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They’re = They are - shortened
There = place - ‘over there’
Their = Possessive - belongs to them
Thier = nothing
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You’re right. I didn’t read it properly
Your right.
better to state that thier is not a word, rather than nothing.
Or does this comment belong in the overly pedantic thread?
Cargo goes by ship, shipment goes by air.
Park in a driveway. Drive on a parkway.
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EFA, literally.
There’s an overly pedantic thread? Where?
Or should I say: thiers a overly pedantic thread? were? His interested to now.
Oh, and how do you put a line through words on blitz posts?
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Use two tildes before and after the word:
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“Less than” sign, followed by s, followed by “greater than” sign.
Then whatever you want struck out.
Then close with “less than”, slash, s, “greater than”.
Make sense?
Perfect.
Loose
Lose
And your a looser if you can’t tell the diffrenz…
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Here’s one that really gets me:
Not that (adjective) of a (noun), e.g., It’s not that big of a deal.
Delete the “of”. It’s not only unnecessary, it’s wrong.
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Is it cannon, or canon with regards to the object that will fire people into the Sun?
Well, it is both, in a way.
The Cannon™ is definitely Blitz canon.
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“Cannon” is a gun.
“Canon” is a church official.
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“Levantarse” ? Isn’t that an eastern bumhole ?
So if your father is a church official, you could be ‘a son of a gun’.
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That depends on the church. The answer is “Yes” for Anglican, but “No ! First prove the paternity” for RC.
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So you don’t like the partitive genitive ? Fair enough. It is unnecessary here, certainly.
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