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HamletSr
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Major Tom, what does hypercorrection mean?
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Major Tom
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| it's when people go out of their way to misuse a commonly misused word (such as "whom") in an attempt to use it correctly to sound intelligenter. |
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DigitalVirtuoso
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| Major Tom wrote: | | it's when people go out of their way to misuse a commonly misused word (such as "whom") in an attempt to use it correctly to sound intelligenter. |
I wasn't trying to sound intelligenter. I just misused a word. <3 the more you know graphic.
Shoo! Shoo! Out ye grammar nazis!
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Major Tom
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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nonono, you need help.
you're in denial.
STOP NOW, BEFORE YOU BULLSHIT AGAIN! |
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San Padrone
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:54 am Post subject: |
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This word
with this word
make a funny sentence.
"I hate it when people are always hypercorrecting and trying to be intelligenter than everybody!"
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:01 am Post subject: |
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| IS "RIDICULATION" TOO STRONG OF A WORD FOR YOU? |
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San Padrone
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:02 am Post subject: |
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I can make another sentence if you like.
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Kilgore
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| WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | | IS "RIDICULATION" TOO STRONG OF A WORD FOR YOU? |
I wish I could remember when that started. It was dd who coined the phrase, yes?
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Feiticeira
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| Kilgore wrote: | | WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | | IS "RIDICULATION" TOO STRONG OF A WORD FOR YOU? |
I wish I could remember when that started. It was dd who coined the phrase, yes? |
No, Digi isn't a mongoloid. Pimp said it a little after Frisby asked if he was an ESL. Honestly that entire thread is full of Pimp comedy gold.
I miss him. |
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The Victim Here
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Weren't you one of the many who chased him out?
Or did he chase himself out?
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Feiticeira
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| Sure, but I didn't want him to leave permanently, he was funny. |
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The Victim Here
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Funny in the way that Sam makes me laugh tears, or funny in a train wreck kinda way?
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Lemontree
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| Sam wrote: | | Lots of informational stuff... |
= <3
Also, I wish McCain had won the primaries back in 2000. I generally lean more democratic, but I would've voted for him in an instance. |
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Feiticeira
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| The Victim Here wrote: | | Funny in the way that Sam makes me laugh tears, or funny in a train wreck kinda way? |
Uh, bash.org funny. Were you not around when Pimp was? |
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MsFrisby
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| The Victim Here wrote: | Weren't you one of the many who chased him out?
Or did he chase himself out? |
He kinda went down in flames when people found out that he was threatening to put me in the hospital if he ever met me in person because I asked him if english was his first language.
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