Posted on 08/23/2020 5:36:22 PM PDT by IrishPennant
Okay...I haven't posted in some time but just thought this was funny and had to post somewhere.
I'm a bereaved father and author of several grief recovery and support books. I'm working on my sixth book now - this one discussing the return to work following the loss of a loved one.
Regardless, I was just curious about the proper use of the words "toward" and "towards" and of course went off to the interwebs to research.
There I came across the website Learner's Dictionary and got what I wanted (both correct - writer's choice...just use them the same throughout your work) and for some reason I scrolled down to comments section...
And of all places, the apparent frequent users/commenters in the forum start off helpful, but then migrate from discussions of correct usage of toward, to how they hate the English language, to "And that's why Trump got elected."
Bwahahahaha...Love it! PDJT is just absolutely everywhere...even in the most unexpected places!
Did you study maths?
Always sounds weird to me, but on the other hand, we don’t say, “I studied mathmatiC”, we say “mathmaticS”, so really, “maths” is, technically correct.
Could be Closa the lights or shutta the lights....
Same thing with mathematics - they say “maths” and we say “math.”
“The English and Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.” —Attributed to George Bernard Shaw
And I’m still trying to get used to my lovely better half always asking me to help “unstack” the dishwasher. Unstack? What is that? I’ve never seen anything “stacked” in there.
How do you pronounce ‘Bernard’?
I really don’t know. I say “Ber-nard” but it could be “Bern-ard.”
Looks like it can be either BER-nard, or ber-NARD.
“Load” and “unload” is what I’m familiar with. The way you would a washer or dryer.
“University”
This one has driven me crazy since first hearing a British college classmate use it in 2003.
I cannot stand when they do not use a definite article before it...maybe it’s just because University is so often associated with a particular place in the US that it seems to be missing something.
Oddly enough, it always sounds appropriate to me to use “college” in this way, as in “I went to college at...”.
Do you mean any rules at all? Or a particular set of rules? :-D
As long as I can understand you, I don’t care much about (the) rules, either.
I do try to pay some attention when I’m writing - but I’m sure I get a lot of stuff ‘wrong’.
The second way you have is the way I’d say it. Good to know that either is correct.
It’s apparently originally a West Germanic name; and pronounced slightly differently all over the world.
(I usually go with the second one, too.)
I used to say I went to ‘school’ at a particular University. A Brit friend corrected me. Apparently ‘school’ doesn’t refer to University, but to lower education.
But wrt the word itself, it appears to depend upon why you went there. If you went to ‘school’ there, you ‘went to university’. If you just visited to give a lecture or attend one, you ‘went to THE university.)
Where can I find your books?
They’ve become more or less interchangeable in casual speech; but some of the American states still differentiate between Colleges, which offer primarily undergraduate studies; and Universities, which offer graduate programs:
https://www.rd.com/article/difference-between-college-and-university/
It is basically a round up of all comics. I expect to see political commentary in the political toons but you see it on not only nonpolitical cartoons but on cartoons where there is not even a remote connection to anything resembling current events.
He really does live in their heads. I did not like Obama but I did not allow him to obsess me day and night. What a miserable way to exist.
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