History-Repeats wrote:
Make a dumb thread, get dumber results. The law of diminishing returns.
Unfortunately that's all I'm capable of.
Alarming number of kids turning to this site for psychiatric advise or threatening suicide
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miskit_mistake wrote:
Well this turned out well.
Looks like half the folks here need Dr Frasier Crane the psychiatrist and the other need Kelsey Grammer nazi. Two in one.
The only thing missing now is Eric Cartman.
Oh, at first I thought you were talking about Dr. Crane from the Batman comics, ah heh.
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Optimissed wrote:
An owl, to Christine, is a wol.
I mean, you say owl like “ow-wool”, so saying “wol” (pronounced “wool”, I presume?) makes a bit of sense.
No, not wool, woll. A woll gews 'oot.
I'm only just learning to talk like that ("proper"), after 35 years. I can do it a bit, either for a laugh or to seem a bit normal to the natives, so they don't try to put me in a cooking pot if they've run out of pies or curry and chips. It's really quite difficult to get the hang of the way they speak here. I can come off like an authentic Geordie, Scouser, Londoner or from the West Country (Bristol way) but Lancastrian dialects and accents are something else.
History-Repeats wrote:
Considering our heritage it's a wonder Americans can speak at all. Brits. heh.
Half of Lancashire populated the USA. When Christine joined that My Heritage website, where you send a DNA sample in and they tell you who you're related to, she found she has hundreds of American relatives, mainly around Utah but all over the place too. She also found that she has cousins in this country she didn't know about and the only possible explanation is that her grandfather .... er .... liked women and owned a bicycle. I didn't do it (the DNA testing that is) but our son did and from the difference between her and him, it's obvious that I have a lot of Scottish and Scandinavian blood. I always knew there was a lot of Viking. It's coming full circle because my son's wife is expecting and she's a Svenska Finn, which will mean she's mainly Swedish. But he's on this site so I better not say too much. Except she's very nice.
MelvinGarvey wrote:
Well'o'well, advice in French (conseil) can absolutely be plural. As in: "I've been hearing all sorts of advices regarding how to fix my car and..." I do doubt strongly it can't be plural in English.
Gross faults can't be covered by the lame accusation "grammar nazi".
Replacing a noun by a verb, is simply ridiculous and makes no sense at all.
"I hired a cooking for my restaurant" is not just a simple grammar fault.
Besides, no wonder the overall level of knowledge is going down, when correcting faults in language is now labelled "the work of a nazi". This is what you want, this is what you get: a poopy world that is not about to improve.
Well spoken. 
I never knew why so many people say they "asked for advices" or "they would like an advice". It can't be plural in English, because it's sort of abstract. That is, anyone who needs advice will accept whatever advice they're lucky enough to get, so that it can't be quantified. Something that can't be measured in that sense can only be singular. Like, if you ask someone for love, you don't ask for several "loves". Love, hate, help, admiration, sympathy are all unquantifiable. You don't give someone sympathy and tell them that today they're getting three sympathies. So advice is like that. It can't be measured, so it can't be plural.
And I would say that if something can't be quantified, then it's subjective and more like a subjective feeling. This is interesting & I feel I've learned something today, from you nice people.
Ah but I'm ony wrong according to your subjective understanding.
Apr 4, 2022
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Wonder if 5 days from now, after it's had a few 100 posts, and people have moved on to something inane like waffles, some mod will wander in and lock it for talking about suicide.
Apr 4, 2022
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MelvinGarvey wrote:
And advices can be counted. "He gave me three advices about baking, and it improved my baking skills big time!"
I've never heard the word advice used in that way.
Apr 4, 2022
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llama51 wrote:
Wonder if 5 days from now, after it's had a few 100 posts, and people have moved on to something inane like waffles, some mod will wander in and lock it for talking about suicide.
I was thinking the same lol
Apr 4, 2022
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Better late than never. Besides @justbefair has probably got my number since the zelensky affair.
But then, when I was learning English grammar, a good English teacher would have said something similar to what I've been trying to say, and I would have nodded sagely and fixed it as "something that's correct". And that would be irrespective of the fact that apparently, people from other countries, whose native languages are different from ours, do not speak the same way. And, therefore, perhaps they don't think in quite the same way either. And that could be the reason why, occasionally, nations go to war with each other. Because something happens that amplifies small differences between people, apparently into an irresolvable difference between them. And then our respective leaders, being politicians and therefore not all that bright, start saying that no, we won't be giving any ground and we'll fight you. Instead of just giving Lilliput to the Bigendians, like any normal, sane and intelligent leader would have done. Our Queen Elizabeth I would have. She was highly intelligent.
Apr 4, 2022
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MelvinGarvey wrote:
"You'd better take cover since it's going to rain", is what? Not "an advice"?
Yeah, I haven't heard "an advice." For example if I got out of my car, and someone said "that's a no parking zone, your car might be towed" I would say "that person gave me advice."
MelvinGarvey wrote:
llama51 a écrit :
MelvinGarvey wrote:
And advices can be counted. "He gave me three advices about baking, and it improved my baking skills big time!"
I've never heard the word advice used in that way.
Well, in French anyway, it can totally be said or written so. Now, if you have to replace advice by "piece of advice" in English, that's sure not my problem: I'm French, and think French, and believe it or not, as what I say makes sense, it is usually understood.
There's no need. "Some advice" is usually the way it's said here in the UK.
Optimissed wrote:
But then, when I was learning English grammar, a good English teacher would have said something similar to what I've been trying to say, and I would have nodded sagely and fixed it as "something that's correct". And that would be irrespective of the fact that apparently, people from other countries, whose native languages are different from ours, do not speak the same way. And, therefore, perhaps they don't think in quite the same way either. And that could be the reason why, occasionally, nations go to war with each other. Because something happens that amplifies small differences between people, apparently into an irresolvable difference between them. And then our respective leaders, being politicians and therefore not all that bright, start saying that no, we won't be giving any ground and we'll fight you. Instead of just giving Lilliput (Crimea) to the Bigendians (Russians), like any normal, sane and intelligent leader would have done. Our Queen Elizabeth I would have. She was highly intelligent.
Too late now.
*Snip* Because when you are at your saddest moment and most in need of help....he/she will ruin you over for its own perverted pleasure. *Snip*
when a fellow bunny calls you out for being toxic, it must be true. I do poke a lot and sometimes it will hurt. No way of knowing who's who and who's at their saddest. So I guess based on data available and often I guess wrong.
I do take perverted pleasure in my own miseries as well. For me the only way forward is not to take life too seriously.