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  • #46
    Originally posted by KrazyHorse


    As in French, the plural second person pronoun was used as a polite form of address to one's superiors. Over time, standards of politeness crept to the point where it was almost rude to address anybody as "thee" instead of "you". Finally, "thee" was seen as simply obsolete...
    Standard spanish (the one of Mexico, Colombia, Most f latin america) nowadays has "tu" as " common you singular", "usted" as "polite you singular" and "ustedes" as you plural.

    Spanish in Spain also has as plural "vosotros", in spain vosotros is the common you plural and usted the polite you plural. In latin america vosotros is never used, ustedes is the only plural, it is easier to find a cowboy in texas using thou than a latin american using vosotros.

    In Argentina Uruguay Paraguay "tu" is replaced by "vos", in Guatemala, Nicaragua, costa rica that also happens, but it is not standard spanish (by not standard I mean they are only around 15% of spanish speakers).
    In one of those countries, Nicaragua I think, using "tu" is seen as girly, so men use "vos" as you singular and women use "tu"
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    • #47
      Originally posted by Datajack Franit
      I can't wait for the moment you'll bump into saxon genitive being used as plurals

      ...

      Asher has got many gay porn DVD's

      No, that's just the way ignoramouses write it. They think an abbreviation or acronym needs an apostrophe, somehow. It doesn't.
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      • #48
        Originally posted by Straybow
        No, that's just the way ignoramouses write it.
        How do they write "ignoramus?"
        THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
        AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
        AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
        DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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        • #49
          Not only he called them ignorant! he also called them mouses!
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          • #50
            Yes, that's the way I meant it. As opposed to ignoramooses. It takes far more to ignore a moose than to ignore a mouse.
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            • #51
              Silly lidl mouses.
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              • #52
                Originally posted by Straybow
                Originally posted by Datajack Franit
                I can't wait for the moment you'll bump into saxon genitive being used as plurals

                ...

                Asher has got many gay porn DVD's

                No, that's just the way ignoramouses write it. They think an abbreviation or acronym needs an apostrophe, somehow. It doesn't.
                I know. The tragedy is that it's becoming more and more popular, especially in those countries where English isn't well known, so people start to believe that it's the grammatically correct way.

                Sterilization of ignoramouses is required
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                • #53
                  Plenty of ignoramouses and maroons who misuse the apostrophe are Americans. Maybe that means they don't speak the language too well.
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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Straybow
                    No, that's just the way ignoramouses write it. They think an abbreviation or acronym needs an apostrophe, somehow. It doesn't.
                    It doesn't need it, but it isn't wrong. Here's why: the abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc is DVD; the abbreviation for Digital Versatile Discs is also DVD (the same way the abbreviation for United States is U.S.). In putting an "s" on the abbreviation, what you're technically doing is saying "DVDiscs," then omitting the "i-s-c" and replacing those letters with an apostrophe (similar to the way you replace "n-o" with an apostrophe in "can't").

                    This is clearly a liguistic holdover from a world where abbreviations were used only occasionally (I can't think of any pre-twentieth century terms that were more commonly abbreviated than spelled out). But it is grammatically correct.
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                    • #55
                      There isn't really a precedent for mix-n-match between acronyms and standard abbreviation form, and the people who put apostrophes in aren't old enough to know anyway. You'd have to go back to an intermediate form: D.V.D. in singular and D.V.D's for the plural.
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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Datajack Franit
                        I know. The tragedy is that it's becoming more and more popular, especially in those countries where English isn't well known, so people start to believe that it's the grammatically correct way.
                        Give it some time and it will be the grammatically correct way.
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                        • #57
                          English needs a royal academy of old farts to say what is and what is not good english.
                          Spanish has one
                          I need a foot massage

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                          • #58
                            Which do you deem the 'correct' grammar, and why?

                            There are eight e's in this sentence.
                            There are eight es in this sentence.
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                            • #59
                              I would say:

                              There are eight "e"s in this sentence.
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                              • #60
                                I've got a (simple) question. How do you guys...let me rephrase: what's the correct way of pronouncing 'kilometre'?
                                I keep hearing two versions of it, namely: kilometre and kilometre. Seems you guys don't have real rules when it comes to things like this, do you. ANother example would be :'uranus'.
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