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[darth_lopez]

it IS a Prohpecy of the coming of the Pony. Clearly We bronies obviosly went back intime on december 21st and wrote that sign to make a funny joke of it. Why just that sign idk...what i do know is that i could not resist joking about the 12/21/2012 thing xD

[Arcadian Legend]

FINALLY. FINALLY someone says it as the 21st instead of the 21th. I may not go mad by the end of the day after all.

[Arcadian Legend]

Lathrim wrote...

Arcadian Legend wrote...

FINALLY. FINALLY someone says it as the 21st instead of the 21th. I may not go mad by the end of the day after all.

Why does it bother you so much, anyway?

I honestly don't know. It just does.

[darth_lopez]

Lathrim wrote...

Arcadian Legend wrote...

FINALLY. FINALLY someone says it as the 21st instead of the 21th. I may not go mad by the end of the day after all.

Why does it bother you so much, anyway?

Probably because that particular formation is ungrammatical and not englishy xD all numerals ending in 1 in at least American english are supposed to take the -st/-first form (41st forty-first so on) while numerals ending in 2 and 3 follow suit wiht the unique -nd/-second and -rd/-third forms. Who for the love all things English is saying 21th? Twenty-Oneth Is Not a Number!

Edit: I mean there are literally no exclusions to this rule I don't know how anyone would naturally produce that their first thought should be 21st Not 21th >< It's just so wrong  so very very wrong T-T

Edit: Edit: People are exposed to this constantly from birth How how how how how how how does someone say that?! Why? T-T

edit:edit:edit: Maybe it's marignally more acceptable with "On the twenty-oneth day of *event/month name here*"  but it's not english proper. Damn it. Now i have to go look at BYU's COCA and the BNC again @.@

Edit:Edit:edit:edit: Ok after quickly checking out both corpora We can Safely say That it does not occur in brittish english and only occurs a very very very very very very very very very miniscule amount of times in American English. So It is most likely Not Real English, probably a random error produced occasionally. The other form -st occurs in both corpora thousands of times more.

Modifié par darth_lopez, 20 décembre 2012 - 02:48 .

[Volus Warlord]

Hey guys guess what? The 21th is tomorrow!

[Volus Warlord]

Lathrim wrote...

Volus Warlord wrote...

Hey guys guess what? The 21th is tomorrow!

Really? I thought it was the 21nd. 

Now that I think of it, maybe it's the 21rn. I don't know why though.

[Arcadian Legend]

I don't know what you guys are talking about, it's clearly the 21rd.

[darth_lopez]

 No you don't understand that's a massive grammatical error on  natural level. Does my typing look much like a care for superficial rules? This is literally an ommision of natural english rules (the ones that exist and work with out going to school to learn "grammar"). The question is why? the answer probably a singular/few families mispronunciation over the years or the speaker is not natively an english speaker. Edit: Maybe also some dialect i have not seen yet

No native speaker should have naturally produced that without outside influence, maybe some process of analogy to the rest of the paradigm that takes the -th ending But that would have to be litterally 8 out of 450 million possible occurences (the COCA is 450 mil large, and it only has a frequency of 8 which is a relative pmw (occurences per million words) of 0.0.177778 which is significantly difference from the ~5000 occurences of st with a ~relative~ pmw of 11.11. Believe it or not i'm making a scientific statement about a fact of english here. I study these things  for i am a linguist. (aka the people english teachers/professors ignore when their told they're doing it wrong for like the past 200 years:unsure:).

Most grammatical rules that people try to correct on the internet aren't grammar errors and aren't really worth note but this however is again a violation of natural english (and subsequently all things holy) It would be interesting though if one day it was widespread. But given the disparity in usage, the 0 occurences in Brittish English (at least as of 1992) and the pmw of 0.0177778 in english it likely will not catch. 


Also Fun fact for the day that most english people definately don't know: English is one of the few languages that posses a "th" sound like in "the,this,that etc..." we're one of 46 documented languages to possess the sound globally last i checked. 

