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(Msg. 16) Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:20 am
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>> > > This very fact did puzzle me but not to the point of hating the film
>> > > in a treated-us-like-arse way.
>> No possible controversy here because it is in an adjective position so it
>is
>> automatically singular... :-p
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> I don't know what particular brand of English you're smoking, but
>Cov's right.
Well, let's see. In the cited sentence "treated-us-like-arse" is used
adjectivally. In the brand of English *I* smoke, adjectives are not
declined, and are always represented in the singular.
Cov's not right.
Nor are you.
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(Msg. 17) Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 8:20 am
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Adam Cameron wrote:
>>>>> This very fact did puzzle me but not to the point of hating the
>>>>> film in a treated-us-like-arse way.
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>>> No possible controversy here because it is in an adjective position
>>> so it is automatically singular... :-p
>>
>> I don't know what particular brand of English you're smoking,
>> but Cov's right.
>
> Well, let's see. In the cited sentence "treated-us-like-arse" is used
> adjectivally. In the brand of English *I* smoke, adjectives are not
> declined, and are always represented in the singular.
But your English isn't real....
You ain't british !!!
;' )
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(Msg. 18) Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:42 am
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Robert wrote:
> "Covenant" <covenant RemoveThis @joelamb.freeserve.co.uk> wrote
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>> "Us like arse" No... Unless one is talking about a groups propensity
>> towards a certain person's posterior.
>
> It has a certain Gay Tarzan panache, doesn't it?
>
> NARRATOR: "In a revealing faux pas, Tarzan (The Ape-Man) let's slip
> the tribe's fondness for buggery...."
>
> "Us _like_ arse!"
That's the usage in a nutshell !!!
;' )
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(Msg. 19) Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 7:54 pm
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Glen A. RITCHIE wrote:
> "Covenant" <covenant.TakeThisOut@joelamb.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bgurjj$a7v$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
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>>>> "Us like arse" No... Unless one is
>>>> talking about a groups propensity
>>>> towards a certain person's
>>>> posterior.
>>>
>>> It has a certain Gay Tarzan
>>> panache, doesn't it?
>>>
>>> NARRATOR: "In a revealing faux
>>> pas, Tarzan (The Ape-Man) let's slip
>>> the tribe's fondness for buggery...."
>>>
>>> "Us _like_ arse!"
>>
>>
>> That's the usage in a nutshell !!!
>
> Geez, I never thought I'd live to see the day that other people on
> this newsgroup would enjoy talking about arses as much as I do.
;' ))
Yeah.. but TALKING about them is our limit !!!
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(Msg. 20) Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:59 pm
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"Glen A. RITCHIE" <glenaritchieDEATHTOSPAMMERS.RemoveThis@sympatico.ca> a écrit dans le
message de news: C8GYa.4626$_a4.877740@news20.bellglobal.com...
> "Jeff C. Denton" <jf.leriche1.RemoveThis@free.fr> wrote in message
> news:3f2f5f8b$0$16151$626a54ce@news.free.fr...
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> > This very fact did puzzle me but not to
> > the point of hating the film in a
> > treated-us-like-arse way.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Well, whaddaya know, Jeff's back!
>
> And typical of the French, he's left a mess behind, to be sorted by the
rest
> of us!
Sorry, I didn't mean to treat you like... like...like... whatever (see,
there's no "s" here ;-))
I would have expected people to answer the content of my message but in this
NG no one can hear you speak.
Jeff
> Just like in the old days, with former French colonies like Vietnam ...
>
> tsk, tsk!
>
> ...
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(Msg. 21) Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 11:56 pm
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Glen A. RITCHIE wrote:
> "Jeff C. Denton" <jf.leriche1.DeleteThis@free.fr> wrote in message
> news:3f3400fb$0$9600$626a54ce@news.free.fr...
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>>> One would not take.. "they treated us > > like imbecile", to be
>>> correct, true?
>>>
>>> Thus the pluralisation. Arses.
>>
>> Fine, but you wouldn't say "Cov's a 39
>> *years* old man with far too much
>> time on his hands". You have to
>> automatically put out the "s" because
>> the expression "39 years old" is used
>> as an adjective.
>
> You have a point there ...
But you *would* say Cov is 40 years old.
;' )
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(Msg. 22) Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:55 am
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"Covenant" <covenant DeleteThis @joelamb.freeserve.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de
news: bh19pn$558$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Glen A. RITCHIE wrote:
> > "Jeff C. Denton" <jf.leriche1 DeleteThis @free.fr> wrote in message
> > news:3f3400fb$0$9600$626a54ce@news.free.fr...
