The official language thread

[PiecesOfKate]

@Sushi

or this guy

[ZakPhoenixMcKracken]

@Guga

I write “HAHAHAHA”, others write “AHAHAHAH”.

Miiii…

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[milanfahrnholz]

@Someone

Oh, sorry, freedom fries. Or has that changed again…?

Did you miss out 8 years of this guy?

[Someone]

@milanfahrnholz

Did you miss out 8 years of this guy?

Who is this man?

[milanfahrnholz]

@Someone

@milanfahrnholz

Did you miss out 8 years of this guy?

Who is this man?

A man we all miss dearly.

[Frenzie]

@Sushi

Unless you’re referring to the very thin allumettes style of fries/chips they serve at McDonalds and alike. Those are French (and not really “fries”/“chips”/“frieten”)

McDonald’s fries.

(Actually compared to the other food there the fries aren’t half bad.)

[PiecesOfKate]

They’re fine if you don’t expect them to taste like fries. They’re mostly water, right? I quite like them. They go well with a double cheeseburger. I have a McDonald’s about twice a year, as a naughty treat.

[Sushi]

@PiecesOfKate

They’re fine if you don’t expect them to taste like fries.

Isn’t that the whole point?

@PiecesOfKate

They’re mostly water, right?

You mean tasteless?
I think they’re mostly fat.

@PiecesOfKate

I have a McDonald’s about twice a year, as a naughty treat.

Good naughty gal!

[Frenzie]

@Sushi

I think they’re mostly fat.

And crappy unhealthy vegetable oil fat no less.

[milanfahrnholz]

[Guga]

Using prepositions at the end of sentences is something I’m perfectly comfortable with.

[Guga]

No, seriously, I don’t understand why it gets bashed that way. I find it a very elegant construction, one of my favorite things of the English language.

[Frenzie]

Avoiding prepositions at the end of sentences is unnatural and stylistically awkward. You should see some of the monstrosities zombies come up with.

[Sushi]

I’m not even sure of what you are referring to.
Is it because a preposition is supposed to be used to start a sentence with?

In my dialect, we even take it one step further and sometimes either split or simply repeat prepositions so we can use them to both start and end the sentence with.

[milanfahrnholz]

I know, but for some reason it is really frowned at in english.

[Ema]

@Someone

Who is this man?

I know.

He’s Gustavo Fring.

[PiecesOfKate]

@milanfahrnholz

I know, but for some reason it is really frowned at in english.

I think it depends on who you talk to. I don’t have a huge problem with it, but I wouldn’t do it in a professional piece of writing. It looks a bit clumsy and might be confusing for the person reading it (especially if English isn’t their first language or they have limited literacy).

It’s a bit archaic but makes sense to me.

[Sushi]

You’ve been lied to. Here’s why you absolutely can end a sentence with a...

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/28/grammar-myths-prepositions/

“…end up sounding over-formal, awkward, or like Yoda in Star Wars”

[Frenzie]

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3407

[milanfahrnholz]

Question to our belgian friends:

Is it a typical curse to say something like: “A thousand (name of wild animals, usually canine)!”

It is of course the catchphrase of the sea captain in TinTin and I now noticed it someone regulary say variations of it in “Blueberry”, too.

So is that something people say/used to say? It would obviously apply to the french belgian part not the dutch part though(possibly).