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Basic English that I learned today. - hereticalrants - 2010-03-15
What did you learn today in your native language that you probably should have known already?
I´ll start.
Today I learned:
1) Lady Gaga is NOT a show pony. She is, in fact, a singer.
2)FTW stands for "for the win."
Basic English that I learned today. - Asriel - 2010-03-15
FTW is WTF backwards
Basic English that I learned today. - wccrawford - 2010-03-15
hereticalrants Wrote:1) Lady Gaga is NOT a show pony. She is, in fact, a singer.Some would debate that little tidbit.
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Basic English that I learned today. - captal - 2010-03-15
In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.
Basic English that I learned today. - blackmacros - 2010-03-15
captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.
Basic English that I learned today. - shadysaint - 2010-03-15
cupidity
-eager or excessive desire, esp. to possess something; greed; avarice.
Basic English that I learned today. - kainzero - 2010-03-15
Isn't it... "He is just about THE same age as me."?
Today I learned that "deadline-harried" is an actual word.
Basic English that I learned today. - JimmySeal - 2010-03-15
IceCream Wrote:He is just about same age as meCorrected what? That sentence is definitely missing a the
apparently this sentence is correct? (well, everyone except me corrected it this way...)
To be strictly correct, it would be "He is just about the same age as I." But I think you have to own a monocle to say it that way.
Basic English that I learned today. - chamois - 2010-03-15
blackmacros Wrote:we unstack in sydney...captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.
Basic English that I learned today. - mezbup - 2010-03-15
chamois Wrote:on the internetz we ctrl + z the dishwasherblackmacros Wrote:we unstack in sydney...captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.
Basic English that I learned today. - Nukemarine - 2010-03-15
In the US the dishwasher also cooks.
Basic English that I learned today. - Jarvik7 - 2010-03-15
captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.Those are both wrong. The correct way (obviously duh) is "empty the dishwasher", unless you are unloading it off of a truck or unpacking it from a crate.
Basic English that I learned today. - crayonmaster - 2010-03-15
Unload, unpack... I just "put the dishes away"
Basic English that I learned today. - Babyrat - 2010-03-15
unload the dishwasher, empty the dishwasher.. I use both if we are talking about taking the stuff out of it.
if we are on about taking it off a truck and putting it in a house the I would use either unload or unpack.
Basic English that I learned today. - Asriel - 2010-03-15
I would unload the dishwasher from a truck, and unpack it from the box it was stored in (while on the truck). Then I would put my dirty dishes in it, and empty the dishwasher when it's done. I could also unload the dishes form the dishwasher, if I chose to.
Basic English that I learned today. - Gingerninja - 2010-03-15
In soviet Russia the dishwasher unloads you...
sorry...
Basic English that I learned today. - yudantaiteki - 2010-03-15
JimmySeal Wrote:That's one of those invented rules of 19th century grammarians; the OED cites "as tall as me" in Shakespeare, and "A fooles wrath is heauier then them bothe" from the 1560 Geneva Bible.IceCream Wrote:He is just about same age as meCorrected what? That sentence is definitely missing a the
apparently this sentence is correct? (well, everyone except me corrected it this way...)
To be strictly correct, it would be "He is just about the same age as I." But I think you have to own a monocle to say it that way.
Basic English that I learned today. - bodhisamaya - 2010-03-15
IceCream Wrote:thankyou!! so glad im not going insane!!!I think you may have been misdiagnosed
Basic English that I learned today. - captal - 2010-03-15
blackmacros Wrote:Queensland. Maybe it's just the people I'm with that are crazy.captal Wrote:In Australia they say "unpack the dishwasher" instead of unload. Creepy.Where abouts? Not where I'm from (Perth and Melbourne). I always unload my dishwasher.
Basic English that I learned today. - mezbup - 2010-03-15
You can also say "do" the dishwasher... like "can you do the dishwasher and I'll vacuum?".
Basic English that I learned today. - ruiner - 2010-03-15
I "disrobe" the dishwasher...
Basic English that I learned today. - kainzero - 2010-03-15
I unload ON the dishwasher.
This may possibly be the greatest thread I have ever seen on this board.
Basic English that I learned today. - mezbup - 2010-03-15
A quantum physicist sees the dishwasher as both loaded and unloaded at the same time, also when it's closed there may even be a dead cat in there.
Basic English that I learned today. - Gingerninja - 2010-03-15
mezbup Wrote:A quantum physicist sees the dishwasher as both loaded and unloaded at the same time, also when it's closed there may even be a dead cat in there.is the whole thing with the cat a standard quantum physicist thing, or did you just pull that from flashforward
Basic English that I learned today. - mezbup - 2010-03-15
Gingerninja Wrote:it's a famous experimentmezbup Wrote:A quantum physicist sees the dishwasher as both loaded and unloaded at the same time, also when it's closed there may even be a dead cat in there.is the whole thing with the cat a standard quantum physicist thing, or did you just pull that from flashforward