Sean Connery

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Have any of you realized that if he was to ask someone to "sit down" he would in reality say "S-H-I-T down" or "sit down, if there aren't any chairs to sit on, you may sit on my lap - "**** down, if there aren't any chairs to **** on, you may **** on my lap"
(I tricked the auto sencorship thingy for the first S word, and figured you'd understand that the rest of the 4 star words are the same :p)
We realized this at uni today, and had a lot of fun with it.

On another note:
We were told to read this article about America, immigration, multiculturalism and all that stuff. They used an example of how the two cultures influence eacother by stating that you can buy pinatas that look like teletubbies. The only good thing we got from the article was the fact that appearently, small children like to hit teletubbies, which I can totally understand; I'd love to put up tinky-winky and smack him to pieces. The fact that candy would come out is, offcource, a well deserved bonus.

And is my grammar here correct? In particular referring to two last sentences.
"The only good thing we got from the article was the fact that appearently, small children like to hit teletubbies, which I can totally understand; I'd love to put up tinky-winky and smack him to pieces." It's correct to use a semicolon there, right? the sentences are both independant and are connected. However, shouldn't the last sentence then too be joined by a semicolon? Gimme some criticism here, I need it :p

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Yes, your grammar is correct. Congratulations, most English speakers have no idea when to properly use a semicolon. You don't capitalize after a semicolon; I can't tell if you knew that since your first word after it was "I'd".


Even fewer English speakers have any clue when to use apostrophes.



...on your other point, I once had an Easter dinner which contained both ham and matzo balls. LOL
 
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how about the last sentence? I separated the semicolon sentence from the last sentence by a period, but they are sort of connected. could I join them by a semicolon? I didn't because I just don't like using a lot of semicolons everywhere.

it's like when people write "its cold outside" and I answer "what's cold outside?" :D
It took me some time to master apostrophes (I still haven't got it 100% down) a basic rule to remember is that you use it when you remove a letter.

Thanks for the heads up on of cource.. I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure out if it's offcource, ofcource, off cource or of cource :p I've kinda seen em' all around :D
 
It's "of course"

I'm confused, which sentence? You can always just use a period instead of a semicolon, but not necessarily the other way around.

The problem many people have with apostrophes is plural vs. possessive.

I like to post this cartoon when I feel like a smartass:
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The only good thing we got from the article was the fact that appearently, small children like to hit teletubbies, which I can totally understand; I'd love to put up tinky-winky and smack him to pieces. The fact that candy would come out is, offcource, a well deserved bonus.
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Two sentences. The last one about candy, can that be joined in by a semicolon too? It's related to the other sentence and it is an independend clause, so it can stand on its own. I also thought about using a comma, but I've heard you shouldn't use commas to link independent clauses together, and the sentence was getting kinda long.
 
You need a gf Karky, and if you have one she needs to step her game up. WAaaayyyy too much time on your hands..
 
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Two sentences. The last one about candy, can that be joined in by a semicolon too? It's related to the other sentence and it is an independend clause, so it can stand on its own. I also thought about using a comma, but I've heard you shouldn't use commas to link independent clauses together, and the sentence was getting kinda long.
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I think you might be able to make a case that you could join that too, but that's a monstrous run-on sentence. I'd break it up at least as much as you did, probably more.

I might have said...hit Teletubbies. I can totally understand that;....
 
We figured all this out at school, the Sean Connery and the Teletubbies thing. How is my GF suppose to help me there?

I did think about going through all movies with Connery in them to see if he ever says "**** down". However, if I did that, I WOULD have too much time on my hands and my GF would have had to step up her game.
 
Gooch gave you good advice. Using a second semicolon to link the third thought to the first two thoughts would not be appropriate because it would result in a run-on sentence. But, it sounds like you know how to use a semicolon correctly.

You also use semicolons when you have categories within categories. For example, I have many professionals in my family, including engineers, teachers, dentists, doctors; cardiologists; dermatologists; and urologists, and lawyers. (Note that cardiologists, dermatologists and urologists are a category within doctors).

As for the apostrophe usage, a good rule of thumb is you need one when you contract two words into one, e.g., you're (from you are), I'm (from I am), he's (from he is). You also need an apostrophe with possessions. His girlfriend's @ss is hot! But, if the word ends with an s, you don't add an additional s, e.g., His dogs' (plural) favorite hobby was to chase cars (not his dogs's).

I agree with Gooch that your command of the subtleties of the English language is very good - much better than most Americans - and English isn't even your native tongue!
 
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Karks...I want to say a couple of things. I want to apologize for taking so long to read this thread. You do use the semicolon correctly; however, you have to take into account the length of your indepedent clauses. You should read it outloud to yourself. If you have to take a pause while reading it, then your sentence is too long.

Also, you do capatalize after a semicolon if you're using (I hate to use this term) a proper noun. If you get really bored, then you might look up structural grammar and diagramming sentences. For fun, our grammar and usage professor would have us diagram speeches.
 
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