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Time for my Australian Idol bad grammar pet peeve: SANG vs. SUNG.
It is not "I sung Somewhere Over the Rainbow before," or "my English teacher sung that to me in high school." It is sang. You can say I have sung or I had sung, but NEVER "I sung."
By the same token, you can't say "I have sang."
EVERY SINGLE CONTESTANT and EVERY JUDGE with the possible exception of Marcia Hines gets this wrong, and I yell the correct grammar at the TV every time. It's just one of those irritatingly common mistakes.
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Write down 5 things you want to know about people on your friends list. Have them post the answers in your comments and post this is their journal with 5 things they want to know about people on their friends list.
1. What's one song you couldn't live without that you don't think I have?
2. What movie are you most looking forward to?
3. If you're not from Australia, what preconceived notions do you have of this country?
4. If you are from Australia, do you have preconceived notions of other countries? Which ones?
5. What one grammar or spelling mistake do you hate the most?
OMG JOSS TOMORROW NIGHT *dies* I'm gonna take a notebook and try to take notes like at PJ's thing.
Link of the Day:chaodai made a rant post about American politics that I really, really enjoyed and agreed with.
If I just say "No urges!" do you know what I'm talking about?
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It is not "I sung Somewhere Over the Rainbow before," or "my English teacher sung that to me in high school." It is sang. You can say I have sung or I had sung, but NEVER "I sung."
By the same token, you can't say "I have sang."
EVERY SINGLE CONTESTANT and EVERY JUDGE with the possible exception of Marcia Hines gets this wrong, and I yell the correct grammar at the TV every time. It's just one of those irritatingly common mistakes.
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luna_k:Write down 5 things you want to know about people on your friends list. Have them post the answers in your comments and post this is their journal with 5 things they want to know about people on their friends list.
1. What's one song you couldn't live without that you don't think I have?
2. What movie are you most looking forward to?
3. If you're not from Australia, what preconceived notions do you have of this country?
4. If you are from Australia, do you have preconceived notions of other countries? Which ones?
5. What one grammar or spelling mistake do you hate the most?
OMG JOSS TOMORROW NIGHT *dies* I'm gonna take a notebook and try to take notes like at PJ's thing.
Link of the Day:
chaodai made a rant post about American politics that I really, really enjoyed and agreed with.If I just say "No urges!" do you know what I'm talking about?
Green Queen
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2. "The Corpse Bride," "Brokeback Mountain," "Flight Plan"
3. There is a lot of wilderness. And the Crocodile Hunter.
4. Not from Australia.
5. I once got an email that said "I was glad to HERE from you." I wanted to vomit.
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....*puppy dog eyes* please??
2. Movie, not movies! But, you know, fair enough ;)
3. Well, kind of. The whole Crodocile Hunter thing's a bit misleading, really.
5. Did you reply correcting them?!
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2. None.
3. Lots of open space.
4. n/a
5. Alright instead of all right.
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Ew, yuck. That was the most complicated answer ever.
2. Oh, that's ridiculously tough. I really want to see The Corpse Bride (because Johnny Depp is in it), Elizabethtown (because it looks adorable), and Goblet of Fire (because it's Harry Potter, come on!). So I'll go with GoF.
3. Oh wow, I'm incredibly jealous! Sydney looks absolutely beautiful (though I wish I could see some shots of something not including the opera house). The country as a whole looks fantastic, and I am completely desperate to visit!
4. N/A
5. OH MY GOD. Their vs. There vs. The're. ARGH. Drives me batshit insane. Though, "This is a picture of Becky and I" comes in a close second.
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Sorry for flooding your inbox =/
And for being completely "special" this morning.
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So many. Which is why I made you two CDs. I just need to mail them to you. Which I will do. Soon.
2. What movie are you most looking forward to?
Elizabethtown.
3. If you're not from Australia, what preconceived notions do you have of this country?
My ex-stepfather was from Australia, though he moved to the US when he was 7, so he didn't have an accent. Anyway, I knew from a young age that all of Australia wasn't like the Outback, and that Kangaroos don't just hop around the streets of Sydney. I guess the one preconceived notion I had until recently was that Australians might feel cut off from the rest of the world because of it being an island . And now I think, even if it was like that at one time, with the internet especially it isn't like that now.
4. If you are from Australia, do you have preconceived notions of other countries? Which ones?5. What one grammar or spelling mistake do you hate the most? One of my biggest pet peeves ever is when businesses spell their name incorrectly to be "clever" or "cute". Like when a 'k' is used where a 'c' should be. Arrrgh. It makes me nuts. Why would any business owner want to look illiterate?
