BBO Discussion Forums: Silly poll on English language - BBO Discussion Forums

Jump to content

  • 4 Pages +
  • « First
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

Silly poll on English language for native speakers of English

Poll: "Driving while under the influence of alcohol" (36 member(s) have cast votes)

Which combination would you use?

  1. drink driving (6 votes [16.67%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 16.67%

  2. drink-driving (2 votes [5.56%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 5.56%

  3. drunk driving (21 votes [58.33%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 58.33%

  4. drunk-driving (1 votes [2.78%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 2.78%

  5. drunken driving (3 votes [8.33%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  6. drunken-driving (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. drinking and driving / drinking & driving (3 votes [8.33%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  8. drinking-and-driving / drinking-&-driving (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. another combination of to drink & "driving" (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

Vote Guests cannot vote

#61 User is offline   helene_t 

  • The Abbess
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 17,198
  • Joined: 2004-April-22
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Interests:History, languages

Posted 2015-January-12, 09:04

More google results: India, South Africa and Canada use the US form almost universaly, while Ireland, NZ and OZ use the British form more consistently than the UK does. Singapore is 50/50. Malta has a slight preference for the British form.
The world would be such a happy place, if only everyone played Acol :) --- TramTicket
0

#62 User is offline   WellSpyder 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 1,627
  • Joined: 2009-November-30
  • Location:Oxfordshire, England

Posted 2015-January-12, 11:41

 Vampyr, on 2015-January-10, 11:20, said:

not that it is a generational thing since you are the same age as I and Robin not a whole lot older!

Perhaps we should have another poll to determine how many native English speakers would say "the same age as I" (ie implicitly "the same age as I am") and how many would say "the same age as me"......
0

#63 User is offline   Zelandakh 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 10,702
  • Joined: 2006-May-18
  • Gender:Not Telling

Posted 2015-January-12, 11:53

 blackshoe, on 2015-January-11, 19:25, said:

I wouldn't be surprised to find that really good chess players think in terms of patterns of moves, rather than individual moves.

It depends to some extent on how sharp the position is. Most of the time, while being aware of thematic plans for a given position, it is not enough to think of "patterns", you have to come down to concrete variations.
(-: Zel :-)
0

#64 User is offline   Bbradley62 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,542
  • Joined: 2010-February-01
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Brooklyn, NY, USA

Posted 2015-January-12, 12:10

 WellSpyder, on 2015-January-12, 11:41, said:

Perhaps we should have another poll to determine how many native English speakers would say "the same age as I" (ie implicitly "the same age as I am") and how many would say "the same age as me"......
As a native New Yorker, I always say "the same age as I am", because "the same age as I" is grammatically correct but sounds dorkish. For the same reason, I never use the word "data" with a verb that is specifically plural: "the data will show" or "based on the data", never "the data show".
0

#65 User is offline   Vampyr 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 10,611
  • Joined: 2009-September-15
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:London

Posted 2015-January-12, 13:05

 Bbradley62, on 2015-January-12, 12:10, said:

As a native New Yorker, I always say "the same age as I am"

As another native New Yorker, I wonder if I do the same; I will try to notice next time.

What seems natural when writing can sound, as you say "dorkish" when speaking.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones -- Albert Einstein
0

#66 User is offline   PassedOut 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 3,678
  • Joined: 2006-February-21
  • Location:Upper Michigan
  • Interests:Music, films, computer programming, politics, bridge

Posted 2015-April-12, 11:37

From the American Register: Scientists discover Universe isn’t growing as fast as they previously thought

Quote

These findings are sure to protein shake upward cosmologists’ contemplating and could push those to revise downwards the two fee your world is actually widening in addition to the amount of dark vitality specific to your world.

Should not submit any more articles until sober...
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
1

#67 User is offline   barmar 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Admin
  • Posts: 21,594
  • Joined: 2004-August-21
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2015-April-13, 08:47

That article seems to have been written by Google Translate. E.g. "work day in the direction of your red" is presumably a translation of "red shift".

#68 User is offline   y66 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,496
  • Joined: 2006-February-24

Posted 2015-April-13, 11:10

From your list, I picked "drunk driving". If it had included "driving under the influence", "driving under the influence of alcohol" or DUI I would have picked that instead.
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again -- Richard Ford in The Sportswriter
0
  • 4 Pages +
  • « First
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

4 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 4 guests, 0 anonymous users