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Did you see how he was hung? By a 10 foot rope....
Mate I try lol…. I’m dyslexic, color blind, got ADHD CDO ( it’s like OCD but in the correct order )
i can get there their and they’re mixed up even though I no i mean know the difference in the meanings. Makes writing so hard to be honest.
love this thread ❤️
I can't stand "my bad". Boils my piss.
It's still hanged, lad, no matter how you place it.
Same with pled.
He pleaded guilty. He cannot have plead guilty.
It's not my fault, it's English.
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It would appear you are incorrect on that. I had to look it up, myself.
From Merriam-Webster:
Pleaded vs. Pled
Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled (or sometimes plead, which is pronounced alike). From the beginning, pled has faced competition from the regular form pleaded, which eventually came to predominate in mainstream British English. Pled was and is used in Scottish English, which is likely how it came to American English. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pled was attacked by many American usage commentators (perhaps because it was not in good British use). Though still sometimes criticized, it is fully respectable today and both pled (or plead) and pleaded are in good use in the U.S. In legal use (such as “pleaded guilty,” “pled guilty”), both forms are standard, though pleaded is used with greater frequency. In nonlegal use (such as “pleaded for help”), pleaded appears more commonly, though pled is also considered standard.
My high-school English teacher BS'd me...
"For all intents and purposes."
The above is the correct way to say that phrase. It means, basically, "in virtually every possible scenario," "de-facto," or "by default." A great use of this term in our MX world recently would have been after round 8 of the 450 MX series this year: "For all intents and purposes, Jett Lawrence is the 2023 MX Champion." He hadn't wrapped it up yet, but there was very little doubt.
This contrasts with the erroneous "all intensive purposes," which is not a phrase. Never say that. Intensive means "done with intensity." We go to Intensive Care for bad injuries.
Probably already been answered but what is the difference and proper usage of "effect" vs "affect"?
Impossible to know, I use it wrong 100% of the time. I just download Grammarly and have it tell me I'm using the wrong one
Haha, so true.
Affect is a verb, effect is a noun. If something has an effect, it affects you.
My father suffered the effects of his stroke for the rest of his life.
Most vaccinated people will not be affected by Polio.
Thanks man. I'll try to wrap my head around it.
It won't matter, you'll still get it wrong.
I have to sit and do a Biden trying to figure it out.
Just let 'er rip.
"We heard you was hung"
"You heard right".
You've read my rambling shit. I try to be coherent but the older I get it's like trying to figure out if it's "just" a fart or something more solid.
Everyone has gambled on a fart at some point.
I'm more measured now but I can still get it wrong.
Does anyone else feel like spelling and grammar is at an all-time low in this sport? I've seen so many issues lately.
Yamaha's press release announcing Enzo Lopes is the most recent: "After a strong finish to his amatuer career..."
I mean, we are talking about the very basics there. Typo? Perhaps, but it would have been noted by the program.
Oh and, yes, I dug this thread up specifically to say this. Haha!
"Amature" is a hard word...
Pit Row
* amateur
*Notice the quotation marks and the laughing guy.
I got that immediately... I'm sure everyone else did too.
I know the proper word is "hanged" but I'll probably still say I hung a picture on the wall, again because I'm grammatically challenged.
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I think that's right.
I'm talking execution. The man wasn't hung (although he was), but he was " hanged".
It actually sounds weird.
If you say; "I hanged a picture on the wall", I will no longer be your friend in social places....
"To be hanged" is the method of execution wherein one is killed via a noose. "To hang" is what you do with pictures. Both are verbs describing different events.
He was hanged by the neck until dead.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.
I keep telling my wife (who doesn't believe me) the world does revolve around me
Good luck with that, brother.
Foul vs. Fowl
I was recently reading about an MTB event that I'd like to attend, and they mentioned there are no refunds for fowl weather. I hope not! Unless it starts raining chickens, I don't think that will be a problem.
Foul - as an adjective, it means bad, displeasing or downright nasty.
The weather was foul. Or, Take out the trash. It is foul-smelling!
Foul can also be used as a verb, as in violating the rules of a contest or game.
The amazing touchdown pass was negated due to the foul in the backfield.
Fowl, on the other hand, refers to birds of any kind, or sometimes more specifically, poultry. (Chickens, Turkeys, Pheasants.)
I don't think all birds are fowl. Are you sure?
Sounds like you have some knowledge of how wives think?
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