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Title: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 06:23:42 PM
What the hell is this *feces*?  >:(

Here I am breezing through 5th Grader.  Totally pwning the blonde pregnant chick(although to be fair, she was just a plain idiot), and smoking the comb-over orange farmer, and leaving my wife agape at my Scarecrow like post sheepskin performance.

All of a sudden:  Bam!  4th grade English.  What is the infinitive of the verb "went"?

Uh, come again?  What the *fudge* is that?  I ain't never  heard of that.  Went?  Left?  Leaved?  Split? 
Writ Wrat Wrote?     :yield:

Well, Captain Minute Maid had no idea, and bailed, and lost, so they turned to the son who knew it.

Then, Jeff Einsteinworty explains to all of us mouth breathers that it's the simplest form of the verb.

e.g.  "to go".

 :redcard: [sm_bs]

A.  Who, and when came up with this bull*feces*?, and #2  I can think of a ton of verbs that.....WTF is the infinitive.   

Jumped:  To exert muscular force in an effort to escape the earth's gravitational pull and advance incrementally through an environment?

[place Cliff Claven Jeopardy photo here]


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Torpedo on March 20, 2008, 06:35:32 PM
[place Cliff Claven Jeopardy photo here]

So then someone else gets pwn3d by hotlinking instead of you? ;) ;D


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 20, 2008, 06:40:12 PM
Complimentary wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive) :D


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Aske on March 20, 2008, 06:42:21 PM
pretty easy to answer if you have a combined  latin+spanish schooling of about 20 class-years.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: gleek on March 20, 2008, 06:48:12 PM
pretty easy to answer if you have a combined  latin+spanish schooling of about 20 class-years.


Or if you watched Star Trek regularly, you'd hear a split infinitive in every episode:

"...to boldly go where no man has gone before."


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: tdcoly on March 20, 2008, 06:50:01 PM
pretty easy to answer if you have a combined  latin+spanish schooling of about 20 class-years.


It's been a loooong freaking time, but I seem to remember studying that *feces* somewhere between the 5th and 8th grades.  Woulda stumped me now, though.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 20, 2008, 06:59:49 PM
pretty easy to answer if you have a combined  latin+spanish schooling of about 20 class-years.


lol.  That was actually the main discussion the last time I lunched with friends. 8)


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:01:15 PM
[place Cliff Claven Jeopardy photo here]

So then someone else gets pwn3d by hotlinking instead of you? ;) ;D

LOL 


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:04:16 PM
Complimentary wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive) :D

Oh, that's the first place I went.   [sm_pain] [sm_chairshot]


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Aske on March 20, 2008, 07:05:08 PM
Complimentary wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive) :D

Oh, that's the first place I went.   [sm_pain] [sm_chairshot]

he's learning
 [sm_hide]


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Aske on March 20, 2008, 07:06:07 PM
btw, the one most 'merkans butcher often

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#The_pluperfect_subjunctive


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:09:33 PM
btw, the one most 'merkans butcher often

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#The_pluperfect_subjunctive


Are you *feces*tin' me? 

The pluperfect subjunctive ?

words can't describe the hate!


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Aske on March 20, 2008, 07:12:56 PM
btw, the one most 'merkans butcher often

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#The_pluperfect_subjunctive


Are you *feces*tin' me? 

The pluperfect subjunctive ?

words can't describe the hate!

new sig pending.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:13:37 PM
pretty easy to answer if you have a combined  latin+spanish schooling of about 20 class-years.


lol.  That was actually the main discussion the last time I lunched with friends. 8)

To Eat?    :D


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 20, 2008, 07:13:42 PM
Complimentary wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive) :D

Oh, that's the first place I went.   [sm_pain] [sm_chairshot]

he's learning
 [sm_hide]

The question is: Did he go to wiki via the built-in Firefox search bar?


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:14:04 PM
btw, the one most 'merkans butcher often

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#The_pluperfect_subjunctive


Are you *feces*tin' me? 

The pluperfect subjunctive ?

words can't describe the hate!

new sig pending.


 [sm_rolling] [sm_laughing]


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 20, 2008, 07:16:23 PM
pretty easy to answer if you have a combined  latin+spanish schooling of about 20 class-years.


lol.  That was actually the main discussion the last time I lunched with friends. 8)

To Eat?    :D

R :D F L


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 07:18:44 PM
My third-year German teacher was going to teach us future perfect tense.  However, she said that after four years of German, we would never have had the need to use it.

Sad aside re: splitting the infinitive: I find myself not splitting it in my formal writings, but not caring all that much otherwise.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 20, 2008, 07:24:34 PM
My third-year German teacher was going to teach us future perfect tense.  However, she said that after four years of German, we would never have had the need to use it.

So you've told us. (http://www.golfhos.com/topic-2937.msg38768#msg38768)


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Uisce Beatha on March 20, 2008, 07:25:00 PM
My third-year German teacher was going to teach us future perfect tense.  However, she said that after four years of German, we would never have had the need to use it.

Sad aside re: splitting the infinitive: I find myself not splitting it in my formal writings, but not caring all that much otherwise.

To not the *fudge* care?


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 07:26:33 PM
So you've told us. (http://www.golfhos.com/topic-2937.msg38768#msg38768)
I post that every March in her memory.

 8)


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:29:28 PM
My third-year German teacher was going to teach us future perfect tense.  However, she said that after four years of German, we would never have had the need to use it.

So you've told us. (http://www.golfhos.com/topic-2937.msg38768#msg38768)

LOL

Ich Cliven rechtumschtubel Von Uber Pwn3in Das Chappin Less Assingleible.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 20, 2008, 07:29:36 PM
So you've told us. (http://www.golfhos.com/topic-2937.msg38768#msg38768)
I post that every March in her memory.

 8)

lol

(that post was in April, though :D)


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Spanky on March 20, 2008, 07:30:07 PM
I don't understand a thing in this thread.

This thread sucks!

Serving no purpose, leaving now.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 07:52:31 PM
(that post was in April, though :D)
Yeah, but by the end of April, it already will have been posted.


(Note the unified infinitive!)


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:54:45 PM
(that post was in April, though :D)
Yeah, but by the end of April, it already will have been posted.


(Note the unified infinitive!)

What a bore sponging nerd.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 07:55:16 PM
(http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant2/imgs/250/shb04.gif)


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: stroh on March 20, 2008, 07:57:12 PM
+1


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on March 20, 2008, 08:04:33 PM
(that post was in April, though :D)
Yeah, but by the end of April, it already will have been posted.


(Note the unified infinitive!)

What a bore sponging nerd.

That wouldn't have made any sense had I not just finished catching up on some responses I had recently missed.


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: Blader on March 21, 2008, 05:34:17 AM
My third-year German teacher was going to teach us future perfect tense.  However, she said that after four years of German, we would never have had the need to use it.

Sad aside re: splitting the infinitive: I find myself not splitting it in my formal writings, but not caring all that much otherwise.

some of us notice


Title: Re: Infinitive? WTF? (Complaint)
Post by: geo1 on March 21, 2008, 01:54:57 PM
btw, the one most 'merkans butcher often

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#The_pluperfect_subjunctive


Are you *feces*tin' me? 

The pluperfect subjunctive ?

words can't describe the hate!

This is way to complicated for me.