A bird with a thick body and short legs

[joewr]

This reminds me of what must now be considered a politically incorrect statement made by Mark Twain, "...about the 435(sic) crooks in Congress, but I repeat myself..."

Joewr...Chairman of the NetDoc for Dogfish Catcher Campaign...

 

[syruss32]

Originally posted by NetDoc
Calling me a politician like that... and comparing me to their chief!!!

Ttthhhhhhwwwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiippppppp!!!!!

I think this knife from my back belongs to you Syruss...

:tease:

But I meant it in the nicest ways :tease:

 

[Fishkiller]

Both DIVED and DOVE are standard as the past tense of DIVE. DOVE is the much newer form, and is therefore often objected to but is so common in all varieties..


my biggest problem with the English language Why do we have to learn it, shouldn't we all speak AMERICAN?


if a dove dove would it be a diving dove?

 

[Zagnut]

Try not to think of the English language as being butchered; but rather, think of it as "evolving"
Given time, slangs and "butcher jobs" can become proper english. Just kick back and let it "evolve".

 

[Heads Up]

Happiness is a wet beaver

It is the marketing slogan for Beaver watersports based in my adopted home town of Huddersfield!! They ran an informal competition a couple of years ago to find a new slogan and the divemaster from my LDS came up with 'Happiness is a wet beaver'

I kinda like it (obviously)!!

 

[Heads Up]

I also share your angst at out American cousins using 'dove' rather than 'have dived' - AAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHHH!

 

[joewr]

Well,

"I dove" and "I have dived" are two different parts of speech.

Let's look at another verb that would seem to be less controversial: to eat.

Would you say that "I ate" and "I have eaten" are exactly the same? No: one is using the preterite and one the past participle. Sometimes we use the participle exclusively; for example, "Have you eaten yet?"

To go is even more distinctive: go, went, gone.

Would you say, "I gone home."? Not likely. "I have gone" is standard English; it is standard even where one spells "honor" as "honour"!

Now, it is true that some dictionaries indicate that both "dove" and "dived" are acceptable preterite forms of dive. So, either form can be used. Okay?????

Joewr...who now knows why Samuel Johnson had such a bad temper!

 

[The Chairman]

You have just espoused the mantra for the "descriptive" lot of grammarians. The others who are hung up on the King's English are proscriptive. The latter would have a gavernment agency like the French, who go around correcting everybody and fining them for incorrect usage! The former founded "Phoniks Phor Liphe"...

:tease:

BTW, why are the British so fond of glottal stops??? Why can't they just manage a normal voiced lingu-dental stop?

 

[joewr]

An Englishman's glotis is in much better shape than his dental work!

Joewr

 

[Butch103]

we should all speek that there redneck dialick, Ya no the 1 they r talkin in Texassss.

Butch eace: