nonsense usually. i guess so dude, cheers. good luck with your endeavours
but those are subjective qualities. i could say "you are too much X or Y" and i havent proven anything, just listed why i dont like it. so if a...
no because they are the "origin" of the thread it doesnt really imply a redo.
i dont think it a matter to be "proved" that someone is insufferable. its like if i go a person and say they are ugly and they ask me to prove it....
i have always thought our friend here is lovely
poor ron paul cant get any press even threads about him are interrupted by the far more relevant topic of grammar and the evolution of language.
I hear ya dude I annoy the shit of people doing that and I love it.
oops clearly i meant acronym not anagram
right, that point speaks to the nature of language. it is what enough people says it is. and if it is a proper name, then it is what one person...
it is arbitrary, because ibm clearly is pronounced eye-bee-em. i know the spelling doesnt look like that, but that doesnt matter. favre isnt...
i will buy the general point, but i disagree that this is an example of the point. it is arbitrary to say that nasa is an acronym while ibm...
- the lovely grammar girl http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ending-prepositions.aspx
i dont think of myself as a hero, bro, just a regular fellow siding with righteousness and justice. after i am gone, if my grandkids ask if i was...
i agree that precision in language is important. but i also note that many things you think are proper were wildly improper at one point and...
count me among the linguists that do not recognize the sharp distinction. i will let them know about your dissent.
^ "acronym." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, accessed May 2, 2006: "a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters...
well, mr fancy, explain to me why those letters are not acronyms. because we dont pronounce them out like words? i reject that definition and so...
thats alot of acronyms
1. black people in the front of the bus is illegal 2. rosa parks knows it is illegal 3. rosa parks is proud to break the law
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