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Kirk Herbstreit: If Michigan makes move, Jim Harbaugh is the guy

By Anonymous Coward — November 24th, 2010 at 5:42 PM — 16 comments
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If I decide to breathe air is the pick

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November 24th, 2010 at 6:00 PM
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if i decide to shower, water

if i decide to shower, water is my media

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November 24th, 2010 at 11:47 PM
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Medium. Media is

Medium.

Media is plural.

/global media studies minor who is waaayy too anal about that word.

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November 24th, 2010 at 11:57 PM
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Understood, thanks. Would

Understood, thanks. Would hate to see what your major is.

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November 25th, 2010 at 4:18 AM
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If I say, "The mainstream

If I say, "The mainstream media is stupid; it does terrible work," how does that make you feel?

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November 25th, 2010 at 6:06 PM
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Eh, that seems right to me. 

Eh, that seems right to me.  I'm not an English major but wouldn't that be some example of a collective singular noun?  Is there such a thing?

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November 26th, 2010 at 7:16 AM
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"<b>Opera</b>"

is plural of "Opus." It came about as being a collection of individual, er, opera in the form of arias, sinfoniae, etc., each styled an "opus" in and of itself, the whole packaged as a singular over-all entity. See also "datum," "agendum," et ceterus paribus.

 

The Brits do the same thing in reverse when they pluralize the verb with singular nouns (such as "the Army have just won the war," etc.) that are taken in a collective sense. I think Brits are more comfortable, as well, with using plural personal pronouns as gender-neutral substitutions for gender-specific singular pronouns, which is a practice common from Shakespeare to Jane Austin, up to the time that nineteenth-century grammarians aping the formalities of Latin grammar made this practice an infraction. Know your history and set your grammar free.

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November 28th, 2010 at 9:42 AM
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HTML fail.

HTML fail.

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November 29th, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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I see.

Why don't html tags work in the subject lines?

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November 26th, 2010 at 9:07 AM
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media are

No it is incorrect. The media are... I took a few media/communications classes and learned the hard way.

Interedting bit on collective nouns- I think british folks say "the team are looking to..."

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November 24th, 2010 at 6:34 PM
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Is it weird that I count

Is it weird that I count sentences in newspaper paragraphs instead of reading the articles?

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November 26th, 2010 at 7:47 AM
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This sounds like a good way

to optimize your experiences with MSM. Don't worry about what anyone else says.

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November 25th, 2010 at 2:30 AM
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What an unfortunate picture

What an unfortunate picture of Andrew Luck.

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November 25th, 2010 at 12:04 PM
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"That's right, Andrew."

bilde

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November 29th, 2010 at 2:43 PM
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AHHHHhahaha

I'm so bummed today, yet you guys always crack me up. Between the T-Rex caption and the "if I decide to breathe,  air is the pick" tagline, I'm really enjoying reading considering the circumstances.

Good work all around.

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November 26th, 2010 at 6:51 AM
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If Herbstreit says it, bank it.

But I'm still just getting used to having Les Miles in Ann Arbor.

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December 2nd, 2010 at 12:27 AM
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Herbstreit is God

Of course being an alumnus he's looking out for our interest

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