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172.70.90.221 at 21:12, 20 November 2023

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162.158.154.202: /* a vs an with h */ new section

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‎a vs an with h: new section

Youforgotthisthing at 18:01, 28 March 2021

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141.101.96.40 at 20:00, 5 March 2021

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172.68.46.41 at 05:59, 12 May 2018

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108.162.237.137: Explained the different functions of every and all to explain the syntax surrounding everybody/everyone.

2016-04-17T12:57:39Z

Explained the different functions of every and all to explain the syntax surrounding everybody/everyone.

International Space Station at 02:35, 1 February 2016

2016-02-01T02:35:07Z

Markhurd: "character is" or "characters are"

2014-10-06T01:07:56Z

"character is" or "characters are"

Diszy at 17:49, 5 October 2014

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108.162.250.218 at 08:12, 5 October 2014

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 :Nope; the grammatical usage of the pronoun is separate from the noun it refers to. If you saw someone whose gender you don't know wearing blue, would you say "that person are wearing blue"? There's no LGBT conspiracy to destroy the English language -- the people trying to make you refer to them by fae/fem pronouns instead of they/them are a very small minority. --[[User:Youforgotthisthing|Youforgotthisthing]] ([[User talk:Youforgotthisthing|talk]]) 18:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
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+my mother once pointed out to me that the characters speak weirdly in star trek. They consistently use "an h..", even if they don't have an accent that would omit the h sound. I think the title text definitely refers to this, it's too specific not to {{unsigned ip|162.158.154.202|18:02, 20 November 2023}}

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	With the increasing prevalence of the use of singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun on the internet and the use of prural forms together with it ("they are" used to refer to a single person of an unknown or nonbinary gender), referring to the android as "Data are" might be atually becoming somewhat correct... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.96.40\|141.101.96.40]] 20:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)		With the increasing prevalence of the use of singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun on the internet and the use of prural forms together with it ("they are" used to refer to a single person of an unknown or nonbinary gender), referring to the android as "Data are" might be atually becoming somewhat correct... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.96.40\|141.101.96.40]] 20:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
	:Nope; the grammatical usage of the pronoun is separate from the noun it refers to. If you saw someone whose gender you don't know wearing blue, would you say "that person are wearing blue"? There's no LGBT conspiracy to destroy the English language -- the people trying to make you refer to them by fae/fem pronouns instead of they/them are a very small minority. --[[User:Youforgotthisthing\|Youforgotthisthing]] ([[User talk:Youforgotthisthing\|talk]]) 18:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)		:Nope; the grammatical usage of the pronoun is separate from the noun it refers to. If you saw someone whose gender you don't know wearing blue, would you say "that person are wearing blue"? There's no LGBT conspiracy to destroy the English language -- the people trying to make you refer to them by fae/fem pronouns instead of they/them are a very small minority. --[[User:Youforgotthisthing\|Youforgotthisthing]] ([[User talk:Youforgotthisthing\|talk]]) 18:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
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		+	my mother once pointed out to me that the characters speak weirdly in star trek. They consistently use "an h..", even if they don't have an accent that would omit the h sound. I think the title text definitely refers to this, it's too specific not to

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	With the increasing prevalence of the use of singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun on the internet and the use of prural forms together with it ("they are" used to refer to a single person of an unknown or nonbinary gender), referring to the android as "Data are" might be atually becoming somewhat correct... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.96.40\|141.101.96.40]] 20:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)		With the increasing prevalence of the use of singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun on the internet and the use of prural forms together with it ("they are" used to refer to a single person of an unknown or nonbinary gender), referring to the android as "Data are" might be atually becoming somewhat correct... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.96.40\|141.101.96.40]] 20:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
		+	:Nope; the grammatical usage of the pronoun is separate from the noun it refers to. If you saw someone whose gender you don't know wearing blue, would you say "that person are wearing blue"? There's no LGBT conspiracy to destroy the English language -- the people trying to make you refer to them by fae/fem pronouns instead of they/them are a very small minority. --[[User:Youforgotthisthing\|Youforgotthisthing]] ([[User talk:Youforgotthisthing\|talk]]) 18:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

