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And thank-you so much for that. And, I love the word stuff too.
Years ago I started using the word stuff rather than some other cliched words, like the word people use to describe human waste - 'that's some good "stuff" man.' |
As your resident grammar geek, I will continue sending "stuff" like this. See, I can be informal every once in a while.
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Interesting discussion here, and especially the: specific instances, separate rules, changes on the horizon of a such a difficult language, English; but most languages are at their core.
People have a need to communicate, and language, English and all the others, are just one of the many tools to do so, albeit, the most exercised one of the mix. Let's keep this going. Hopefully, Kathy will keep posting these wonderful reminders of the rules that lend to us a bit of the structure that keep us on the same proverbial page. |
TMc: In most contexts, someone and somebody are interchangeable. The only difference that most native speakers can agree upon is that someone is more formal than somebody (just as anyone is more formal than anybody, and everyone is more formal than everybody). (I googled your question and found this answer.)
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Kathy, regarding your reference to Ending a Sentence with a Preposition...
Sir Winston Churchill & Ending Sentences in Prepositions Churchill once got upset with a publication that went to great extremes to avoid ending a sentence in a preposition. He wrote them a letter of protest, in which he proclaimed his disdain for this Extreme Grammatical Acrobatics. He finished his letter with this sentence... “This is the kind of supercilious nonsense up with which I will not put.” A word of warning, do not go look this bit of trivia up in anything like Google. You will find many versions of Winston addressing this issue. For example, the Oxford Companion to the English Language (no edition cited) states that the original was, “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put”. I personally like the word “supercilious”, so I always cite that one. E.B. White Went 4 Up On Sir Winston He wrote that a father went upstairs to read a bedtime story to his son but he brought the wrong book. His son said to him, “Why did u bring that book that I don't want to be read to out of up for?” FellaO |
BT: Forgive TMc and Me...not TMc and I. KmP did not catch that.
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Or perhaps this falls into the category of "boys will be boys."
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I'm not actually writing about Shakespeare proper English. I am referring to basic English rules, like using I vs. me properly and not using double negatives.
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KmP is writing about proper English. Shakespeare proper English is not useful today.
I have no idea what I am talking about and occasionally return to delete comments. I want to comment on friend's articles and should just enter XXXX. |
BT: I continue to delete comments. They are politically incorrect although puntuationally accurate.
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