The more i thought about, the more i concluded nothing wrong with it..Or using a capital letter in the middle of a sentence...
I knew teachers who thought school was the Borg collective and did no real teaching.I've always considered myself to be a grammar Nazi, but I can't remember ever learning it as a grammar rule. I would agree that it's something you probably just assimilate.
I knew teachers who thought school was the Borg collective and did no real teaching.
Any one who calls the main dish in a meal an entree should back away now…Steve,
Didn’t you study Foods? Or was it Eats?
Joe
Since we’re here and discussing English usage, why do the British put an s on math?
Seriously, man. WTFs.
Joe
Love that one! Also good is: "that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is."Time for the old chestnut again.
"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher".
I'm not saying that American English is consistent here either. We blather on about our time "in college" while we're having coffee with our friends "in town". But that's the same in the UK, so why the difference for "hospital"? We can at least all agree that no one says "Please remember to buy some bread while you're in supermarket," so what makes a hospital building different?Our in house grammar experts might have to confer in camera over that one.
I studied Biochemistries. Biochemistries students and organic chemistries students are really clever, we can count to 4 and everything.
It's a chemist's joke about the valency of carbon, which is 4. It means that carbon can form 4 organic (covalent) bonds. The elements found in organic compounds basically never exhibit a valency greater than 4. Valencies of 1 and 2 are commonplace, 3 is rare and 4 is generally only carbon. Inorganic compounds form ionic bonds. They can upon occasion exceed 4 bonds, but ionic bonds differ conceptually and in nature from covalent bonds and the chemists' notation is different. The joke therefore runs that organic chemists and biochemists count up as "one, two, three, four, fi... Oh f*** it, it's ionic. Who cares?."I'd have thought you needed a lot more than 4 for some of those biochemical molecule things. You live and learn.
Dunno. I'm in work. Should I be in the work?I'm not saying that American English is consistent here either. We blather on about our time "in college" while we're having coffee with our friends "in town". But that's the same in the UK, so why the difference for "hospital"? We can at least all agree that no one says "Please remember to buy some bread while you're in supermarket," so what makes a hospital building different?
I don't think anyone does, do they?Any one who calls the main dish in a meal an entree should back away now…
I have not seen the mathematic proof. Similar to systematatic proof.Given my comment above, that there is no word 'mathematic', are you sure?
Mathematical, surely?I have not seen the mathematic proof. Similar to systematatic proof.
Well, of the examples cited, 'in the supermarket' seems to be the odd one out. We find ourselves 'in school', 'in college', 'in town'. If we found ourselves 'in trouble' we might then be 'in court' and end up 'in prison'. Alternatively, we might find ourselves 'in the city', 'in the dentist's', 'in the office' or, preferably, 'in the pub'.I'm not saying that American English is consistent here either. We blather on about our time "in college" while we're having coffee with our friends "in town". But that's the same in the UK, so why the difference for "hospital"? We can at least all agree that no one says "Please remember to buy some bread while you're in supermarket," so what makes a hospital building different?