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	Is it just me, or does "ypercorrection" not make any sense as a pronounciation? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.46.41\|172.68.46.41]] 05:59, 12 May 2018 (UTC)		Is it just me, or does "ypercorrection" not make any sense as a pronounciation? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.46.41\|172.68.46.41]] 05:59, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
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		+	With the increasing prevalence of the use of singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun on the internet and the use of prural forms together with it ("they are" used to refer to a single person of an unknown or nonbinary gender), referring to the android as "Data are" might be atually becoming somewhat correct... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.96.40\|141.101.96.40]] 20:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

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	:Compare "every person is" to "all people are." ''Every'' and ''all'' are both determiners, but they belong to different subclasses. ''Every'' enumerates over a group or class, as it is a distributive determiner like ''each'', ''either'', and ''neither''. ''All'' indicates a quantity, as it is a quantifier like ''both'', ''enough'', and ''some''. In "every person is X," ''every'' applies the statement to each element in the entire class to which ''person'' belongs (people); for each person in all people, the person is X. In "all people are X," ''all'' gives a size (the entire class) to the group or class that is the subject (people). 'Everybody' and 'everyone' evolved from "every body" and "every one," so the syntax used for the two-word form got applied to the pronouns. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.137\|108.162.237.137]] 12:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)		:Compare "every person is" to "all people are." ''Every'' and ''all'' are both determiners, but they belong to different subclasses. ''Every'' enumerates over a group or class, as it is a distributive determiner like ''each'', ''either'', and ''neither''. ''All'' indicates a quantity, as it is a quantifier like ''both'', ''enough'', and ''some''. In "every person is X," ''every'' applies the statement to each element in the entire class to which ''person'' belongs (people); for each person in all people, the person is X. In "all people are X," ''all'' gives a size (the entire class) to the group or class that is the subject (people). 'Everybody' and 'everyone' evolved from "every body" and "every one," so the syntax used for the two-word form got applied to the pronouns. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.137\|108.162.237.137]] 12:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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		+	Is it just me, or does "ypercorrection" not make any sense as a pronounciation? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.46.41\|172.68.46.41]] 05:59, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

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	Yet nobody complains about "everybody/everyone is" [[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 02:35, 1 February 2016 (UTC)		Yet nobody complains about "everybody/everyone is" [[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 02:35, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
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		+	:Compare "every person is" to "all people are." ''Every'' and ''all'' are both determiners, but they belong to different subclasses. ''Every'' enumerates over a group or class, as it is a distributive determiner like ''each'', ''either'', and ''neither''. ''All'' indicates a quantity, as it is a quantifier like ''both'', ''enough'', and ''some''. In "every person is X," ''every'' applies the statement to each element in the entire class to which ''person'' belongs (people); for each person in all people, the person is X. In "all people are X," ''all'' gives a size (the entire class) to the group or class that is the subject (people). 'Everybody' and 'everyone' evolved from "every body" and "every one," so the syntax used for the two-word form got applied to the pronouns. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.137\|108.162.237.137]] 12:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

