I can't think of a sentence where "None is" would be more appropriate than "None are," so I'ma vote plural.
It used to be taught as singular. Something like "None of the staff is attending the meeting."
Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Steph L. - Oct 26, 2009 9:51:08 am PDT #27980 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Atropa - Oct 26, 2009 9:53:02 am PDT #27981 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
smonster, your outfit sounds super-darling!
I went to orientation for my new job this morning. Where "orientation" = fill out paperwork, hear a pep talk, be handed health insurance info to look at later. For this I had to be someplace at 8AM? Hmmph.
beth b - Oct 26, 2009 10:08:56 am PDT #27982 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
My Tivo just rest it self. I do not know why. Technology is not supposed to be unpredictable.
beth b - Oct 26, 2009 10:09:40 am PDT #27983 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
8am. ewww. esp. for paperwork.
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2009 10:22:39 am PDT #27984 of 30000
Trust my rage
I can't think of a sentence where "None is" would be more appropriate than "None are," so I'ma vote plural.
To me, if you put any other word in there to replace "none" (like, no other people ... coming), you have to use the plural, so I always use "none are...". It always makes me happy to know there are other people that think about these things.
IhomebuyingN, we made a counter-counter offer (actually, just a new offer) in which I basically put my foot down. The thing that pissed me off the most, though, was that their realtor seems to think that since we don't want to just volunteer to fork over $7K in closing costs, we are perhaps not qualified. Which really, not her problem. I mean, she and her clients get their money no matter what.
And suddenly I'm thinking that we don't have any realtors on this board, do we? I wonder if it's a personality, Myers-Briggs type thing. I'd be curious to see an MB breakdown of buffistas.
smonster - Oct 26, 2009 10:23:38 am PDT #27985 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
a decent image of Laura Palmer's tombstone
Found one that works. Nebber mind.
erikaj - Oct 26, 2009 10:26:30 am PDT #27986 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
My mother would say there are no realtors on this board because the animals have not run away yet, but then my mother worked for title companies for years...no love lost there.
Shir - Oct 26, 2009 10:30:28 am PDT #27987 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I was verbally spanked with the Fear of God, along everyone else in my ancient Rome class, to read our damn articles.
And when they say read, they mean "memorize everything that we might feel asking about." The system is that "in order to get to know the names of the people in the class", they pick one randomly out of the students list, and point the "trivial question" to them.
Fear. Fear and horror. Fear and horror and... ack. Something else that's feared and horrified.
(I was lucky and wasn't called this time, but I'm still shaking.)
Jessica - Oct 26, 2009 10:32:32 am PDT #27988 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Fear. Fear and horror. Fear and horror and..
An almost fanatical devotion to the Pope?
tommyrot - Oct 26, 2009 10:33:30 am PDT #27989 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Was there a comfy chair?