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Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they?

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Old 2007-06-16, 11:57
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Now i'm sure this will get a Vietnam forest-worth of flames, but I was just thinking- 'Games People Play' is grammatically incorrect. It should be 'Games That People Play', or possibly 'The Games That People Play'. Losing 'that' is an Americanism. If you think about it, it doesn't really make any sense without 'that'.

You can only understand the meaning from a sort of structure left by the correct sentence.
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Old 2007-06-16, 12:32
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Being the authority on grammar here at totse, allow me to say that "Games People Play" is perfectly fine.

See: adjective clause, relative pronoun (formal/informal)
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/...ctive%20clause
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Old 2007-06-16, 12:42
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Who cares? Does it matter?
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Old 2007-06-16, 12:44
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Who cares? Does it matter?
I care, and grammar always matters.
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Old 2007-06-16, 13:59
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I care, and grammar always matters.
Doen com in, im not warin eny pantz..


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Old 2007-06-16, 16:22
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Losing 'that' is an Americanism. If you think about it, it doesn't really make any sense without 'that'.
It's Newspeak.
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Old 2007-06-16, 16:51
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If you have bad grammar, you will fail at life.
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Old 2007-06-16, 17:35
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Oh, dear. We can't have Americanisms. Best revert it to the Queen's English.

"Games Wot Blokes Play Wiv, Yeah?"
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Old 2007-06-16, 17:48
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We all know that between frags, if you want to say something without a mic and without a bind key...Grammar isn't existant.

For example...

lol pwned headshot again lol lol. lol.
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I care, and grammar always matters.
0 =/= o.
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Old 2007-06-18, 19:54
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Old 2007-06-19, 00:37
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I'm..going to move this. Somewhere.
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Old 2007-06-25, 21:52
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Its an acronym anyways so there could be a that in there
GPP=Games That People Play
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Old 2007-06-26, 00:17
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doubleplusgood!
Glad to see someone understood it.
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assorted crap~~~~~~~~~~
Fuck yeah! USA, bitch!
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!
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Old 2007-06-27, 06:12
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Who cares? Does it matter?
Give some well deserved respect to your language.
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Old 2007-07-08, 02:04
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Did you ever consider that "Games People Play" is a title of a song and Jeff could have named the forum that as a tribute rather than caring about being grammatically correct?
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Old 2007-07-09, 01:11
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Keep on topic or dont post here.
I have warned you before. Last warning now, and when I infract you I'm sure you'll go running off to zok whining about how 'unfair' it is.
So I tell you now, just dont.fucking.bother.

I've warned you several times.
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