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Die

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:53 pm
by yosevuk
"Die" is singular. "Dice" is plural. Is that common knowledge? It doesn't seem like that to me, but then people don't talk about a single "die" that often.

I mean, under what circumstances would you hear someone complaining about how one die is not living up to the standard of their other TWO dice :)

It is much more likely to hear someone saying something like "you got some lucky dices, uh blue?" or "Grrr.. the dices are killing me this round."

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:56 pm
by b.k. barunt
Are we really this desperate for new threads?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:58 pm
by Rahm Es Hestos
lol i find this post funny because u obviously have poor mastery of the english language.....u dont make a comment such as "the dices are killing me" because it is incorrect. A correct coment would actually be something like "these damn die". I may be wrong but im guessing english isnt ur first language?


...And on a side note i could go into why the two above comments are correct/incorrect but as a student i'd rather kill myself then put the lessons of my english teacher to practical use :wink:

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:47 pm
by ClessAlvein
Actually... it should be "these damn dice," or "this damn die."

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:53 pm
by joeyjordison
i think he was saying that people are unlikely to say things properly and gave examples of wat people say. the 2 sentences were incorrect deliberately hence the highlighting in red and the highlighting in green is correct

and b.k. u r totally rite. i didn't think we were this desperate.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:18 pm
by wacicha
shoot I thought this topic was trying to tell me what you wanted me to do, LOL

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:08 pm
by boberz
he he this is made for spam (im not joining in :roll: )

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:07 pm
by Hologram
b.k. barunt wrote:Are we really this desperate for new threads?
Appearantly we are.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:13 pm
by keiths31
You are one of the most anal people I know. There really has to be something better to talk about...isn't there?

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:14 am
by yosevuk
Rahm Es Hestos wrote:lol i find this post funny because u obviously have poor mastery of the english language.....u dont make a comment such as "the dices are killing me" because it is incorrect. A correct coment would actually be something like "these damn die". I may be wrong but im guessing english isnt ur first language?

:D

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:15 am
by yosevuk
keiths31 wrote:You are one of the most anal people I know. There really has to be something better to talk about...isn't there?


I don't know you either.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:19 am
by MOBAJOBG
yosevuk wrote:
keiths31 wrote:You are one of the most anal people I know. There really has to be something better to talk about...isn't there?


I don't know you either.

Hi, yosevuk! I certainly missed playing doubles freestyle games with you.
By the way, I'm sure keiths31 was talking about and referring to Hologram.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:22 am
by RobinJ
wacicha wrote:shoot I thought this topic was trying to tell me what you wanted me to do, LOL


Not, the only one - I thought this could be really interesting... not something about the grammatical errors of CCers.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:26 am
by yowzer14
Rahm Es Hestos wrote:lol i find this post funny because u obviously have poor mastery of the english language.....u dont make a comment such as "the dices are killing me" because it is incorrect. A correct coment would actually be something like "these damn die". I may be wrong but im guessing english isnt ur first language?


...And on a side note i could go into why the two above comments are correct/incorrect but as a student i'd rather kill myself then put the lessons of my english teacher to practical use :wink:


I think the stooges said it best "You are speaking incorrectly, you are moidering the King's English"

Re: Die

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:03 am
by Nous-irons
yosevuk wrote:"Die" is singular. "Dice" is plural. Is that common knowledge? It doesn't seem like that to me, but then people don't talk about a single "die" that often.

I mean, under what circumstances would you hear someone complaining about how one die is not living up to the standard of their other TWO dice :)

It is much more likely to hear someone saying something like "you got some lucky dices, uh blue?" or "Grrr.. the dices are killing me this round."


ni shuo shi mo

PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:13 am
by AAFitz
i want my die to die

but seeing dices typed out is funny

PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:55 pm
by yosevuk
AAFitz wrote:i want my die to die

but seeing dices typed out is funny


I'm sure people want this thread to die.



I can't help liking grammar though :twisted:
...and homonyms :D

MOBAJOBG wrote:
yosevuk wrote:
keiths31 wrote:You are one of the most anal people I know. There really has to be something better to talk about...isn't there?


I don't know you either.

Hi, yosevuk! I certainly missed playing doubles freestyle games with you.
By the way, I'm sure keiths31 was talking about and referring to Hologram.


Hey MOBAJOBG, haven't played any games with you for a while. I see you're a major now. Congrats, and we'll have to play again sometime.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:17 pm
by MeDeFe
"dice" can be singular, too, like "sheep".