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View Poll Results: Is your money at the bank | |||
in your account at the bank | 15 | 60.00% | |
on your account at the bank | 0 | 0% | |
something else (please let me know) | 3 | 12.00% | |
what is this "money" of which you speak? | 7 | 28.00% | |
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02-23-2012, 06:53 PM | #16 |
still says videotape
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02-24-2012, 01:51 PM | #17 |
Encroaching on your decrees
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Thank you all for being my guinea pigs. I was corrected on this matter by a non-English speaker who told me firmly that their dictionary said it was "money on an account at the bank". Yass, I am vindicated!
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02-24-2012, 05:26 PM | #18 |
still says videotape
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I've heard the "on account" construction for debt.
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02-24-2012, 05:55 PM | #19 |
To shreds, you say?
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did you graduate or were you graduated?
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02-25-2012, 06:11 AM | #21 |
polaroid of perfection
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Furriners talk funny, that's that.
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02-25-2012, 11:22 PM | #22 |
I hear them call the tide
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me too. if you get something on account, it means you owe them.
So.... just got in from the hockey and was reminded that the announcer says "That's X's third goal on the season" instead of "third goal of the season. Is that the usual construction here, or is he just weird?
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02-26-2012, 05:47 PM | #24 |
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Kind of reminds me of the whole "She's at the university" vs. "She's at university.", and you could substitute 'university' for 'hospital'. As in "She was taken to hospital" vs. "She was taken to the hospital".
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02-26-2012, 07:05 PM | #25 |
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Shit, Grav, articles are about the only thing worse than prepositions. Must you?
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02-27-2012, 11:54 AM | #26 |
Makes some feel uncomfortable
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I has the monies on account at the banks. Not many monies, because I have much spendings to make.
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02-27-2012, 05:58 PM | #27 |
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There. Just like my students' essays.
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02-27-2012, 06:43 PM | #28 |
still says videotape
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My daughter went to prom. Sometime in the last 30 years an article got dropped. I blame Canada.
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02-27-2012, 07:27 PM | #30 |
Doctor Wtf
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You mean the Canada. Keep up, will you?
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