I thought troop had meant a single person for a long time but I just looked it up and found that it comes from an Old French word meaning herd or flock so I'm going to stop using it in the singular sense on principle. A troop is made up of soldiers.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Laga - Dec 15, 2009 4:23:39 pm PST #3833 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 4:26:22 pm PST #3834 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.
A troop is made up of soldiers.
Or Boy Scouts.
Ginger - Dec 15, 2009 4:26:27 pm PST #3835 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"Completely destroyed" irritates me. Destroyed means completely gone. Then there's the misuse of literally. When someone says "it literally killed me," I can only wish that were true.
I got in my truck to go to trivia, but it wouldn't start. I have a battery charger, so I started it, but it ran rough and the lights were very dim, so after about a block, I turned around and went home. I'm afraid the truck is going to give me another expensive Christmas surprise.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 15, 2009 4:30:15 pm PST #3836 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
yeah, overuse of "literally" bugs me to no end.
I could LITERALLY CHOKE THE LIFE out of the next person I hear who uses it uncorrectly.
Laura - Dec 15, 2009 4:30:57 pm PST #3837 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Eeep, hope it is a cheap fix, Ginger. Do you have the kind of charger that you leave on all night to give it a good charge?
I think batteries have a shorter life down here. It seems like I have replaced too many of them.
Aims - Dec 15, 2009 4:34:14 pm PST #3838 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
A troop is made up of soldiers.
Or Boy Scouts.
Or Girl Scouts!!
DavidS - Dec 15, 2009 4:35:12 pm PST #3839 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
::orders up a batch of t-shirts saying, "I will CUT YOU if you misuse 'literally' in a sentence!"::
Ginger - Dec 15, 2009 4:38:52 pm PST #3840 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That would be t-shirts saying:
"I will literally cut you if you misuse literally."
DavidS - Dec 15, 2009 4:39:47 pm PST #3841 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Don't you need quotes on the second "literally"?
billytea - Dec 15, 2009 4:41:06 pm PST #3842 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My current peeve is using reign in place of rein, e.g. "he was given free reign".
The pronoun confusion isn't an issue in Chinese. They have their own wackiness, but grammar tends to be a lot easier. There's little to no declension of nouns or conjugation of verbs; most words don't even distinguish between singular and plural.