Hey guys help me with my paper

**Sjakihata** · 12-11-2006, 14:26

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

It was supposed to be a joke

I didn't write it.

It is hilariously bad I thought.

Funny. I though at first it was a joke, but then I remembered you were American and thought to myself that it might as well be real.
However, I wish I didnt spend the fifteen-twenty minutes reading and replying to that, I should have just kept to making logic excercises.

**Ice** · 12-11-2006, 17:21

Originally Posted by Sjakihata

Funny. I though at first it was a joke, but then I remembered you were American and thought to myself that it might as well be real.

Use your imagination and think of something really nasty. That would be my response, if they boards weren't PG-13.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 12-11-2006, 17:45

we may discover that perhaps his greatest quote

Is this regarded as correct use in the States? I see it a lot nowadays, and it's really wrong; quote is a verb, with quotation being the noun.

**Sjakihata** · 12-11-2006, 17:48

In English propre quotation is indeed the noun.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-11-2006, 18:03

Anyway, this is actually a paper written by a wrestler at an Ive League school. And that is sad.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 12-11-2006, 18:26

Well Sasaki, I don't know how to tell you this, but your people leaves a bit to be desired...basically it seems to be disjointed rambling that has little to do with Alcoa...

Haha! Just joking!

The current state of athletes in college is pathetic. Any and all schools will drastically lower their standards for a good player.

Funny. I though at first it was a joke, but then I remembered you were American and thought to myself that it might as well be real.

Haha! I thought this was a joke at first but then I remembered you were a foreigner who might actually be so...unacquainted with...America as to hold such a demeaning stereotype as that, though in the end such a statement reveals more about he speaker than the subject.

Crazed Rabbit

**Sjakihata** · 12-11-2006, 18:31

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Haha! I thought this was a joke at first but then I remembered you were a foreigner who might actually be so...unacquainted with...America as to hold such a demeaning stereotype as that, though in the end such a statement reveals more about he speaker than the subject.

Crazed Rabbit

Haha, I thought at first that was a joke, but then I thought you were an American who is quite unacquainted with foriegners and thinks less of them and how nuanced they are and could never really understand humor or satire.

Yes, it was a joke.

**ajaxfetish** · 12-13-2006, 02:40

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

Is this regarded as correct use in the States? I see it a lot nowadays, and it's really wrong; quote is a verb, with quotation being the noun.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, 'quote' is acceptable as a noun meaning 'quotation.' Last I checked, the OED was put out by you Brits. So it may not be correct usage in the States, but if you're writing in the UK it would seem to be okay.

[smiley included to avoid confusion of humor with potential nationalist attack]

Hmmm, it seems that dictionary.com is currently down for some reason, but my Merriam-Websters includes quote with the same noun-form definition, so I guess it's not just a British thing after all.

I'll agree with you that quotation is a much better choice as a noun in academic writing, but English is not a fixed thing. It evolves over time with usage, and any attempt to forbid new uses of words because they're not proper in the traditional sense seems to me to be just so much French wannabeism.

[smiley included to avoid confusion of humor with potential nationalist attack]

Ajax

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 12-13-2006, 03:03

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, 'quote' is acceptable as a noun meaning 'quotation.' Last I checked, the OED was put out by you Brits. So it may not be correct usage in the States, but if you're writing in the UK it would seem to be okay. [smiley included to avoid confusion of humor with potential nationalist attack]

Really? That's very interesting. My English teacher was positively draconian about using quotation as the noun, he insisted that using quote instead was evil and wrong.

**KukriKhan** · 12-13-2006, 06:16

...My English teacher was positively draconian about using quotation as the noun, he insisted that using quote instead was evil and wrong.

He was right. But... It's one of those 'slippages' or shortenings we Yanks are famous for. And since our Hollywood controls the information-dissemination apparatus (media), it's (sadly) likely to become wider-in-use, and therefore accepted, and therefore, eventually, prescribed.

English. Not your Daddy's lingo. :)

sorry