acemuzzy wrote:That's insame
adkm1979 wrote:Yeah, let's do this discussion again. It really improves my forum relations.dynamiteReady wrote:Salt!!?
Yossarian wrote:Same is a one syllable adjective. One syllable adjectives are turned into comparatives by adding -er. It's definitely correct.
adkm1979 wrote:You buys mealy fret on my zits when you fret this huff thong.
Sanity is the noun form of sane. The noun form of same is sameness.dynamiteReady wrote:Yossarian wrote:Same is a one syllable adjective. One syllable adjectives are turned into comparatives by adding -er. It's definitely correct.
Funny you should misspell sane with same though...
Can't same also be used as an adjective?
And with that in mind...
'Samity'
Should make sense...
Cause I do occasionally worry about our samity...
Yossarian wrote:Sanity is the noun form of sane. The noun form of same is sameness.
That's not actually what I said.Yossarian wrote:Your rice cooker cooks rice faster than a saucepan would? Are you sure about that?tigerswiftly wrote:My time is too valuable and shaving seconds off of menial tasks is important. Having a rice cooker saves me small amounts of my incredibly valuable time.
I am an expert measurer.SpaceGazelle wrote:You've still got to measure the rice/water ratio so how does it save time? You've got to plug it in for a start. I reckon it takes about 20 man-seconds to grab a pot, put in a cup of rice and two cups of water, salt and turn the hob on and stick on the lid. Maybe another 1/4 second to turn off the hob.tigerswiftly wrote:My time is too valuable and shaving seconds off of menial tasks is important. Having a rice cooker saves me small amounts of my incredibly valuable time. Which I use posting on the forum. Defending rice cookers.
in fairness, without being dramatic, I would have a very slight pause in the first sentence, and not in the second.dynamiteReady wrote:@Elf Those two sentences? Without dramatic inflection (or what have you), no.
adkm1979 wrote:in fairness, without being dramatic, I would have a very slight pause in the first sentence, and not in the second.@Elf Those two sentences? Without dramatic inflection (or what have you), no.
We do to some extent with word stress. Take the sentence 'I didn't say you stole my wallet' and read it out loud seven times, each time stressing a different word, and you get seven different meanings.dynamiteReady wrote:adkm1979 wrote:in fairness, without being dramatic, I would have a very slight pause in the first sentence, and not in the second.@Elf Those two sentences? Without dramatic inflection (or what have you), no.
Dramatic inflection...
We don't have that weird tonal thing in English like say, the Japanese have, where the length of the sound of a word, or the pause between itself and another, is denotative.
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