I know what "no urges" is all about. Yep.
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5. no, because she was my future roommate, and i hadn't even met her yet.
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2. Serenity
3. None anymore, I think, we spent a couple of weeks in Australia a few years ago, so I got rid of any preconceived notion I might have had. ;-)
5. there vs. their vs. they're as well as your vs. you're - it drives me absolutely crazy!
Guess I'm even more sensitive to it since I'm not a native speaker and still tend to translate what I read or write in my head from time to time, so I can't help but notice a mistake like that rightaway!
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2- Harry Potter & the goblet of fire.
3- I am from Australia.
4- I don't really have any.
5- ahah, I know know spelling or grammer :p
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2. harry potter and the goblet of fire and brokeback mountain. who needs christmas when there are gay cowboys?!
3. i imagine you all speak with your hot hot accents while snuggling koala bears and wrestling crocodiles.
4. i'm from the US. :)
5. i think someone said this already but i think it's the wrong use of words. their and there. hear and here. c'mon people.
have fun meeting joss!! tell him my mother and i ADORE him and think he's a genius. ;)
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I wanna see Elizabethtown too! Although I read somewhere that it got less rave reviews than was hoped for :(
We actually do have kangaroos hopping around the streets of Canberra. One jumped the fence to my backyard once when I was younger.
Like Kinnetic? *g*
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Not Brokeback Mountain? I am saddened. Nah, that's cool - I'm looking forward to those movies too!
LOL the most beautiful part of Sydney *is* the part with the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.
Augh, I hate they're/their/there too!
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Serenity is SO GOOD. Guh. I love it.
Where did you visit?
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Well, I'd have been extremely surprised if you had answered anything else! ;-) I mean, not only is the song in Swedish, it also was released 10 years ago! There are simply so many great things - like spending time in Sweden and going to 14 concerts, a release party and a meet & greet in 2003 and 2004 - this song makes me think of, listening to it always makes me feel good...
BTW, if the singer and songwriter wouldn't be the male half of my favourite duo, I wouldn't know the song either, it's not like Swedish is a common language around here ;-)
Serenity is SO GOOD. Guh. I love it.
Yeah, so I've heard! I was actually really close to driving the 200something km to Munich last saturday to go to the Firefly-marathon and visit my sister. But unfortunately, they only announced on Wednesday they're not only showing 40 minutes of Serenity in addition to all episodes, but the whole movie! Too bad my sister had already decided to spend the weekend here at that time...
So no Serenity for me for now... *sighs*
Where did you visit?
Let's see, that was in 96, but I think I can still remember...
We flew into Cairns after two days or so in Hongkong (so the jetlag was not as bad and we didn't have to endure a whole day in a plane), stayed there a couple of days, did some touristy stuff like go to the Great Barrier Reef and the rainforest up North and then drove down to Brisbane (I still remember a restaurant somewhere on the Gold Coast that had an "Original Bavarian Black Forest Cake" on the menu - which was extremely amusing to us since we live right at the border to the Black Forest and we are definitely not in Bavaria! Too bad the restaurant was closed at that time, we could have given them a lesson in Geography...). From there we flew up to Darwin, drove to Alice Springs after a visit to the Kakadu National Park, went to Ayers Rock/Uluru and took another plane to Melbourne. And finally, we drove from Melbourne to Sydney where we spent a couple of days before flying back home. :-(
All in all, I think we were in Australia for about a month - which was not nearly enough (we didn't even make it to Western Australia or Tasmania and all we saw of South Australia was the airport in Adelaide from the outside when our plane had a layover there!), but since we three kids only had six weeks of summer holidays and my dad couldn't take more time off from his job, that was all we could manage! But those few days in Sydney were enough to make it one of my favourite cities, next to San Francisco, Vancouver, Stockholm and London... (yes, I seem to have thing for cities with lots of water around them *g*)
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Into the Great Wide Open (http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2I4WU4CSZOMCM29KGFWNX2LE4H)
Liquefy (The Servant. I had to). (http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0X2T90V9HRB4Y1Q14QZ1WRVOER)
Where is My Mind (http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2B6KEQDZSWHTA0X6O4OAALP0XL)
I actually really want to see Brokeback Mountain. It's just so far away! I can't think that far in advance. Guh.
IT IS SO PRETTY I just have no idea what the rest looks like! (Except Olympics footage)
Evil people with THEIR grammar.
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(btw, I adore that icon. If I get a paid account again, I'm totally adding it to my list. When I still had one, I couldn't find a reason to have 4 "funny" SW icons)