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Originally Posted by grindy
**** those people. Whenever they say this I want to grab them by their lapels and scream into their dumb faces that no, it's not quasi this and that. It's exactly this and that. **** you, you dumb ****, thinking that using foreign words makes you sound smarter. It ****ing doesn't, you little piece of dumb ****.
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Epic fail of psychological vetting in MB's Mod Selection process !
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Originally Posted by Frownland
If you're referring to a single group or organization, then use the singular. For example, "Wolves in Sheepskin is one of the greatest bands ever."
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^ Actually, I'm pretty sure you can use either for words that refer to a single group with members that can be considered as individuals too:-
My family is/are crazy. The herd has/have moved on. The team is/are playing well.
"A cloud of particles" will always be single, because who cares about the personality of one particle ?
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
When people dont use theyre apostrophes.
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^ ...and everything that elphenor has ever posted!
(= I'm joking, elph.)
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Every dead fish has to believe in something while it swims with the stream for a reason.
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Sig worthy!
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Oh! Oh! I forgot my number one hate! People (and everyone does it) starting a sentence with "so". Jesus ****ing Christ! So is a conjunction, or else an adverb, depending on which way you use it. But it's dependent on an earlier sentence or part of the sentence. "The shops were shut, so I couldn't buy milk" NOT "So what we do in this company is make pens." SHUT THE **** UP NOW YOU ****S!!!!
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^ Sorry to deflate your fury, Trollheart, but sometimes sentences can start with "so", especially in conversation. Your second sentence is fine in spoken English because the word "so" is an accepted "discourse marker". It is one of a group of words we use that don't mean much more than
"I'm going to say something now".
Other common discourse markers are OK, Right, Well, and Now Then.