10/02 Both 101NB and 101SB exit to Embarcadero and University shows
Stanford with the top of the O blotched so that it looks like
Stanfurd. Was that done during the big game? It's pretty funny :)
I bet the wild Cal Indians did it.
\_ haha haha ha hahah. I bet you were one of those people who
were picked on a lot as a kid.
\_ who _was_
\_ No. The proper correction is "as _kids_".
\_ You're a blithering idiot -- but it's not worth the
effort to flame your egocentric ass.
\_ "those people who was..." is obviously incorrect,
therefore the latter person is correct with "as kids".
Also "you were" -> "you are", not that it's worth being
pedantic. And who's being egocentric? -pld
\_ The second person is correct. Because "of those
people" doesn't make sense standing by itself,
"who...picked on..." doesn't make sense modifying
"one". So it must modify "people", therefore the
plural. Also, "you were" should be "you are", as in
"YOU are the egocentric blithering idiot"; or "You
ARE flaming, even though you say you aren't." --pld
\_ Sentence parsed w/o prepositional phrases:
"You are one who was picked on a lot as a kid."
\_ No. Without the prepositional phrase, it is
"I bet you were one." Understand now? Your
sentence has similar sound and meaning, but it
is structurally different.
\_ Happens all the time.
\_ i've been driving by there for 3 yrs and i just noticed it for
the first time a few weeks ago... define "all the time."
\_ At least since 1989 or so. I lived in Palo Alto from
1984-1991 (when I went to Berkeley). I didn't start
driving till 1989 and so noticed it then. The sign gets
changed every so often and the "o" gets painted over soon
after. Obviously not since the beginning of time. But
more than a decade. |
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