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re: OK, Grammar Nazis. Need your help
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:02 pm to mizzoukills
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:02 pm to mizzoukills
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Technically "New Year Resolutions" is correct,
No it isn't. Cite one source that says that.
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Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:03 pm to Displaced
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What is your New Year is Resolution?
Is that the only other thing it can mean? Your credibility actually is disappearing.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:03 pm to LNCHBOX
no, this is why these threads go on forever. you, much like Darth, can never be wrong.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:04 pm to Displaced
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you, much like Darth, can never be wrong.
Says the jackass that said I was right and is now arguing with me.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:06 pm to Displaced
quote:this although the caps are not fully accurate. It's not a proper noun. There is no possession. People say New Year's like they say Walmarts. There is no s on the end. The s and the caps are both forms of overcompensating, much like when people say "..for you and I."
New Year Resolutions
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:06 pm to LNCHBOX
and you said i was right too. yours is right in modern day acceptability, mine is right technically.
no need to get mad.
no need to get mad.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:07 pm to arcalades
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People say New Year's like they say Walmarts
Not the same at all.
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The s and the caps are both forms of overcompensating
No it isn't. It's because the "day" is understood.Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:08 pm to Displaced
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and you said i was right too
I said technically grammatically correct. It is the wrong choice of the two.
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yours is right in modern day acceptability, mine is right technically.
Wrong. Mine is technically right just as yours is.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:09 pm to arcalades
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this although the caps are not fully accurate
i was capitalizing for effect, lol
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:09 pm to LNCHBOX
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:10 pm to Displaced
Just out of curiosity, would you compare yourself to Darth as well?
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:12 pm to LNCHBOX
maybe to an extent, but i don't tend to get as angry.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:13 pm to Displaced
Well, no one melts like Darth I can only imagine he does it on purpose. There is no way he doesn't know exactly what he's doing... right?
I can only imagine he does it on purpose. There is no way he doesn't know exactly what he's doing... right?Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:14 pm to LNCHBOX
i don't think i would ever divulge as much personal information about myself as he does. especially concerning a topic as polarizing as his hobbies.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:20 pm to Displaced
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:21 pm to OlGrandad
I'm just a spectator now
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:33 pm to MoreOrLes
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That would mean that the New Year would posses the resolutions
right--it's idiomatic language. just like saying "tomorrow's challenges...."
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:42 pm to LNCHBOX
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New Year resolution(nju? j?? ?r?z?'lu???n) or New Year's resolution Definitions noun a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead ? "My New Year's resolution this year is to spend less time playing Solitaire on the computer.", "I stopped making New Year resolutions when I realized that I never kept any of them.", "She made a New Year's resolution to get fit."
While either seems to be used, there is a tendency for people to use the 's version to show possession. The great thing about this thread is that it shows how polarizing opinions become.
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:52 pm to Karnac
New Year resolution with new year acting as an adjective describing the type of resolution. As stated, the new year does not possess the resolution.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 2:07 pm to Bonjourno
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As stated, the new year does not possess the resolution.
I'll disagree. The resolutions are assigned to/tied to (possessed by?) THIS New Year (or New Year's Day, I suppose.)
You don't make a resolution to lose weight every year. I mean - you do, because resolutions are dumb and people are lazy... but if you are making a resolution on January 1,2015 to lose weight - that resolution is this year's. Next year's might be to stop smoking. "I'm going to lose weight" is THIS year's resolution.
#TEAMAPOSTROPHE
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