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Carl from Mike and Molly said:
If you tried a new apple every day it would take you 20 years to taste them all.
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I looked it up....Interesting fact.

2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States. 7,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world. 100 varieties of apples are grown commercially in the United States.


Yea thats a new one on me... I had no idea that many apples existed, hell even 100 seems like a lot of different types of apples.
 
worldwood said:
Interesting fact.

2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States. 7,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world. 100 varieties of apples are grown commercially in the United States.

If you tried a new apple every day it would take you 20 years to taste them all.
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Woah, that's pretty cool.
20 years of apples sounds delicious.
 
Got the last one. You're no idiot, of course. As I said, grammar isn't taught extensively in schools, and I work in a field in which my opponents are very good at disguising grammatical issues.

"The reason is because" and "the reason why" are both redundant, and always grammatically incorrect, even though we use them in that fashion all the time. Maybe I should add answers...
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
I work in a field in which my opponents are very good at disguising grammatical issues.
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I thought knife makers were pretty easy going when it came to grammar :D If they disguised anything it was probably on accident. LMAO


OK OK OK I kid..... Just a joke :D
 
i fund out wut i want to do wit my lif, i want to be a profecional bad exampl! tha'l worck grate! i wouldnt ned to work on speling!
 
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For you grammarians out there, find the (grammatical) errors, if any, in the following sentences, and, for bonus points, correctly identify them (now reproduced with answers in white for those who either want to cheat or otherwise only care enough to peek, but not try):

"In the year 1492, Columbus discovered the New World, even though he was actually trying to reach India."
1492 is a year, so it is therefore redundant to say "In the year 1492."
"Each night, the majority of people goes without a Becker knife."
Despite what you may think, this one is actually grammatically correct as written. The subject is "majority." Since there's only one majority, it is singular, and therefore requires the "goes" instead of "go."
"James Terrio told the student he needed to work on his grammar."
The "he" and "his" both could refer to either James Terrio or to the student. The pronouns are thus ambiguous. If the student is female, we could use "she," but otherwise we need to avoid pronoun use here.
"My internet forum, like many of my friends, requires a small fee per month for proper enjoyment."
This one compares a forum to friends, and implies that the friends require a fee for proper enjoyment. It should read "like THOSE of many of my friends." (Comparison error).
"After rotting in the cellar for weeks, Mountainmist brought up some oranges."
This one is a misplaced modifier. The sentence implies that Mountainmist was rotting in the cellar for weeks, instead of the oranges. The oranges need to go by the modifier. "Mountainmist brought up some oranges that had been rotting in the cellar for weeks."
"The cowboys were standing out in the field, talking, and chewing a toothpick."
Presumably, unless we're watching Brokeback Mountain, the cowboys are chewing MULTIPLE toothpicks. This error is called noun agreement.
"Ethan Becker designs knives and cooks amazing food. The reason is because he's a genius." As fixed by WW.
 
"My internet forum, like many of my friends, requires a small fee per month for proper enjoyment"

Does the word friends in this sentence mean his friends forums? Would a apostrophe be needed on friends? I may need to read up on when to use apostrophes

And i did think it was MM that was rotting in the cellar for weeks LMAO but hey he probably cut himself and the cut was rotting :D

Thanks for that crimson. I learned something and it was fun.
 
I haven't heard some of those phrases since I was in junior high school.

My mother is an English teacher and for a while there she would correct every grammatical error I made, be it spoken or written. That in turn made me a little obsessed with my grammar. Then I got to college and the professor said that stuff didn't matter as long as she could understand what we meant.

I got an "A" in her classes.:D

Now I mostly don't give a shit.
 
Chameleonbear said:
So, I'm beginning to think my brother has a problem, the only thing he EVER talks about is fishing the only thing he thinks about is fishing. It's to the point he would rather go fishing than get laid.
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I don't know, sounds about right to me, haha.
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
Yep, she's going to be a neurologist, hopefully. But my wife's training wasn't relaxed at all. Sounded fairly similar to what we were expecting. The Army training was the easy one, was the point I was making. The one health issue I have that would probably cut me out of basic these days is that I have GERD pretty bad, and often get a gag reflex when I experience significant temperature changes or get my heart rate up too high. I can keep working through it, but who knows. It's getting a bit better after I started a pro-biotic regimen though.


Wonder how long it will take to get to 2000...
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Cool, and Im glad they still made her train :D I hope she becomes a neurologist there is a huge problem with TBI and I think they are just starting to discover some of the issues.
 
Psyop said:
Cool, and Im glad they still made her train :D I hope she becomes a neurologist there is a huge problem with TBI and I think they are just starting to discover some of the issues.
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I agree there is a huge problem with TBI. I suffered from this and it caused Post-traumatic epilepsy in me.

Thankfully i stopped taking all the meds the VA had me on and havent had a seizure in years... But they say i could still have them... Ill keep doing what i been doing on my terms.. Its been working for years and with the meds they had me on i was still having seizures about once a week for a while there.
 
What's the weather like for everyone?
New york State is gracing me with 87 slightly cloudy!
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
For you grammarians out there, find the (grammatical) errors, if any, in the following sentences, and, for bonus points, correctly identify them (now reproduced with answers in white for those who either want to cheat or otherwise only care enough to peek, but not try):

"In the year 1492, Columbus discovered the New World, even though he was actually trying to reach India."
1492 is a year, so it is therefore redundant to say "In the year 1492."
"Each night, the majority of people goes without a Becker knife."
Despite what you may think, this one is actually grammatically correct as written. The subject is "majority." Since there's only one majority, it is singular, and therefore requires the "goes" instead of "go."
"James Terrio told the student he needed to work on his grammar."
The "he" and "his" both could refer to either James Terrio or to the student. The pronouns are thus ambiguous. If the student is female, we could use "she," but otherwise we need to avoid pronoun use here.
"My internet forum, like many of my friends, requires a small fee per month for proper enjoyment."
This one compares a forum to friends, and implies that the friends require a fee for proper enjoyment. It should read "like THOSE of many of my friends." (Comparison error).
"After rotting in the cellar for weeks, Mountainmist brought up some oranges."
This one is a misplaced modifier. The sentence implies that Mountainmist was rotting in the cellar for weeks, instead of the oranges. The oranges need to go by the modifier. "Mountainmist brought up some oranges that had been rotting in the cellar for weeks."
"The cowboys were standing out in the field, talking, and chewing a toothpick."
Presumably, unless we're watching Brokeback Mountain, the cowboys are chewing MULTIPLE toothpicks. This error is called noun agreement.
"Ethan Becker designs knives and cooks amazing food. The reason is because he's a genius." As fixed by WW.
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I actually thought you meant to imply that your friends required a small fee each month. Kind of like "working girls" but, perhaps, less expensive.

I likewise thought that Mountainmist was imprisoned in the basement and only recently released along with some fruit.

The 32.5 hours of overtime last week must be affecting (not "effecting") my cognitive abilities...
 
mountainmist said:
That's got to be the worst photo of her I've ever seen, not that's saying much......:D :thumbup:
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Well I found many better ones but I'm not sure if just body paint is allowed on the forum or not. Plus a lot of the pics are huge so I was looking for a smallish one.


Ray Settanta said:
That last post would have been a good ending.
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I guess we'll just have to keep posting pics of her until someone finally locks the thread.

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