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For grammar nerds and/or history nerds

Lord Jim wrote:One correction:

For grammar nerds and/or history nerds

Those of us who are into history are not called "history nerds"...

We're referred to as "history scholars"...

liberty wrote: Right on brother, we are the normal one it is all the others that are the odd balls.

MajGenl.Meade wrote:

liberty wrote: Right on brother, we are the normal one it is all the others that are the odd balls.

Siamese twins - LJ and lib? Whodda thunk?

liberty wrote:

Lord Jim wrote:One correction:

For grammar nerds and/or history nerds

Those of us who are into history are not called "history nerds"...

We're referred to as "history scholars"...

Right on brother, we are the normal ones it is all the others that are the odd balls.

MajGenl.Meade wrote:Well, one sentence needs punctuation between 'ones' and "it". Furthermore, 'Right on brother' requires a full stop so "we" should be "We" and may I suggest a comma after 'Right on'?

'Ses' is a little awkward. It is likely that 'esses', awkward as that is, may have been more immediately clear. However, the rule is that capitalized letters would be shown as in Ss, while lower case would be s's.

Also, in the movie to which you refer, the sentence 'we don't need no stinking badges' does not occur. The actual quote is: "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" Here is the clip:



There is one final point. Gold Hat utters his lines before he is in possession of any burros laden with gold.

I am crushed General.

Thanks for the clip; I was hoping that you would do that.

Now I'm happy.

yrs
Adolf

PS I'm sure you didn't expect to get away with "Happy now Adolf" when it should be "Happy now, Adolf?"

Siamese twins - LJ and lib? Whodda thunk?

and meade, I think that you and I are very much alike. perhaps that is why I bother you so much.....

MajGenl.Meade wrote:Well, one sentence needs punctuation between 'ones' and "it". Furthermore, 'Right on brother' requires a full stop so "we" should be "We" and may I suggest a comma after 'Right on'?

'Ses' is a little awkward. It is likely that 'esses', awkward as that is, may have been more immediately clear. However, the rule is that capitalized letters would be shown as in Ss, while lower case would be s's.

Also, in the movie to which you refer, the sentence 'we don't need no stinking badges' does not occur. The actual quote is: "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" Here is the clip:



There is one final point. Gold Hat utters his lines before he is in possession of any burros laden with gold.

Now I'm happy.

yrs
Adolf

PS I'm sure you didn't expect to get away with "Happy now Adolf" when it should be "Happy now, Adolf?"

In Frank Lloyd Wright : An Autobiography (1943) there is mention that "A witty Frenchman has said of us: 'The United States of America is the only nation to plunge from barbarism to degeneracy with no culture in between.'"

MajGenl.Meade wrote:Part of the culture? Mais c'est impossible!

In Frank Lloyd Wright : An Autobiography (1943) there is mention that "A witty Frenchman has said of us: 'The United States of America is the only nation to plunge from barbarism to degeneracy with no culture in between.'"

I don't have to show you no stinking sources!

but I'll not bother to post a correction