Like, I’m certainly not perfect in, like, speaking. Lord knows that I, like, *mess up *all the time. I’ve been in Toastmasters for, like, 25 ** YEARS **, and for the life of me, I’ll still, like, constantly mess up my sentences to where the, like, grammar is all wrong. Like, I practice and practice and practice and I’ll still get it wrong; like, using me rather than one when I’m speaking about myself as, like, an example and stuff. it’s, like, a constant battle to, like, improve myself to where I can be understood. But I can always go to, like, the Mall and pick up on all the latest, like, vernaculars and know that, like, deep inside myself I, like, have the, like, capability to, like, get my message across.
Ya know?
*runs to the wall and bangs, like, my head against it…
There are a couple of possible distinctions, used differently by different people: 1) yours, 2) “nouns have gender and people have sex;” 3) the Queer-theory version, in which sex is physical and gender is societal.
My dictionary gives “celibate” as “commited to abstention from sexual relations and from marriage, esp. for religious reasons; 2) abstaining from sexual relations”, and “chaste” as “abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual relations”. So they can indeed be synonymous, although one can include sex within marriage and the other can exclude it.
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“That” is restrictive, “which” isn’t. Dogs that are large are dangerous (only such dogs); cats, which are small, are better pets (cats in general).
So, HappyHeathen, you still use words like “shoppe” and “ye”? Heck, I’ll give you ten SPOOFE points if you can give me the proper pronunciation of the latter.
(Extra credit my sweet patooty… when did you of all people become the teacher for the masses?)
Since happyheathen refrained from doing so, I’ll do it – “ye” (in the context in which I assume you’re imagining it) is properly pronounced “the.” It’s a holdover from Old English – the letter Y in early modern texts was sometimes used as an equivalent of the letter þ (thorn), which represents the [th] sound in Old (and sometimes Middle) English. You’ll also see “yt” for “that” sometimes.
(Which is not to say it always meant [th], of course. IIRC, some old printed texts place two vertical lines over the y when it means [th], but I don’t have any on hand to check. ;))
Matt, the fact that the second syllable is longer makes me think that more emphasis is being placed on it. Of course, that’s just my opinion. But I’m sure you’ll agree that they do in fact have distinct pronunciations.
Astroboy, this Pit thread should have been shut down when DesertGeezer started gushing about how wonderful you are. The Mods really ought to crack down on that sort of thing.
