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Originally Posted by Frownland
Treating band names as plurals.
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This is one I can never get. A band, a team, any collection of individuals I'll always use the plural. Marillion are crap or Marillion is crap? Man City are going to win the title or Man City is going to win the title? The USAF has a lot of aircraft or the USAF have a lot of aircraft?
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Originally Posted by grindy
No, they're literally ****.
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Ah. So they're brown, sticky and smelly? Got it.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
It’s probably best to keep your simple distinctions where they are but if you read the complete definitions it can get blurry. People avoid using effect as a verb because so many people will jump to the conclusion they’re confusing it with affect.
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I think in fairness you're just using an affectation here to try to have an effect on something that doesn't affect me, but the effect is minimal.
Affectionately yours,
TH.
Oh, while we're at it: people (especially football players/managers when being interviewed) who BEGIN a discourse with "As I say..." No, you have said nothing yet, so you are in fact referring back to an event that has not happened yet. Toerag.
Also, does anyone notice (you Americans won't I guess) that commentators now declare, when a goalkeeper punches away a ball, "Oh he fisted it away!"? Fisting is something, ah, entirely different, pal.
And by the way, "statuesque defending" is not what you believe it is, idiot.