exploded! [/B]
I done would of thunked it had been done explosioned previously by Juulliiee''ss previous use of "non-chalantly". [/B][/QUOTE]"Non-chalant" is the negative prefix "non" attached to the Old French word "chalant"- which is the present participle of the verb "chaloir",which means "to be concerned". Thus, you end up with "unconcerned" as a meaning of the word "non-chalant".

I thought everyone knew that!
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Old Wed Aug 13, 2003, 04:03pm
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Did the voices reach a concensus?
Concensus???

Mr.Spelling's head just exploded!
I done would of thunked it had been done explosioned previously by Juulliiee''ss previous use of "non-chalantly". [/B]
"Non-chalant" is the negative prefix "non" attached to the Old French word "chalant"- which is the present participle of the verb "chaloir",which means "to be concerned". Thus, you end up with "unconcerned" as a meaning of the word "non-chalant".

I thought everyone knew that! [/B][/QUOTE]

I know what it means, and from whence it is derived.

I just don't think the word has a hyphen in it.
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Old Wed Aug 13, 2003, 05:56pm
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I know what it means, and from whence it is derived.

I just don't think the word has a hyphen in it.
[/B][/QUOTE]Well,you're one up on me,Bob. I hadda go look the word up to find out where it actually came from.

As for the hyphen, I have the utmost confidence that Juulie will post something that will back up her usage of it. I am also confident that I probably won't understand her post when she does so.
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Old Wed Aug 13, 2003, 08:21pm
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I know what it means, and from whence it is derived. [/B]
As long as we're in English class...

Whence = from what source, so the above should read:

I know what it means, and whence it is derived.
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Old Wed Aug 13, 2003, 08:22pm
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As for the hyphen, I have the utmost confidence that Juulie will post something that will back up her usage of it.
Just so there aren't any jokes about breaking her hyphen.

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Old Thu Aug 14, 2003, 07:39am
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Re: From a professional pendant...

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I know what it means, and from whence it is derived.
As long as we're in English class...

Whence = from what source, so the above should read:

I know what it means, and whence it is derived. [/B]
I concur that "whence" is preferred over "from whence." But:

1) I intentionally make at least one error in most of my posts (a) so you won't think I'm perfect, and (b) to give the grammar and spelling nazis something to do

2) "From whence" is, in my experience, the more common, and acceptable (even if not "more correct") usage. Common english usage contains many repeated redundancies.
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Old Thu Aug 14, 2003, 07:47am
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Common english usage contains many repeated redundancies.
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I especially hate those redundancies that repeat themselves. I prefer the lone, single, all by themself, isolated, non-repetitive redundancy.
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Old Thu Aug 14, 2003, 08:00am
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Avoid superfluous, repetative, redundancies like the plague!
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Old Thu Aug 14, 2003, 08:56am
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"I'm not repeating myself! I'm not repeating myself! Oh, God. I'm repeating myself" Ryan O'Neal in one of the funniest slapsticks ever, "What's Up, Doc?".

Hey, I figured while we're off topic I'd throw in a movie quote. I'm a cross-topicing kinda guy.
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Old Thu Aug 14, 2003, 12:04pm
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Avoid superfluous, repetative, redundancies like the plague!
Or else you may be called a "battologist"!

Or else you may be called a "battologist"!

Or else you may be called a "battologist"!

ad infinitum.............................

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Old Thu Aug 14, 2003, 12:32pm
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For those wondering.....

battologist

\Bat*tol"o*gist\, n. One who battologizes.

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