Improve your bloody grammar!

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You guys made me look up the Danish way to punctuate in relation to quotes; we use the British model.

The more you know.
 
I usually use those, though Norwegians are apparently suppoused to use angle quotes (« and »).
Meaning that proper air quotes should look like awkward attempts at gang signs according to some guys at university I know.

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Cyborg Eastern European 说:
Here's one that bothers me in every language I'm (not) fluent in: The **** do you do when your question ends in a quote?
If I'm quoting a question I include the question mark within the quotes. If I'm asking a question about the quote, I put the mark behind the quotes. This is the only thing that seems vaguely sensible to me. :razz:
 
I never found my way around the rules of English language. I consider myself very good at English, but I can't learn or understand the rules or the formalities in the English. :/
 
"I literally couldn't get out of bed." heheh.

I hope he spelled moron wrong as a joke, because not all Morans deserve that.
 
Sir Saladin 说:
I hope he spelled moron wrong as a joke, because not all Morans deserve that.
Quite probably referencing this:

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Playing San Andreas Multiplayer RP servers (actively & with passion, at the time) had an immense boost to both my English language as well as to my usage of proper grammar on the internet, I now can't type without it, it's natural and inside of me. typing liek dis iz not wat i ev3R d0...

:grin: Play SA-MP RP, do get into it, you'll learn to type entire sentences in 5 seconds and plus have them gramatically correct 100%.. You'll be amazed at the results of it.
 
Age of Empires 2 was such a game for me. I used to play it with a smarter mate who was a little more proficient until I caught up.
 
I was wondering about if titles like "Game of Thrones", "Lord of The Rings" type name are proper use of English, if they are grammatically correct? To my understanding, both in "Game of Thrones" and "Lord of The Rings", there is actually one throne/ring everyone strive to sit/hold on. So, making throne/ring plural isn't wrong by this logic? Is it just an accepted unproper of grammar or the "s" in these titles are not making the words plural but adds some other meaning to it?
To explain myself more clearly. In the Game of Thrones, there are plural  people wants to sit on the throne, so the throne is should be singular on title. By having many competitors, there has to be that many agendas, basicly games. Therefore the title would be more proper if it was "Games of (the) Throne". This explanation made things worse for me to be understood. I mean, isn't "Throne Games" more correct for that kind of consept? Maybe it is because English isn't my mother language but these kind of naming confuses and doesn't make sence to me.
Is Game of Thrones equals Throne Games? If so, does it mean the "s" in the title, make "Game of Throne" plural, not the "Throne" itself? But if it is, doesn't "pack of wolves" means more than one pack (but I know it is meant to say that, there is "packs of wolves" for that)?

Sorry if my question is too long and confused you, I asked these questions because I made myself confused by thinking about this and I want to clarify these to me. Thanks in advance!
 
Docm30 说:
Well, there are multiple rings in The Lord of the Rings. That's kind of the whole point of the story.
Isn't one ring to rule them all? And it wasn't the point of my question but thanks anyway.
 
Sauron created one ring to rule all the other rings.
He's the lord of the rings and that's the title.

Tatari_okan 说:
But if it is, doesn't "pack of wolves" means more than one pack (but I know it is meant to say that, there is "packs of wolves" for that)?

No. Pack of wolves means several wolves in a pack. A pack is a social group of conspecific canids
 
Tatari_okan 说:
...it wasn't the point of my question but thanks anyway.

I'm pretty sure it was. You were asking if the name is correct to be plural when there's only one ring, which there isn't.

Game of Thrones is correct because it doesn't actually refer to a single, proper noun throne. It's merely a game involving thrones (not multiple thrones but thrones in general).
 
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