11-12-2019, 10:30 AM | #31 |
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Re: Occupational Forensics
"Her English is too good," he said, "That clearly indicates that she is foreign."
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11-12-2019, 10:31 AM | #32 |
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Re: Occupational Forensics
What kind of European? FWIW I cross my 7s and in the rare cases I use Z I don't cross it. The former was presented as totally optional at school, and Icelandic doesn't use Z.
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11-13-2019, 01:21 AM | #33 |
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Re: Occupational Forensics
I believe many native English speakers use "dice" for both singular and plural.
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11-13-2019, 01:45 AM | #34 |
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Re: Occupational Forensics
That was my point. Only grammar pedants and roleplayers say "die," and maybe croupiers or professional backgammon and Monopoly players would too, but I haven't come across any of them.
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11-13-2019, 01:57 AM | #35 |
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Re: Occupational Forensics
Eh, most people don't talk about dice much at all, but I've certainly met people who are neither grammar pedants nor roleplayers who know that the singular form is die. It's just one of those weird words that you learn the conjugation of.
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11-13-2019, 07:21 AM | #36 |
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Re: Occupational Forensics
Okay, "only" might be exaggerating, but nonetheless there's a strong tendency.
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11-13-2019, 10:40 AM | #37 |
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Re: Occupational Forensics
Technically, only verbs have conjugations. Nouns have declensions in the classical languages, but I don't think even that word applies for English nouns, which don't have case endings. On the other hand, Wikipedia refers to "declined for gender" and "declined for number" as alternatives to "declined for case," so maybe the broader use is valid.
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11-13-2019, 09:31 PM | #38 | |
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I was just mentioning that seeing someone with burns on one hand and cuts on the other isn't super reliable.
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11-14-2019, 03:00 AM | #39 |
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And, of course, it doesn't have to be useful to the character to be useful to the story. Sending the character on a wild goose chase when the would-be thief isn't even a cook, or distracting the character with a suspicious cook when it's actually the busboy who is the assassin, is perfectly legitimate.
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