About what are you pedantic?

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zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Co-conspirator helps distinguish between contra-conspirator. Very important distinction when you are in the Illuminati.

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zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

welcome 2 Clown Town posted:

It is not "chomping at the bit." The correct phrase is "champing at the bit." Horses champ at the bits in their mouth and that is where the phrase comes from.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2022 17:20

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

CaptainSarcastic posted:

What part of "phonetics" was unclear to you?

There's no such thing as simple phonetics as long as "a historic" and "ahistoric" mean completely opposite things.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2022 17:47

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

My accent is in no way prepared for pronouncing arctic and antarctic so I've resolved to calling it bear land and antipode of bear land.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2022 14:56

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Bad Purchase posted:

is this supposed to be about the usage of "good" (adjective) vs. "well" (adverb or adjective)?

because in your example of "how are you?", the verb is "to be" and should be used with an adjective. "i am good" would actually be a correct response. "i am well" would be correct too, but only the adjective form of "well". the adjective definitions of "good" and "well" may differ slightly, but not enough to cause confusion.

the pedantic grammar issue would be relevant if instead someone asked "how are you doing?". in that case you'd need to use an adverb, so "i am doing well" would be correct but "i am doing good" would not.

I say I'm doing well because I am usually frowned at if I say I'm doing evil.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 19:44

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