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fandom_grammar. Since we don't have any yet, I'm thinking about just collecting up a few common questions so that we can get started. So, can anyone think of a few common grammar/language questions to start us off? (If it's a genuine question you want to ask, leave it at the comm, please. Thanks.)Stuff On My Head
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katilara posted another Brotherhood 2.0 video blog last night and in it Hank discussed keeping life silly by putting stuff on your head. Last night I wore Neville bunny on my head until I went to sleep. Today, um, well, I'm not really going to wear stuff on my head at work, but maybe I'll use pencils to hold up my hair later which will be kind of like stuff in my head and will still be silly.ANYWAY.
I encourage you all to put stuff on your head. Or put stuff on your cat, if you're inclined, but the general theme is stuff on living beings. I think putting a shoe on a bug even counts.
I hope you all will keep me informed of what stuff you put on living beings.
Though you may consider putting stuff only on you or your pets without permission. Like, I don't think my boss would appreciate me suddenly putting a bag on her head unless I asked first*.
*I do not advocate asking your boss if you can put a bag on his or her head . . . unless you are looking for a way to be fired, which, if you are, more stuff on your boss's head to you.
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I should see if people will take pictures of things on their heads. I'll try and re-create the Good Omens/disappointed moose combo this evening. Hmm...
George likes to sit on my head. I love putting stuff on my head. *g*
You guys should start out with, "It's 'canon', not 'cannon', dammit!"
Canon the thing that means an event happened.
Cannon the thing I will use to shoot you across the world when you confuse "cannon" and "canon."
I also would like to see commas addressed. I'm newly hearing terms such as oxford comma. That's using a comma before the second to last thing in a list?
I perused a couple of the grammar rant type comms to see what issues they have that I agree with to suggest. There are the common too/to/two, there/their/they're type grumbles, but one thing that I didn't understand was "the use of between".
The example was "keep this between the three of us". I can't for the life of me think what should be used instead of between. I know it's a matter of two and more-than-two. Maybe you can tell m....oh! It just clicked. "Among", yes? Okay, never mind. *blush*
We'll pretend I only said commas.
I figured those are the common ones, too/to/two and there/their/they're. But I like the idea of the use of between, too.
Anyway, as I was trying to say . . . . .
I've always found the "number of people involved" usage determination interesting. We learned that really early on, maybe in 5th grade or middle school? I know to use -er with two and -est with more than two.
My dad had never heard that rule before, so he learned something too when I came home telling him about what we learned. I am the younger of two children, of two girls. He had always said "youngest daughter" or "oldest daughter", but made certain to be correct from the time I told him that rule. Younger or older daughter. :)
It's the one rule I've always had a slight smug feeling about knowing. It sometimes seems as if it's nearly a secret and only a privileged group is told the real rule. When I hear others say -est instead of -er and I know it's not correct, I don't correct them, but I do feel smart.