Thread 24698642

>I could of done that
>I can't breath
>Chris' things

>do do
teeheeheeheee

>>24698706
I was explicitly taught that "Chris' things" is wrong, but I see it so frequently that I have begun to believe that my 7th grade English teacher was a rogue educator.

>>24698876
It's maybe the most common mistake I see in writing and I fucking hate it

James uses "had, had had" a fair amount and has some sentences which get a little ridiculous with the hads. Believe it is in The Ambassadors he really goes hard with it and generally in the parts about Chad so you get shit like Chad had, had had, he'd have had." I fucking love James.

>>24698706
>Chris’
That’s correct in america, per chicago manual of style. You must be british or canadian.

>>24699082
I just looked into this whole debacle and holy shit what a language lol.
a nice consensus would've been pronunciation
>a horse
>an honorable discharge
>Chris's things
>the scissors’ blades
but even that can change from person to person.
>>24699058
Tom and Jerry had a test with a question of "had" vs "had had". Tom, while Jerry had had "had had", had had "had". "had had" had had a better result on Jerry's score.

>>24698642 (OP)
>>24698656
are you saying you don't like these or that they're incorrect? they're perfectly cromulent given the context

>>24698642 (OP)
>supposebly

>>24699260
>cromulent
You fucking simpsons fuck. Get out of this board before I tear your pallid sallow appendages from their sockets

>>24699112
>>a horse
>>an honorable discharge
I am going to help you real quick: it doesn't have to do with whether the word starts with a consonant or a vowel. What matters is the sound, whether it's a consonant- or vowel-sounding phoneme. A perfect example: y. Sometimes y is a vowel and sometimes it's a consonant. It's a consonant when it's a ya- sound, and it's a vowel when it sounds like a long E. Additionally, there are words in which either is fine, like a or an historic [occasion, etc.].

>>24699273
That's what I said. Pronunciation
It would've been nice if the same applied to 's and s's but different people pronounce different cases differently so it's a suggestion at best.

>>24699271
DOH!

>>24699271
>Family Guy poster condescending to a Simpsons patrician

>>24700476
a cancan can can

>>24701791
>Look under there!
>Under where?

>>24699112
>Tom and Jerry had a test with a question of "had" vs "had had". Tom, while Jerry had had "had had", had had "had". "had had" had had a better result on Jerry's score.
Cheap trick compared to James.