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D P Dance
 Post subject: Grammatical Pedants
PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:01 am 
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from the Grumpy Old Men is on Now thread

"gramatical"?

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D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. wrote:
A few friendly words of advice, it's not a chatroom and text speak/poor grammer will get you flamed and possibly tarred & feathered.

Also, you might not want to lock horns with OH just yet, cut your teeth with Duane and hone your skills first.

Good grumping :wink:
Grammar dear boy! :shock:

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:lol: :lol: OK* one will speak in the correct gramatical manner that one was taught during the period of schooling education :roll:
You should specify, schooling or education?:wink:

Grammatical.

* Comma missing!

I've a feeling this could end up in the pedant's section. :oops:

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yep!

"pour encourager des autres" of course

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Other Steve wrote:
yep!

"pour encourager des autres" of course


Ooops!

(that should either be "pour encouragement des autres" or "pour encourager les autres")

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merde :oops:

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Other Steve wrote:
merde :oops:



:lol:

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An alternative way to experss youself 'other steve', would be to say 'putain!!' Say it out loud, its wonderful. just one of those delightful French words that rolls off the tongue!!
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Ta, maybe we ought to have a how to swear at johnny and janey foreigner thread

and then again probably better not

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Hello Fax Machine wrote:
An alternative way to experss you*self 'other steve', would be to say 'putain!!' Say it out loud, its wonderful. *just one of those delightful French words that rolls off the tongue!!
That sounds painful! :shock:

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