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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used
>>>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm
>>>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>>>
>>> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the
>>> hell can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done
>>> it". WTF
>>
>> Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in
>> writing "i could've gone home". To the ear it sounds like "of"
>> instead of "have". So it's not surprising it gets written this way
>> sometimes.
>
> Thanks. But knowing the reasons/excuses doesn't make me stop wanting to
> shoot them.
Indeed. OTOH, if you shoot them, they'll never learn. Except maybe by
some bizarre natural selection process.
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:27:33 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmail com>
wrote:
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>Indeed. OTOH, if you shoot them, they'll never learn. Except maybe by
>some bizarre natural selection process.
But they might learn for their next life. :-)
Regards
Stephen
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Indeed. OTOH, if you shoot them, they'll never learn. Except maybe by
> some bizarre natural selection process.
Sometimes I feel like thinning the herd wouldn't be that bad of an idea...
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> I have never heard of such game in France either.
I'm not sure you actually have to recognise the game to understand the
joke. Me, it wasn't funny, and I'd never heard of anything similar, but
I understood what was going on.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Gilles Tran wrote:
> > I have never heard of such game in France either.
> I'm not sure you actually have to recognise the game to understand the
> joke. Me, it wasn't funny, and I'd never heard of anything similar, but
> I understood what was going on.
Even after reading about the game and fully understanding the strip,
IMO not one of the best ones xkcd has to offer, either.
--
- Warp
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