Anywho putting actual sciency things aside for a moment to post ponies: 

Modifié par darth_lopez, 20 décembre 2012 - 03:21 .

[darth_lopez]

Lathrim wrote...

darth_lopez wrote...
(aka the people english teachers/professors ignore when their...).

They're.

darth_lopez wrote...
(...they're doing it wrong for like the past 200 years[smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/unsure.png[/smilie]). 

They've been.

spelling is superficial you contexturally knew which of the three "there"'s i intended and interpreted correctly (obviously from your correction), and no it's not past perfect since it was intended to be a quote i forgot the '' bits though, adding them fixes the issue you site= "they're doing it wrong". A bigger error than the first error you point out but again superficial since it could easily be fixed by ""'s. There was a larger tense error that you did miss with "they're told" though. In hindsight that Should've been "they've been" or "we've told them" for proper reading of the sentence. There is a difference between being a grammar **** and saying something should linguistically not be occurring. One is science the other is just being douhcey. What you and i just did to eachother here is being a grammar **** the former was an Educated Opinion on a wierd occurence and why it might bother Arcadian Legend supported by statistics from  two prominent corpora. 

Anywho other superficial things include prominently thought of rules in writing like "don't split infinitives" which is intrinsically false with regard to english and was an attempt to make english conform to latin formations which is ethically wrong. Similarly "don't end sentences with prepositions" and a good deal of other things taught in grammar schools. 

Anywho really if you'd like to discuss it more i have a PM box and if there's one thing i love it's my major. General rule of thumb though any error that can be attributed to punctuation or spelling is superficial and does not matter in the larger context of the language since both of those things are man made and largely insubstantial to the understanding of basic human speech. Often times only of note or import in Academic/Official papers. You can go back and look through older posts of mine i don't nit pick these things often But this is an extremely odd and relatively interesting deviation from the standard paradigm regarding numbers.

[Arcadian Legend]

Yep. Back to ponies.

[darth_lopez]

Ivandra Ceruden wrote...

It boggles my mind how people keep on spelling 'they're' as 'their' or 'there'. I've seen these mistakes being made by people whose mother tongue is English, even!

it's because in their head they all sound the same and it's harder for people to visualize sounds as symbols than it is for them to simply use the same phonological form with contextually different meanings.


anywho trying to get back on topic: Has anyone found an ponyfied origin icon? I found steam firefox, safari, and a horde of other things. But i can't find that one. So for now i just used an image of a "I just don't know what went wrong" Derpy. 

Edit: should not type when i am sleepy letters keep ending up in all sorts of places.

Modifié par darth_lopez, 20 décembre 2012 - 03:46 .

[darth_lopez]

Lathrim wrote...

@lopez
I wasn't really serious about it. Other people's grammar are their own problem, and I won't correct them unless I make it clear I'm joking, and I was hoping the ":P" would have been enough to portray that. But anyway, 

Arcadian Legend wrote...

Yep. Back to ponies.

This. 

Then why are you not answering origin pony question

Edit: stop posting at the same time i do or at least while i'm typing xD it makes it hard to know what's going on 
I was hoping one that' snot the main six like the others. Steam Pony is best pony btw 

Modifié par darth_lopez, 20 décembre 2012 - 03:49 .

[darth_lopez]

New post to avoid Confusion @.@ due to my horrible timing.

Like this guy/gal i use it on all my computers, along with the chrome pony. I just can't seem to find an original for origin.

Modifié par darth_lopez, 20 décembre 2012 - 03:51 .

[darth_lopez]

Discord could work. I hadn't thought of that one.

edit: Also I found a way to get Origin games working with the steam overlay if anyone needs this let me know, i found it thanks to the internet. Steam also had an update recently that may well fix this issue too. Just a heads up for those of us who like linking everything into steam

Modifié par darth_lopez, 20 décembre 2012 - 03:59 .

[darth_lopez]

Yup. It also allows you to do some creative renaming... >.>
also this
edit: there was a funny fluttershy here but it no worky





^this is my favorite


The best cross over

Modifié par darth_lopez, 20 décembre 2012 - 04:15 .