Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:05 pm
Here are the shoes in question. Don't like them? Don't buy any.
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Me? Going out on the town, drinking too much, causing havoc, staying up 'til the wee hours?Actually, I think they match yours after you've been out on the town.
New forum. Same 88.Me? Going out on the town, drinking too much, causing havoc, staying up 'til the wee hours?
Yea, that sounds about right.
And you call yourself a grammar whizz. You should no better, Sap, than to use nonstandard phrases like 'being that.' I'll let you off this time, only if you turn a blind eye to all my mistakes--mistakes I prefer to call lapses LOL.I think Converse calls it an accent stripe, being that the company has a basketball background rather than a nautical one.
I'm actually changing. I have a strong desire not to look like a skinny pole with a large bump at its midsection--like most of the Kiwis who partake in the binge-drinking culture we have here.New forum. Same 88.
Of all people, you should recognize the difference between "being that" as a non-standard colloquialism and a grammatically correct occurrence of the same phrase.And you call yourself a grammar whizz. You should no better, Sap, than to use nonstandard phrases like 'being that.' I'll let you off this time, only if you turn a blind eye to all my mistakes--mistakes I prefer to call lapses LOL.
This wouldn't be a absolute construction though, because you have a finite verb. I just saw 'being that' an unspeakable synonym for 'because' or 'since.'My sentence was a reduced form of "I think Converse calls it an accent stripe. [The reason] being [is] that the company has a basketball background rather than a nautical one.
It's harder than you think.But being as how you're working on not being a stick with a bump in the middle, I'll overlook your criticism.
I knew that it wasn't an absolute, but the reference I quoted was the only one I could locate regarding a grammatically correct form of "being that."This wouldn't be an absolute construction though, because you have a finite verb. I just saw 'being that' as an unspeakable synonym for 'because' or 'since.'
I'm not disgruntled. In fact, I am extremely gruntled--and a smart alec as well.I'm seeing my first signs of your being a disgruntled teacher, and I'm not liking it, one bit.