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yosevuk · Post by **yosevuk** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:53 pm

"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."

b.k. barunt · Post by **b.k. barunt** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:56 pm

Are we really this desperate for new threads?

Rahm Es Hestos · Post by **Rahm Es Hestos** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:58 pm

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:

ClessAlvein · Post by **ClessAlvein** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:47 pm

Actually... it should be "these damn dice," or "this damn die."

joeyjordison · Post by **joeyjordison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:53 pm

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.

wacicha · Post by **wacicha** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:18 pm

shoot I thought this topic was trying to tell me what you wanted me to do, LOL

boberz · Post by **boberz** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:08 pm

he he this is made for spam (im not joining in :roll:

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Hologram · Post by **Hologram** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:07 pm

b.k. barunt wrote:Are we really this desperate for new threads?

Appearantly we are.

keiths31 · Post by **keiths31** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:13 pm

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

yosevuk · Post by **yosevuk** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:14 am

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?

yosevuk · Post by **yosevuk** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:15 am

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.

MOBAJOBG · Post by **MOBAJOBG** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:19 am

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.

RobinJ · Post by **RobinJ** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:22 am

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.

yowzer14 · Post by **yowzer14** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:26 am

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

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

Nous-irons · Post by **Nous-irons** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:03 am

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

AAFitz · Post by **AAFitz** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:13 am

i want my die to die

but seeing dices typed out is funny

yosevuk · Post by **yosevuk** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:55 pm

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

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.

MeDeFe · Post by **MeDeFe** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:17 pm

"dice" can be singular, too, like "sheep".

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