Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 37th Edition

• Ferret

  9 May 07, 17:21

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Let's put it this way....
  
  If you don't know how to walk, then don't try to run.
  
  If anything, I think that their strategy of leafing through all those lists of bombastic words backfired on them spectacularly. I mean, it's one thing to know the meanings of those words, but using them in the wrong context can get you into a lot of trouble.
  
  And when you have non-existent words like 'alot' appearing in the passage, it goes to show that you're trying to hard to impress the examiners without trying to get the basics right first.

  alot is not a word ?
• the Bear

  9 May 07, 17:22

  they deserve it because they have to put up with people like you
  
  

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  Did you know that poly lecturers gets 40 days of annual leave a year?

• av98m

  9 May 07, 17:22

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  they deserve it because they have to put up with people like you
  
  

  
• Rhonda

  9 May 07, 17:23

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I still read emails at work from people using bombastic words wrongly
  
  That being said, I feel my command of the english language getting worse over the years, so some reason. Soon I'll be grunting instead of speaking in complete sentences. ><

  
  
  Actually, my standard has plunged as well!
• choco B

  9 May 07, 17:24

  Them and then some!
  
  Everyone knows some incompetent idiot or other who evokes the response "How the hell did he get that cushy job??! "
  
  Ai sometimes I think it's all luck and timing.
  

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  you mean... like.. Ministers?
  

• hisoka

  9 May 07, 17:24

  my english very the bad
• fudgester

  9 May 07, 17:24

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  alot is not a word ?

  My tuition student once insisted that 'alot' does exist.
  
  He even claimed that he could find the word in a dictionary and sought to prove me wrong.
  
  Unfortunately, the brat had to eventually eat his words when he couldn't find it.
  
  
• av98m

  9 May 07, 17:24

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  
  
  Actually, my standard has plunged as well!

  I'm trying to battle the decline by reading as much as I can ><
• stellazio

  9 May 07, 17:25

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  they deserve it because they have to put up with people like you
  
  

  but you know whats the stupid thing bout it?
  
  the polys have done away with the admin people, so the lecturers are boggled down with alot of planning and administrative work like open house etc during their supposed holidays.
  
  one of the lecturers was complaining to us.
• Ferret

  9 May 07, 17:25

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  My tuition student once insisted that 'alot' does exist.
  
  He even claimed that he could find the word in a dictionary and sought to prove me wrong.
  
  Unfortunately, the brat had to eventually eat his words when he couldn't find it.
  
  

  so alotta is also not a word ?
  
  >.<"
• the Bear

  9 May 07, 17:25

  "allot" is a word... means you are allowed to have a certain amount of something...
  
  "a lot" means many or much of something..
  
  "a lot" may also mean "an allotment" of something...
  
  "lot" may also mean something like your destiny or your assignment in life.. used in a sentence like "this is your lot in life"
  
  ahhh.. the intricacies of the language
  
  btw, there is no such word as "alot"
  
  

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  alot is not a word ?

• av98m

  9 May 07, 17:26

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  so alotta is also not a word ?
  
  >.<"

  there there
  
  *pat* *pat*
• choco B

  9 May 07, 17:26

  / is very conscious about her language now and starts running posts through the spell-check
  
  Be veeewy careful, I'm hunting grammar mistakes!
• Wanda

  9 May 07, 17:26

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  
  
  Actually, my standard has plunged as well!

  x2.
• Rhonda

  9 May 07, 17:27

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i read the books once..
  
  i read the plays and watched the plays on video... once...
  
  i read the poetry and fell asleep halfway...
  
  i knew my A Math, E Math, Chemistry and Physics will pull me through (although i did screw up my Chemistry and Physics)
  
  and i plain just didn't care
  
  

  
  
  I think for PSLE, I got A*. For 'O' levels, A1 for English and Literature. For 'A' levels... shoot!! I cannot remember!!
  
  I go dig my files...
• choco B

  9 May 07, 17:27

  "Alotta" is a name
  

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  so alotta is also not a word ?
  
  >.<"

• fudgester

  9 May 07, 17:28

  Originally posted by Ferret:

  so alotta is also not a word ?
  
  >.<"

  *me gives a lot of honey-coated mice to the ferret*
  
  
• Wanda

  9 May 07, 17:28

  Originally posted by choco B:

  "Alotta" is a name
  

  Lotta is a brand of Japanese confectionery.
• hisoka

  9 May 07, 17:29

  english pros all here, me better be careful of my english
• the Bear

  9 May 07, 17:29

  her lot, your lot, or a lot of?
  
  

  Originally posted by fudgester:
  
  
  *me gives [b]a lot of honey-coated mice to the ferret*
  
  [/b]

• Rhonda

  9 May 07, 17:30

  Originally posted by fudgester:
  
  
  *me gives [b]a lot of honey-coated mice to the ferret*
  
  [/b]

  'A lot' should be used on uncountable nouns, shouldn't it?
  
  Darnit... getting too confusing liao!
• hisoka

  9 May 07, 17:30

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  her lot, your lot, or a lot of?
  
  

  beauty of /problem with english
• av98m

  9 May 07, 17:30

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  'A lot' should be used on uncountable nouns, shouldn't it?
  
  Darnit... getting too confusing liao!

  *brain explodes*
• Rhonda

  9 May 07, 17:30

  OK, let me rectify that. 'A lot' is not the proper collective noun to use on mice.
• fudgester

  9 May 07, 17:30

  Originally posted by Wanda:

  x2.

  x3.
  
  Simply put, two years in the army with lots of exposure to Malay/ Hokkien/ Cantonese vulgarities can do much to blunt one's standards in English.