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> >>> One would not take.. "they treated us > > like imbecile", to be
> >>> correct, true?
> >>>
> >>> Thus the pluralisation. Arses.
> >>
> >> Fine, but you wouldn't say "Cov's a 39
> >> *years* old man with far too much
> >> time on his hands". You have to
> >> automatically put out the "s" because
> >> the expression "39 years old" is used
> >> as an adjective.
> >
> > You have a point there ...
>
>
> But you *would* say Cov is 40 years old.
>
I knew I'd been away for too long ;-)
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(Msg. 23) Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:56 am
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"Glen A. RITCHIE" <glenaritchieDEATHTOSPAMMERS.TakeThisOut@sympatico.ca> a écrit dans le
message de news: rBTYa.4891$_a4.960569@news20.bellglobal.com...
> "Jeff C. Denton" <jf.leriche1.TakeThisOut@free.fr> wrote in message
> news:3f340152$0$1145$626a54ce@news.free.fr...
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> > > Well, whaddaya know, Jeff's back!
> > >
> > > And typical of the French, he's left a
> > > mess behind, to be sorted by the
> > > rest of us!
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't mean to treat you like...
> > like...like... whatever (see, there's no "s"
> > here ;-))
>
> Nah, you didn't treat me like ... like ... like ... whatever, Jeff!
>
> I'se just teasin'; honest!
I know, it wasn't aimed at you specifically, it was a collective "you"
(again there's no "s" here ;-)
> > I would have expected people to
> > answer the content of my message but
> > in this NG no one can hear you speak.
>
> You are so (to use a nice French word, Jeff) naive!
A false one perhaps... Look out, my structural perfection is matched only by
my hostility.
>
> Surely you know by now that style over substance rules the day by now ...
Yeah but I just wanted to put a
fantastic-making-people-laughing-out-loud-never-been-done-before pun.
Haven't you seen it? ;-)))
>
> at least amongst the technocrats amongst us?
It is always tempting to shake the pillars...
....
....
(of course this is not to be taken on the first degree, is it, Glen?)
Jeff
>
> (Hint: Not you, Cov and Robert!)
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(Msg. 24) Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 9:13 pm
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>>I think they were supposed to be concerned over what would happen if the
aliens
> >got loose down there. Remember what Cole said? "This will make the
Laserda
> >plague look like a square dance".
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> >
> >On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 01:44:54 GMT, Compn <co4mp4n.RemoveThis@tw4mi.4sp4-m.r4r.com4>
wrote:
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> >>why did the crew of the betty all freak out when it was told that
> >>the ship was on its way back to earth?
> >>
> >>whats wrong with earth in the future? did i miss something? is it
> >>in the script? any ideas???
>
> Yeah, but the crew said Earth was a shithouse too, so why the concern
> over saving it, if humans polluted it or whatever they did ?
Let's say the Earth was a shithouse, that doesn't give them any reason to
potentially wipe out the whole population!
Also, I don't think that even space pirates would be so inhumane to the
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(Msg. 25) Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:01 pm
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(Msg. 26) Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:03 am
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(Msg. 27) Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:57 pm
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And thusly dids't "Robert" <rdbake.DeleteThis@prtcnet.org> speak, to which I
responded as so...
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>"Glen A. RITCHIE" <glenaritchie.DeleteThis@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>> "Ashen Shugar" <deathsabyss.DeleteThis@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message:
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>> > That reminds me.
>> >
>> > Just who or what are the Octurians??
>>
>> Is that the way it was spelt, or the way it was pronounced?
>>
>> Is it possible that the reference was to Arcturians ... as in: from
>> Arcturus?
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> Ay-yep, that's what I always thought. There's a whole _ton_ of
>implications behind that little comment....
>
Yeah, so just what are they that it doesn't matter whether their male
or female??
Ashen Shugar
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(Msg. 28) Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:58 pm
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Adam Cameron <adam_junk RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3lo2jvc83gi67kk4hdedhlegmgr0f59svm RemoveThis @4ax.com>...
> Well, let's see. In the cited sentence "treated-us-like-arse" is used
> adjectivally. In the brand of English *I* smoke, adjectives are not
> declined, and are always represented in the singular.
>
> Cov's not right.
>
> Nor are you.
Indeed! :)
Keith
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