This is somehow almost OK if the pluralized thing is small, like a digit. "I'm at 6's and 7's." Then it's more or less a contraction of "sixes and sevens" and this is a valid use.
Question for the language pedants out there...
- (hnick)
- (19)
- June 3, 2003, 05:19:05 PM EDT
That's a close call
- (drewk)
- (1)
- June 3, 2003, 05:29:49 PM EDT
That one also drives me up a wall...
-NT
- (hnick)
- June 3, 2003, 05:45:23 PM EDT
This is a bogus "rule"
- (Silverlock)
- (10)
- June 3, 2003, 05:35:56 PM EDT
Good, support for what I plan to keep doing anyway ;)
-NT
- (drewk)
- June 3, 2003, 05:39:31 PM EDT
Nice link
- (hnick)
- (6)
- June 3, 2003, 05:49:14 PM EDT
18th century in Virginia?
- (cwbrenn)
- (5)
- June 3, 2003, 06:25:28 PM EDT
No.
- (pwhysall)
- (4)
- June 3, 2003, 06:27:06 PM EDT
Fight!
- (cwbrenn)
- June 3, 2003, 07:03:38 PM EDT
In the mountains of the carolines and virginia
- (boxley)
- June 3, 2003, 08:34:23 PM EDT
Oh, come on...
- (Yendor)
- (1)
- June 3, 2003, 08:49:37 PM EDT
I'm not from these parts.
- (pwhysall)
- June 4, 2003, 02:25:34 AM EDT
That is certainly my experience.
- (dmarker)
- (1)
- June 3, 2003, 06:59:14 PM EDT
**giggle**
- (jb4)
- June 3, 2003, 07:10:43 PM EDT
Conversational - recitation
- (deSitter)
- June 3, 2003, 09:41:42 PM EDT
What about Pl's?
- (deSitter)
- June 3, 2003, 09:44:44 PM EDT
That's the difficulty.. illustrated with such as,
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- June 3, 2003, 10:49:20 PM EDT
That's the thing about breaking rules
- (drewk)
- June 4, 2003, 08:04:07 AM EDT
Syntax error
- (mhuber)
- (1)
- June 4, 2003, 07:25:42 AM EDT
And that is why computers cannot parse arbitrary English.
-NT
- (static)
- June 4, 2003, 08:04:15 AM EDT