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 Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:27 pm
Lots of strange usage of language happens in a slang dependent society like ours...
For example "humongous" and other mashed together adjectives. That isn't technically a real word, its slang, but many people wouldn't believe it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:56 pm
I don't think I mind if people use it if they are talking in "slang" but in formal anything and in school, an English teacher should know better.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:11 pm
"More fun!"
"More fun!"
"MORE FUN!"
Ahem...
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:23 am
I know how you feel to some extent. My siblings, younger of course, spout that word like there isn't going to be a tomorrow. My 8th grade honors english teacher is meticulous with her words and never slips up. She should recieve a accolade for her wonderful teaching, examples of good grammar, and sense of humor!
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:55 am
Yeah, I'm still trying to break the habit of saying like. As for the topic, my english teacher uses made up words, but he uses the conciously, and they aren't words like funner, they're just combinations of two words which he made up. He likes made up words and I have to agree that they're great as long as you use them well. Not funner though, that just sounds stupid. rolleyes
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:10 am
I could never say 'funner' without twitching. *twitch* As for slang, I don't use it often. It's kind of because I don't like slang. Some of it is very hurtful and discriminate. However, I tend to use 'like' once in a while because the habit rubbed off on me from my friends, as did cussing.
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:08 pm
I have never say funner, or any other made up word. I never say like either.
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:10 pm
"funner" is a word, for a word is an oral expression that can have a meaning. Should it be in proper English? Never, but it will always be a part of theslang language so commonly used in society to day
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:53 pm
Masamune no Hi Yeah, the rules to English make it the most difficult language in the world to learn. Like that "I before E, except after C, or when sounding as A, like in neighbor or weigh." What about science, sufficient, agencies, financier, their, foreign, being, neither, neither, weird, vein, and seize? There are others... Anyway, I'd never use funner.
I love that quote. I love it so very much. heart
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:56 pm
Anything can be a word in slang. There is no point in debating that. Slang is used to create non-real words. But "funner" is not a real word in the official English language.
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:48 am
Rutoh-Chan Anything can be a word in slang. There is no point in debating that. Slang is used to create non-real words. But "funner" is not a real word in the official English language. I'm going to correct myself. You could probably find it in a dictionary, ain't is in the dictionary, but that does not make it a professionally correct English word.
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