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Old 08-05-2015, 11:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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"Nice ones"? Nice English, illiterati.
You made multiple dad jokes. So "Nice ones, dad." is correct.
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Old 08-06-2015, 04:45 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You made multiple dad jokes. So "Nice ones, dad." is correct.
I'm sorry but no.
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Old 08-06-2015, 05:00 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I'm sorry but no.
Are you just ****ing with him, or is it really grammatically wrong?
As a grammar nazi I'm very interested in such things.
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Are you just ****ing with him, or is it really grammatically wrong?
As a grammar nazi I'm very interested in such things.
Both. I realize that it's possible to pluralize the word "one", but in this context I think it's grammatically incorrect. At the very least it's an awkward way of phrasing it.
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Both. I realize that it's possible to pluralize the word "one", but in this context I think it's grammatically incorrect. At the very least it's an awkward way of phrasing it.
Hmm, sounds fine to me.
But I might not 'feel' the language as nuanced as a native speaker would.
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Hmm, sounds fine to me.
But I might not 'feel' the language as nuanced as a native speaker would.
It actually sounds to me like the kind of thing someone who is not a native English speaker would say.
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It actually sounds to me like the kind of thing someone who is not a native English speaker would say.
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