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It's "its" damn it!

@Hadron, remember when I wrote this last week?:

"...if you and I are discussing Freddie Mercury and Queen, I'd say "Queen was one of the best bands ever," while you'd say, "Queen were one..."

Funny timing--look at this Jeopardy! clue from two days ago:

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It's understandable as it comes at the end of 2 of the 3 repetitions of the chorus, just not the very last one.

(And while it does come in the middle, it also comes immediately before the final chorus as well)
 
Not to pick on anything, but I think it deals with how we hear things surrounding ourselves.
No matter how bloody heck we are intelligent, it is how we hear things and in common misusage of what the simple words of having,
something so contradiction of abstracted rules of homonymous of hearing each word, and decided automatically in our subconscious, we accept it own langugages commonly known as English.
 
Milo Willamson said:
Not to pick on anything, but I think it deals with how we hear things surrounding ourselves.
No matter how bloody heck we are intelligent, it is how we hear things and in common misusage of what the simple words of having,
something so contradiction of abstracted rules of homonymous of hearing each word, and decided automatically in our subconscious, we accept it own langugages commonly known as English.
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As usual, I have no idea what you're talking about! :p ;) :D

Let's take the 'could/should/would have' issue. When speaking, "could've" SOUNDS like "could of"--but "could of" makes absolutely no sense. :eek:

What you're actually saying is, "John could have gone home..." Therefore, the only correct way to write the shorter version is, "John could've gone home..." It doesn't matter that it sounds like "of"--if you don't want people to make negative assumptions about your education or intelligence, write it correctly!
 
MoodyBlues said:
As usual, I have no idea what you're talking about! :p ;) :D

Let's take the 'could/should/would have' issue. When speaking, "could've" SOUNDS like "could of"--but "could of" makes absolutely no sense. :eek:

What you're actually saying is, "John could have gone home..." Therefore, the only correct way to write the shorter version is, "John could've gone home..." It doesn't matter that it sounds like "of"--if you don't want people to make negative assumptions about your education or intelligence, write it correctly!
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Ah basically we are taught english words to say one way, yet our brain twisted around too :) Sorry for using such big words on you hahaha :)
 
Milo Willamson said:
Ah basically we are taught english words to say one way, yet our brain twisted around too :)
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Not me. I was taught proper English, including Latin root words, and how to speak AND write correctly. In a million years I would never have thought "should of" was correct. That's because I learned, along with all other English language rules, that "should have" is shortened to "should've"--and no matter how much that may sound like "of," that simply makes no sense.
 
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