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I play in a soccer men's league every wednesday and sunday. The average age of the teams is around 25-30. I played a little college ball and have two brothers who also played college ball and one who is a professional soccer player for the MLS so I take my football seriously. Well when I am on the soccer field I am totally different then I am in normal life. I yell, scream, taunt people, hit people real hard. How many strikers do you know who receive yellow cards every game? hah. Anyways normally I am one of the most laid back and docile people you will ever meet. I don't avoid confrontation off the pitch but I am such a different person.
Anyone else have something like this in their life? Something that completely changes your personality... like besides a girlfriend... haha
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You've just described my hubby to a T. Rather laid-back, unassuming kind of guy, but a real pain in the ass on the pitch! Yellow cards are pretty frequent, he's broken several ribs and fractured his tibia in rough play, almost gotten into several fights and apparently he has quite the mouth during his games :shock:
Whoda thunkit?
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In reply to: You act differentLY. You are suggesting the description of a verb, i.e., an adverb, to the action verb "act," thus you would need to add the suffix "ly" to your modifier. Thus "I act differentLY."
What's your take on Apple's tagline Think Different?
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climberterp
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that it's grammatically incorrect
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Sep 28, 2006, 2:37 AM
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I was just curious. I work in advertising, my colleagues and I have had multiple discussions about their tagline and the grammatical incorrectness. Just wanted to see if anyone else had anything to say about it.
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Sep 28, 2006, 9:32 PM
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In reply to: I play in a soccer men's league every wednesday and sunday. The average age of the teams is around 25-30. I played a little college ball and have two brothers who also played college ball and one who is a professional soccer player for the MLS so I take my football seriously. Well when I am on the soccer field I am totally different then I am in normal life. I yell, scream, taunt people, hit people real hard. How many strikers do you know who receive yellow cards every game? hah. Anyways normally I am one of the most laid back and docile people you will ever meet. I don't avoid confrontation off the pitch but I am such a different person. Anyone else have something like this in their life? Something that completely changes your personality... like besides a girlfriend... haha
who knew that having your balls grabbed brought out the rough side of you, buddy. :roll:
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In reply to: I was just curious. I work in advertising, my colleagues and I have had multiple discussions about their tagline and the grammatical incorrectness. Just wanted to see if anyone else had anything to say about it.
The ad expression, "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should." was around for a long time.
I don't think it makes much difference in advertising. In fact incorrect gets your attention and isn't that what advertisers want to do. Even if it's stupid?
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In reply to: In reply to: Anyone else have something like this in their life? Something that completely changes your personality... who knew that having your balls grabbed brought out the rough side of you, buddy. :roll:
Hehe... jocks are funny
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In reply to: that it's grammatically incorrect
For a prescriptive English grammarian, this is true. However, any descriptive grammar will include statements like "I act different" as acceptable to most native speakers.
Indeed, the pressure for "I act different" lies in the fact that the verb "act," used in this sense, is somewhere between weakly transitive and reflexive, and can thus take a predicate nominative as an object.
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organic
Sep 28, 2006, 11:53 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: that it's grammatically incorrect For a prescriptive English grammarian, this is true. However, any descriptive grammar will include statements like "I act different" as acceptable to most native speakers. Indeed, the pressure for "I act different" lies in the fact that the verb "act," used in this sense, is somewhere between weakly transitive and reflexive, and can thus take a predicate nominative as an object.
Yeah, what he said! In your face!
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mushroomcloud_2
Sep 29, 2006, 12:07 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: I was just curious. I work in advertising, my colleagues and I have had multiple discussions about their tagline and the grammatical incorrectness. Just wanted to see if anyone else had anything to say about it. The ad expression, "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should." was around for a long time. I don't think it makes much difference in advertising. In fact incorrect gets your attention and isn't that what advertisers want to do. Even if it's stupid?
That's pretty much the conclusion that we came to as well.
Sometimes, stupid sells.
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WhoŽda thunk it?
Hope you were on the clock during your meditations, but really, it couldnŽt have taken that long to figure out that $t00Pid sells...
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: I was just curious. I work in advertising, my colleagues and I have had multiple discussions about their tagline and the grammatical incorrectness. Just wanted to see if anyone else had anything to say about it. The ad expression, "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should." was around for a long time. I don't think it makes much difference in advertising. In fact incorrect gets your attention and isn't that what advertisers want to do. Even if it's stupid? That's pretty much the conclusion that we came to as well. Sometimes, stupid sells.
s'cos usually, stupid buys.
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Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee.
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