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Hi,
A case of the pot calling the kettle black?
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| #33 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 11:14 am Recommend with or without 'to' |
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Hi Alan,
Have you ever been to the United States?
All the best
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| #34 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 11:50 am Recommend with or without 'to' |
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No, he hasn't, EU. 
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| #35 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 12:17 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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| Alan wrote: | | A case of the pot calling the kettle black? |
Not at all, Alan. I was simply kind enough to offer you corrections. Did you not put those words in bold because you were unsure about whether they would be used in American English?  Using boldface type for the word shall couldn't possibly have been more of your sarcasm -- after all, earlier in this very thread you stated that you were going to refrain from doing any more of that.
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Or are you just annoyed that the New York Times didn't prove what you'd hoped it would prove and instead verified what I've been telling you about the use of shall?
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| #36 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 12:39 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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Hi Amy,
I can see you're still steaming - which is a bit sad really. By the way I see you've not only taken it upon yourself to 'correct' my posts but also to answer posts directed at me. Incidentally my use of 'shall' in bold was neither concern about what would be used in American English nor sarcasm - it was simply an attempt at humour but clearly it's water off a duck's back.
Let's conclude this absurd correspondence as follows with words written by those wonderful American Gershwin brothers:
| Quote: | You say eether and I say eyether,
You say neether and I say nyther;
Eether, eyether, neether, nyther,
Let's call the whole thing off!
You like potato and I like potahto,
You like tomato and I like tomahto;
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!
Let's call the whole thing off!
But oh! If we call the whole thing off,
Then we must part.
And oh! If we ever part,
Then that might break my heart!
So, if you like pajamas and I like pajahmas,
I'll wear pajamas and give up pajahmas.
For we know we need each other,
So we better call the calling off off.
Let's call the whole thing off!
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| #37 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 13:33 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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hey, guys, check this out:
This makes me laugh, every time.
Mr. T is a spectacle to behold.
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| #38 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 14:54 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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| Alan wrote: | | By the way I see you've not only taken it upon yourself to 'correct' my posts but also to answer posts directed at me. |
Now that's calling the kettle black.
My response to EU was accurate, was it not?
I made a point of answering EU's question, Alan, because you chose to sarcastically respond to a post Torsten had directed at me. Your complaint about my answering EU simply further illustrates your double-standard little world. |
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| #39 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 15:12 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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Amy, did you check out the Mr. T video?
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| #40 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 15:16 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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| prezbucky wrote: | | Amy, did you check out the Mr. T video? |
Are you suggesting that Alan is a mother? |
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| #41 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 15:29 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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that's better. Yea! hehe
(That reminds me: how do you spell the exclamation that rhymes with "May" -- yea/yeah/yay? I'm assuming it isn't "yeah"... so would it be correctly spelled "yea" or "yay"? Danke in advance.)
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| #42 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 15:43 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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For me, the meanings of yes, yup and yeah are synonymous. But yeah does not rhyme with may.
I've also seen "yep".
I would interpret "yea" and "yay" as being synonymous with "hooray" or "hurrah".
I might even use an enthusiastic-sounding "yee hah" synonymously. |
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| #43 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 15:52 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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Yeah... I've just always wondered how it'd be spelled -- that monosyllabic cheer that rhymes with "May".
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| #44 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 20:36 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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Hi Tom
Of course, there is also the more formal or old-fashioned use of yea/yay to indicate an affirmative answer, as in "the yea and nay votes"... |
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| #45 (permalink) Fri May 25, 2007 21:12 pm Recommend with or without 'to' |
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aye aye, mum
hehe
(I often notice British movie characters referring to females as "mum". I did NOT mean "mother"!!!!)
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