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I'm not very good with spelling, but I'd like to find out, how many grammatical mistakes are in this slogan: One day we live, one day we die, today we drive !
Oh, and it's not made by me, I don't like it at all.. just want to prove it isn't correct :).
Nothing wrong with spelling so far as I can see.
as for grammar...
"One day we live, one day we die; today we drive!"
only thing I've done to that is the addition of speech marks "" and move the exclamation right next to the last letter - there's no space. Also the use of a semicolon ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3B
Asking "English" members for spelling help!!????
You're gunna end up with a bunch of superfluous "u"s ! :p
The tense and meaning are confused.
"one day" either refers to past (One day we have lived) or the future (one day we will live) or neither (We live for one day).
The same applies for "today we drive".
Does it mean "we are driving today" or "we will drive today".
Just "one day we live" is very informal English.
Perhaps not wrong, but it certainly confused. You can get away with that if you want to say it is poetically ambiguous.
The ambiguity may be on purpose... The intention (I believe) is to elevate the act of driving in importance to that of living or dying.
If that is the intention of the phrase, I think it would be better as
"Some days we live, some days we die, but today we drive!"
The ambiguity may be on purpose... The intention (I believe) is to elevate the act of driving in importance to that of living or dying.
If that is the intention of the phrase, I think it would be better as
"Some days we live, some days we die, but today we drive!"
Close, but you can't really die on more than one day.
Perhaps: "Some days we live, one day we die, but today we drive!".
Another problem is that we don't live "some days" we live on every day. If we are dead then there is no "we".
Is "Every day we live, one day we die, but today we drive!" any better?
Now there is the complication that that you can't really drive without living as well.
How about: "Every day we live, one day we die, today we drive!"
Almost there. Now we just need to make the sentence structure more formal.
"Every day we live, one day we will die; today we shall drive!"
Now it is good English, but poor literature. All the poetic meaning is gone.
I think the best way is to say: "One day we live, one day we die, today we drive !" ;)
Sailor Steve
02-01-08, 11:02 AM
I think Jumpy and Letum are both correct. The meaning mildly ambiguous, and either the comma or semicolon can be used. The space does have to be removed before the exclamation point, however.
And as to StdDev's comment, I'm amazed at the poor English displayed by some natives of both Britain and America here. It makes me wonder if they went to school at all.
Jimbuna
02-01-08, 05:17 PM
I agree with Letum :yep:
I wonder what STEED would make of it though :hmm: :lol:
I wonder what STEED would make of it though :hmm: :lol:
The English language is constantly being changed by who?
For my money, Klingon is the best lanuage as it's so gritty and up front no BS. ;)
Knipper
02-01-08, 07:12 PM
I think this whole thread is a waste of time. It's easy to raise 'questions' from a piece of connived text. But it's a bit like tongue twisters, deliberately designed to disorientate. It don't have much to do with the way wot English is speaked tho. Knowworrimean? Still, I guess it gives happy ole farts like Steed (bless 'im) something to moan about. :rotfl: Go for it Steed, tell 'em what's what.
I think this whole thread is a waste of time. It's easy to raise 'questions' from a piece of connived text. But it's a bit like tongue twisters, deliberately designed to disorientate. It don't have much to do with the way wot English is speaked tho. Knowworrimean? Still, I guess it gives happy ole farts like Steed (bless 'im) something to moan about. :rotfl: Go for it Steed, tell 'em what's what.
Jeeeeeeze... whos learned yous ta talk? :p
Knipper
02-02-08, 06:47 AM
Jeeeeeeze... whos learned yous ta talk? :p
Well achully, I was brung up in Brummigem:88) aka the wonderful English city of Birmingham.:p
I think this whole thread is a waste of time. It's easy to raise 'questions' from a piece of connived text. But it's a bit like tongue twisters, deliberately designed to disorientate. It don't have much to do with the way wot English is speaked tho. Knowworrimean? Still, I guess it gives happy ole farts like Steed (bless 'im) something to moan about. :rotfl: Go for it Steed, tell 'em what's what.
Hey watch your lip, less of the old fart thank you. :stare:
Middle aged fart is alright. :p :rotfl:
Hey watch your lip, less of the old fart thank you. :stare:
Middle aged fart is alright. :p :rotfl:
I tell my students that I was born during the Eisenhower administration and you can see them trying to work out if that was before or after the Civil war. :lol:
Jimbuna
02-02-08, 12:45 PM
I wonder what STEED would make of it though :hmm: :lol:
The English language is constantly being changed by who?
For my money, Klingon is the best lanuage as it's so gritty and up front no BS. ;)
Klingon language it be :lol:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/klingon.htm
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/387/st1klingonpc3.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Knipper
02-02-08, 08:14 PM
I think this whole thread is a waste of time. It's easy to raise 'questions' from a piece of connived text. But it's a bit like tongue twisters, deliberately designed to disorientate. It don't have much to do with the way wot English is speaked tho. Knowworrimean? Still, I guess it gives happy ole farts like Steed (bless 'im) something to moan about. :rotfl: Go for it Steed, tell 'em what's what.
Hey watch your lip, less of the old fart thank you. :stare:
Middle aged fart is alright. :p :rotfl:
Sorry Kaptn Steed, middle-aged fart it is :D
Knipper
02-02-08, 08:20 PM
Hey watch your lip, less of the old fart thank you. :stare:
Middle aged fart is alright. :p :rotfl:
I tell my students that I was born during the Eisenhower administration and you can see them trying to work out if that was before or after the Civil war. :lol:
I tell people I was born the year Queen Elizabeth took the throne, and they look at me and say, was that Queen Elizabeth the 1st or the 2nd? :p :p
kiwi_2005
02-02-08, 08:26 PM
I'm not very good with spelling, but I'd like to find out, how many grammatical mistakes are in this slogan: One day we live, one day we die, today we drive !
Oh, and it's not made by me, I don't like it at all.. just want to prove it isn't correct :).
No no no! this is the correct way!
One day we live, one day we die, WE ARE SPARTA!!!!
;)
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