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"Can I not talk!?" (girl shouting - been on telly advertising a clip of some love island thing)
Shouldn't that be "Can I talk?" or "Can't I talk?"
This "Can I not talk!?" is making me think if I don't understand English or is this a cool way of speaking?
Do you guys say that? i.e. "Can I not talk?"
"Can i not talk?" is perfectly correct, or rather i can be dunno about the case you describe.
It means "is not talking an option for me?"
"Can't" is a contraction if you expand it, it's clearly not correct.
"Cannot i talk?"
So in somethingion... Maybe you don't understand English? Which makes you about as British as it gets, well done 🙂
somethingion
I didn't type that. I typed s u m m a t i o n.
birthed -as in when i was birthed. ive no idea where that came from
Going forward can do one
horseshit- the smart form of bullshit?
I like somethingion! Im a somethingion! thats my pronoun!
I'd never heard "outwith" before I joined this forum and until yesterday I'd never seen it in use anywhere else. One of my colleagues is off on a jolly to Scotland and work have put him up in a very nice hotel who have used it on their website.
Imagineering.
Solutionize.
Oftentimes
"Can I not talk?"
I don't know, can you cannot talk? I'm not sure if you can cannot. or something. 😆
Oftentimes
I don't ever say it, but I'm not seeing why "sometimes" is ok and "oftentimes" is not?
"ofttimes" is a word. A bit archaic now but still occasionally used. Meaning "often"
birthed -as in when i was birthed. ive no idea where that came from
Not common, but I’ve seen it used before.
Oftentimes
Should be Oftimes, again not that common, but I do see it used reasonably often.
In the round
That has a specific meaning in performance art, where the performers are on a stage in the middle of the venue, while the audience sits or stands all the way around the stage. I’ve been to a couple of gigs performed ‘in the round’, which made it abundantly clear what the performance would be like. One was Peter Gabriel, where the circular stage actually rotated, sometimes in opposite directions! Gabriel was riding a Moulton bike, riding in one direction, while members of the band were walking in the other, while actually staying in one location.
but I'm not seeing why "sometimes" is ok and "oftentimes" is not?
Oftentimes means often. Sometimes does not mean some. Hth.
Oftentimes whist archaic English is mainly a creeping Americanism which I hear a lot and which I find annoying. Ofttimes I don't think is in common usage.
Oftimes is archaic but it the correct word and still in occasional use. I have never heard oftentimes
Oftentimes whist archaic English is mainly a creeping Americanism which I hear a lot and which I find annoying.
Really? I've only ever heard it used by Americans. I find it entirely unobjectionable.
Really? I've only ever heard it used by Americans.
It's used on this thread. Not by me. Listen out. You will hear it a bit.
Either of
- Intellectual; or
- Expert
Where it is being used as an insult on social media to fail to make or avoid making a coherent counterpoint. Use in this manner will typically be by someone.
- Whose idea of reasoned debate is only allowing posts that agree with them and to insult and harangue anyone who does not
- Will not respond to evidence, facts or figures except to proclaim them lies (probably of the establishment or some variation of elites) and that you should do some proper research (i.e. weird conspiracy YouTubers or "auditor", who might fit the definition of self proclaimed experts).
- Who considers simply being able to write a reasoned argument in clear English with punctuation and a modest number of capitals some kind of intellectual one-upmanship.
Sometimes (but not oftentimes) prefixed with "self proclaimed".
Ban to extend into afterlife where the person on the receiving end did not in fact claim to be either of those things.
And no I've not been on the receiving end but has been quite prevalent in the flag waving posts (and related unpleasantness) across FB and LI these last few weeks.