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	Another thing to annoy grammar pedants is that it should always be "character is" or "characters are": consider a clearly plural character: "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' characters are The Tribbles" versus "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' character is The Tribbles" and cf the equivalent to the comic: "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' character are The Tribbles". IMHO each of my quoted examples are more likely to be viewed correct than the next. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 01:07, 6 October 2014 (UTC)		Another thing to annoy grammar pedants is that it should always be "character is" or "characters are": consider a clearly plural character: "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' characters are The Tribbles" versus "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' character is The Tribbles" and cf the equivalent to the comic: "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' character are The Tribbles". IMHO each of my quoted examples are more likely to be viewed correct than the next. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 01:07, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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		+	Yet nobody complains about "everybody/everyone is" [[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 02:35, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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	Would it be worthwhile emphasizing that "hypercorrection" is a specialist term, employed by those studying language, grammar, and its development over time/history. Some might think that the term is merely descriptive, something along the lines of "hyper/taking-to-the-max tendencies to do stuff correctly". Rather, a definition would be something like "a non-standard usage that results from over application of a perceived grammatical rule" [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.218\|108.162.250.218]] 08:12, 5 October 2014 (UTC)		Would it be worthwhile emphasizing that "hypercorrection" is a specialist term, employed by those studying language, grammar, and its development over time/history. Some might think that the term is merely descriptive, something along the lines of "hyper/taking-to-the-max tendencies to do stuff correctly". Rather, a definition would be something like "a non-standard usage that results from over application of a perceived grammatical rule" [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.218\|108.162.250.218]] 08:12, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
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		+	Another thing to annoy grammar pedants is that it should always be "character is" or "characters are": consider a clearly plural character: "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' characters are The Tribbles" versus "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' character is The Tribbles" and cf the equivalent to the comic: "..., the most popular ''Star Trek'' character are The Tribbles". IMHO each of my quoted examples are more likely to be viewed correct than the next. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 01:07, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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 :Agreed. The consonant 'h' sound is not always preceded by "a". Is it quite common for other words starting with consonant 'h' to be preceded by "an". One is example is "An historic occasion". [[User:MrBigDog2U|MrBigDog2U]] ([[User talk:MrBigDog2U|talk]]) 14:28, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 ::"Hotel" (yes, with the French connection) is the classic test, IME, for dropped or kept haiches (or 'aiches), with the middle-classes tending towards using "a hotel" whilst both the lower ''and'' upper classes gravitate towards "an 'otel" (for different reasons, with different empheses).  Of course, if the person has an affectation (or "haffectation") "an hotel" (or, more like, "ane hotel") or even "han 'otel" can arise, to frankly ridiculous degrees. But this is just personal observation, and may not survive even inter-regional train travel, never mind transatlantic relocation... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.247|141.101.98.247]] 16:11, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 I always took "fora" to be tongue-in-cheek mockery of pedantry rather than a frank insistence on proper grammar [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 13:22, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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	I always took "fora" to be tongue-in-cheek mockery of pedantry rather than a frank insistence on proper grammar [[User:Djbrasier\|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier\|talk]]) 13:22, 4 October 2014 (UTC)		I always took "fora" to be tongue-in-cheek mockery of pedantry rather than a frank insistence on proper grammar [[User:Djbrasier\|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier\|talk]]) 13:22, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
	:You were lucky that accusative and nominative in second declension neuter have matching endings, otherwise pedants would prey on "I always took fora" part of your comment :) Either way, please consider giving forīs a benefit of the doubt. Without forōrum and their memorable name, xkcd wouldn't be the same :) [[User:Nyq\|Nyq]] ([[User talk:Nyq\|talk]]) 14:12, 4 October 2014 (UTC)		:You were lucky that accusative and nominative in second declension neuter have matching endings, otherwise pedants would prey on "I always took fora" part of your comment :) Either way, please consider giving forīs a benefit of the doubt. Without forōrum and their memorable name, xkcd wouldn't be the same :) [[User:Nyq\|Nyq]] ([[User talk:Nyq\|talk]]) 14:12, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
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		+	Would it be worthwhile emphasizing that "hypercorrection" is a specialist term, employed by those studying language, grammar, and its development over time/history. Some might think that the term is merely descriptive, something along the lines of "hyper/taking-to-the-max tendencies to do stuff correctly". Rather, a definition would be something like "a non-standard usage that results from over application of a perceived grammatical rule" [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.218\|108.162.250.218]] 08:12, 5 October 2014 (UTC)