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Originally Posted by creeksky
This is a funny thread.
My nephew's only answer with "what ever" to most things.
One day, someone new will be given all the good advice into buying a telescope.
Then answer "whateva"
re: Macca's A hash brown looks like a potato patty to me.
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Originally Posted by omegacrux
Yes that annoys me how sports commentator's pronounce D'fence and Off'ence .
David
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Originally Posted by MortonH
No apostrophe required in commentators or nephews!!!
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Agree on commentators (assuming the plural is meant in the sentence, not one commentator's use of language).
Nephew's is correct (showing the origination of the opinion, however the rest of the sentence is wrong in one way or another, I believe that the intent was to say "My Nephew answers only with "What ever" to most things".
Macca's (sic) is incorrect, as it is not an abbreviation (McD's), in which case it is a slang term and Maccas is acceptable. A hash brown still contains no hash though it may contain some brown.
Which just goes to show that even without "proper" English, one can make oneself understood, and that, indeed, language evolves. I recently had the pleasure of binge watching the HBO series Deadwood, the language used in that series is great, not at all what I expected, possibly not that real either. The cursing in the series was "updated" to modern standards as the curses that would have been used at the time were considered too passé, it worked, even with Mr Woo's only words of English.
Cheers
Stuart