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bridgeportjake
When a page gets more than 50 posts, it gets a second (and then a third, etc.) page and at the top of each page is the note:

"This topic is comprised of pages: 1 2 ..."

Strictly speaking, this is incorrect, right? It should be "composed." Or "This topic comprises pages: ..." However, nobody cares anymore!!!

According to Dictionary.com: The traditional rule states that the whole comprises the parts and the parts compose the whole. In strict usage: The Union comprises 50 states. Fifty states compose (or constitute or make up) the Union. Even though careful writers often maintain this distinction, comprise is increasingly used in place of compose, especially in the passive: The Union is comprised of 50 states. Our surveys show that opposition to this usage is abating. In the 1960s, 53 percent of the Usage Panel found this usage unacceptable; in 1996, only 35 percent objected. See Usage Note at include.

How do board posters feel about this? Is this an example of our society Slouching toward Mediocrity? Is Outsports the reason Johnny can't read?? For god's sake, people!!!
sparty on
You have way too much time on your hands!!!

[ March 14, 2002: Message edited by: sparty on ]

MSUBobcat
This is a fun board! I'll ask you, is using the term Sit Tight we're taking you back to XXXXXXX proper grammer?

I'd have to say that I'll agree with Sparty, You have way too much time on your hands.

Have you seen "All over the guy"

Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?

George Twins fan
Forget about the War on Terror! We've got a Grammar Battle to be fought!!!
twin58
Webster's "Second International" vs. the unwashed heathens.
Jim at Outsports
We ain't gonna respond to this-that grammar thang.
MSUBobcat
ROTFLMFAO!!!!

My God Jim, You crack me up! LOL

Hukd on foniks wukd fur me!

Six months ago I coudn't even spell engineer, Now I are one.

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