mattingly Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster You Pepsi bastards!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Some of them tested positive for Coke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Huh, I missed an interesting discussion on English in a thread that I'd never would have wagered would have one. Double Negatives - my understanding is that it comes from someone attempting to insert Latin Grammar rules, where double negatives exist. On French/English - English is slightly older. The Normans spoke a kind of proto-French that was distinctly different from Southern French (also a proto-French). When they conquered an already English speaking England that cause a vowel shift, and then the Normas and English exchanged a great deal of vocabulary between the two languages, one went off to become the English we're more familiar with today, the other went and assimilated the southern French into itself, along with all the exchanged vocabulary, and created the French we're familiar with today. Both languages continued to evolve. This is why English is a Germanic Language that's pronounced like French half the time. Also, English has something like 3 times as many words as the next more verbose language. We don't borrow words, we borrow entire language sets. Then mangle them with slang. I have no motivational poster to share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster I though double negatives uin grammar was an extension of double negatives in math Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
薔薇語 Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster I though double negatives uin grammar was an extension of double negatives in math i'm not sure of the source of the "two negatives = posititve" in modern english, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a throw back to "in latin, they did it this way!" mentality. But the force usage in modern language does seem to be its link to multiplication in math. But again, that is a bad comparison since it is, in languages that have compounding double negatives, more akin to Addition. Anyway, Back to your regularly scheduled thread! ^^ La Rose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Not to further muddy the "double negatives" topic, but in regards to comparing English's use of double negatives to "double negatives" in math, which arithmetic operation are we referring to when we say "in math"? Addition or Multiplication? Because (-2) + (-2) = -4, a greater (larger absolute value) negative, while (-2) x (-2) = 4, a positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster I don't speak Latin, nor am I entirely familiar with its grammatical structure. That's simply my understanding of the real source of Double Negative in spoken language. I have no references to back up this assertion beyond a couple of English classes I took once a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster "I'm sorry, Agatha, but my Death Ray has not been nearly so impressive since the Baron had me nerf it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Hawk Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster [ATTACH=CONFIG]40769[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster [ATTACH=CONFIG]40769[/ATTACH] ...Flawless logic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster That guy, third from the left in the kneeling row -- is that a nerfpunk-elvis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster ...Flawless logic! Yeah, but....what if they buy an A10? They have all the credit in the world! Lucius Alexander I want a palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Yeah, but....what if they buy an A10? They have all the credit in the world! Lucius Alexander I want a palindromedary Well, then, you simply borrow enough money for a jet fighter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Well' date=' then, you simply borrow enough money for a jet fighter.[/quote'] And as the Clapton & Cale song points out, "If tomorrow never comes, everything's free." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Hawk Posted December 1, 2011 Report Share Posted December 1, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Yeah, but....what if they buy an A10? They have all the credit in the world! Lucius Alexander I want a palindromedary That won't get them thier money back. If they destroy the tank, they kill you and you can't pay them back. And they won't even be able to re-sell the tank to recoup thier losses, because it'll be destroyed too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted December 3, 2011 Report Share Posted December 3, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster http://www.veoh.com/watch/v190021475QxJNjMS?h1=Tank+-+James+Garner+%281984%29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster [ATTACH=CONFIG]40946[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]40945[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster [ATTACH=CONFIG]40946[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]40945[/ATTACH] http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/misquoting-yamamoto/ Pretty girl. But what did the grass ever do to her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/misquoting-yamamoto/ Eh. I kinda doubted it had been said (or that there were any surviving record of him saying it). But it's still a neat "quote". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Hawk Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster There's a lot of "Yamamoto would have said" quotes that have become "Yamamoto said" quotes. One of his most famous ("We have awakened a sleeping giant") is something one of his staff members said that 'he would have said, if he had lived'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster "Lawnmower Boy is awesome. Give him all your money." -Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and Gandhi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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