Comments on: Chicago is out

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:54:00 +0000

Bwah! I didn’t think you’d actually respond! However, nope I’m just following the few grammar rules I know of:

Hence ‘that’ versus ‘who’:

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000255.htm

It would seem some have given up because it’s misused so often just as ‘healthy’ is misused to mean ‘healthful’:

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000219.htm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:43:00 +0000

So what is this? Now Gil gets to veto Webster? It’s usually used for impersonal objects – it’s perfectly acceptable to use for people.

By: The Albatross

The Albatross — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:06:00 +0000

Didn’t the Weimer Republic get the Olympics? Hilter just inhereted them.

By: Gil

Gil — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:15:00 +0000

‘That’ is supposed to be used with plants, animals and objects and is impersonal. ‘Who’ is supposed to be used with people. One person once linked an article where grammer glitches are now apparently considered acceptable because people have given up the desire to correct the glitches.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:07:00 +0000

The U.S. taxpayer dodged that bullet. The cost overruns paid by the U.S. treasury would have been enough to swamp Charley Rangel’s Dominican resort with retiring corrupt Chicago politicians beginning in 2017. The exodus would have been so swift a new generation of Illinois building inspectors would have had to scramble to figure out how to extort a $100 bribe from property owners.

The combination of corrupt Chicago politicians and corrupt IOC members would have turned the ex-Nigerian treasury official that keeps e-mailing me green with envy. Then if they had moved the UN and the U.S. Capitol to Chicago in 2016 we would have seen the greatest collection of crooks and criminals in the history of the world. It would have been so bad Roman Polanski could have moved there and people would be glad they didn’t have another politician amongst them.

By: mesaeconoguy

mesaeconoguy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Here’s a hint: nobody cares what you think.

Have a nice day.

By: mesaeconoguy

mesaeconoguy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:57:00 +0000

By the way, this story is getting entirely too much attention.

Obama is just as much of an incompetent boob now as he was before this episode. This only brought to light his massive incompetence in a highly public forum, albeit entirely ceremonial. It means nothing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:43:00 +0000

Not a problem per se – but since you’re not elaborating on what’s so crappy or wrong-headed about the points I made, I’m just left scratching my head about what’s got you so bothered. Do detailed questions just bother you? I don’t get it.

By: mesaeconoguy

mesaeconoguy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:34:00 +0000

Yes, you write crap. Problem?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:50:00 +0000

Well, Nazis did often flee to South America, right? I’m sure the people on here who see fascism behind every corner will eventually come around to finding something sinister in the Rio selection.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:48:00 +0000

“that” is perfectly appropriate as a pronoun in this context. To quote webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/that):

“That, which, who: In current usage that refers to persons or things, which chiefly to things and rarely to subhuman entities, who chiefly to persons and sometimes to animals. The notion that that should not be used to refer to persons is without foundation; such use is entirely standard.”

Methinks was (incorrectly) correcting my grammar too the other day. What’s the deal with grammar Nazis lately? Isn’t the advantage of blogging that, except for cases that are so egregious they are unreadable, you can be a little casual?

By: Gil

Gil — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Heck! When you see the Olympic Torch alight you can join in Hitler’s 1936 vision of a thousand years of Nazi rule!

P.S. Mesa must have caught a ‘verbal stomach bug’.

By: Gil

Gil — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:13:00 +0000

That should read:

“I’d rather be someone -who’s- verbose than someone -who- gets upset enough at substantial length comment to respond twice complaining about it.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:08:00 +0000

Haha – wait a minute, wait a minute.

You write “Oprah’s leaking massive botox pools right now” and you call what I write crap?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:05:00 +0000

I’d rather be someone that’s verbose than someone that gets upset enough at substantial length comment to respond twice complaining about it. It’s kind of a weird reaction man (girl?).

Too many people pass on links and literature because it agrees with their position, rather than because it’s of high quality. More people should question “proof” that gets linked to or passed around.

By: Billy

Billy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:26:00 +0000

Russ and Don should really go back to moderating comments.

By: mesaeconoguy

mesaeconoguy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:28:00 +0000

Think Hit- um, O will do the right thing now, George? Oprah’s leaking massive botox pools right now, major biohazard….

By: mesaeconoguy

mesaeconoguy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:22:00 +0000

Well at least Hitler knew when his cult was up…

By: mesaeconoguy

mesaeconoguy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:09:00 +0000

Seriously, man (girl?), do you ever shut up? Never mind the economics part – how do you spew so much verbal crap?I am genuinely curious. What makes you so cluelessly verbose?You are Krugman’s wet dream intern, so I’ll forward your (fake) resume to him. Sadly, I fear even he will tire of you.Plan B: the UN & IOC. Wait…IPCC. That’s where you belong.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:01:00 +0000

Well as Bill Maher said at least the comparisons of Obama to Hitler can stop now. Because Hitler GOT the Olympics.