aquajet said:
If I am not mistaken, an American President can only serve two consecutive terms.
In Canada it's four terms, however the terms are shorter.
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If I am not mistaken, an American President can only serve two consecutive terms.
In Canada it's four terms, however the terms are shorter.
maya said:I believe posting pictures with that "hand gesture" is prohibited on MR Forums.
Unless it involves photoshopping Steve Jobs, in which case, it's fine.
Actually, an American president can only serve two terms, PERIOD. Consecutive or not. (Grover Cleveland is the only President to serve non-consecutive terms... a feat which will probably never occur again given how politics works nowadays.)maya said:If I am not mistaken, an American President can only serve two consecutive terms.
In Canada it's four terms, however the terms are shorter.
The exception is if a sitting President leaves office... if that occurs and the new President (elevated VP, for example) has less than two years remaining in the existing term, that time does NOT count as a term. So, theoretically you could be President for 9 years and 364 days. These limits were made a Constitutional amendment after Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a FOURTH term in 1944... before that, it just never happened that anyone was elected President more than twice.
bousozoku said:I dislike being disoriented since I'm supposedly considered an Oriental.
(S)He did not say, disoriental. So you are all fine and dandy now.
And why do people say Chinese or Oriental Food, its Chinese or Oriental Cuisine. Same thing goes or Thai, Indian, Italian, etc....
Since when did we start eating people.
clayj said:
Sometimes I wish we had limits on the terms, John Howard's been PM since 1996 and Menzies was PM for 2 years at the start of WWII then PM again from 1949 till 1966.
Mind you, the last few elections have really been a vote for "Howard" or "some guy who just took over but you know won't last long as the leader of the party." I think most of us just went for the devil we know and voted for the Liberal (conservative - yeah, I know) party.
xsedrinam said:
Ooo I hate that one too.
So, is this a thread about the various rules and regulations underpinning the English language, or a thread proclaiming the brilliance of the English and their grammar system?
English rules!
English rules!
Well well someone is anal on MR, this is nothing new. MR tend to have alot of people on the brink of a breakdown. hope we have enough doctors here or crazy vans.
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bousozoku said:<raises hand> Thank you!
I don't understand why precision isn't important to most people.
Do not get me wrong i agree on whats going on in the thread but there is always someone anal about something. I'm sorry to announce we can not always please each other(that didnt sound right
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slooksterPSV said:
Furthermore, if you're spelling it as "alot" then you don't have your spellchecker turned on! Right-click the reply box and choose Spelling > Check Spelling as You Type
mad jew said:So, is this a thread about the various rules and regulations underpinning the English language, or a thread proclaiming the brilliance of the English and their grammar system?
English rules!
No MJ, this thread's all about you.
Well, you know it's not really, it's all about me.
It's about rules, rules, and more rules!
Discipline! Rigour! Leath ... erm ... maybe I'll just stay with rules.
Discipline! Rigour! Leath ... erm ... maybe I'll just stay with rules.
maya said:(S)He did not say, disoriental. So you are all fine and dandy now.
And why do people say Chinese or Oriental Food, its Chinese or Oriental Cuisine. Same thing goes or Thai, Indian, Italian, etc....
Since when did we start eating people.
So can we eat Occidental Cuisine?
Historical, Oriental comes Latin which means of "the east". When the Roman Empire broke up, it was divided into the Occident and Oriental Empires which means Orientals where from Eastern Europe to about the Near East and I think North Africa. In Spanish they still call Eastern Europe, "Europa Oriental". For English speakers Oriental means Near East to Far East, and perhaps have negative meaning for some non-westerners depending on where you were born. Ironically, in English we don't call westerns or western things occidental(s). The term "Asian" which probably comes from Greek, ????, and was used by Herodotus to describe Asia Minor. I believe Asian is a better descriptive word to describe people from the Near to Far East, and it won't offend anyone.
2nyRiggz said:Do not get me wrong i agree on whats going on in the thread but there is always someone anal about something. I'm sorry to announce we can not always please each other(that didnt sound right
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No worries. I find that there is always a difference between people and, even if they both speak perfect English, doing so with different accents will cause someone to complain. I'm not concerned about perfection, but I'm concerned about precision. (If someone doesn't get the difference there--you're my target.
)Jaffa Cake said:
Someone from Yarkshar?
I agree, with the proviso that the degree of perfection I expect depends on the audience (I try to get everything right, for example, in commercial correspondence and when I present reports to company directors ... I don't worry too much about personal emails)bousozoku said:... I'm not concerned about perfection, but I'm concerned about precision. (If someone doesn't get the difference there--you're my target.
Wow!
People really do have that much free time eh? Do you have such easy and perfect lives that something like this is important?
It seems like you must have perfect jobs, perfect homes, perfect family that are never ill or needy. Because if you don't surely worrying about those things is more important.
People really do have that much free time eh? Do you have such easy and perfect lives that something like this is important?
It seems like you must have perfect jobs, perfect homes, perfect family that are never ill or needy. Because if you don't surely worrying about those things is more important.
Aye, lad. Although I don't have a whippet, but I think Kes is a classic...bousozoku said:Someone from Yarkshar?
I have to congratulate all of you. You have done a wonderful job of taking what I thought would be a dead thread and making it into a 2 page discussion after a few hours. I posted it thinking people would bash it, of course. I do admit I don't have the best of grammatical skills, but I try. [I were born in a US and still don't not know how to spelt them their words.] Hehe. Congrats, and thanks for fixing my grammar in my first post.
You're all lucky you only have to read what I'm trying to tell you. I actually sound like Ali G when I speak.
Yeah......so consider yourselves lucky.
Yeah......so consider yourselves lucky.