OT An old site revisited

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

I'm sure this has got harder as I used to average level 53 (with one
heady day getting to 57) and now I'm hovering around 47. Or maybe
being stuck at home is atrophying my brain.

Anyway, they've now got sub sections

http://www.freerice.com/subjects.php?t=23742099540

and apparently I don't know my fanous paintings as well as I thought,
I keep ending back on level 3.

I can see I've lost the rest of this evening on this, so thought I'd
share. Plus think of the warm glow you'll get from doing good.

 

Yeah but you already knew I was brighter than you.

<wanders off whistling>

 

Hmm quite good! but I cheated I suppose by choosing the Periodic table
and such so I'm not quoting numbers.

English vocab - Augean. They play hard ball! The 5th labour but I've
never heard the word applied.

 

I'm crap at the Periodic table, there's obviously a reason I got a U
in O level Chemistry.

I think some of their definitions are a bit iffy in places. Knowing a
bit about Latin and Greek roots certainly helps, as does a basic
smattering of medical knowledge.

 

Heh, I got to level 7 on famous paintings first go - then rapidly
slipped back to 1. If you keep going long enough it becomes a bit of a
memory test, plus it also teaches 'style of' ("once you've seen one
Seurat").

Must get SWMBO on it!

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49 but, once again, keep going long enough and memory comes in to play.

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I'd vote #2 because you've just told me #1 is incorrect. If that's
not a good reason then I don't know what is.

 

I vote #1.

Better than:

"Jane or I is going to do that."

But consider:

"Jane or John is going to do that."

It would certainly be:

"Jane *and* I are going to do that."

Wwaits for grammar experts to give correct explanation>

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Because you don't say 'I are going to do that'.

 

The website is correct. Only one person will do "that" therefore it
requires the singular. The last mentioned was "I" so the sentence takes the
form "Jane [is going to do that] or I am going to do that".

 

#3 = "Jane or I will do that."

 

Usenet. Where everyone's a genius.

 

#4 = "I will do anything, but I won't do that."

 

SWMBO got quickly to 10 with just one wrong on the way. But so she
bloody well ought to.

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Which only "works" because the 1st and 3rd person conjugations happen to
be the same, but certainly it sounds better than the other 2.

 

Well, i just fed a few skinnies

 

Summat about whippets

 

They're not. 'I shall' or 'she will' is a prediction.
'I will' or 'she shall' is a statement of intent.
Two different verbs.
See Chambers Guide to Grammar and Usage, p107.
****! I seem to be turning into Des.

 

Are you saying that there are verbs 'to will' and 'to shall'?

 

Strictly, there are:

Will: As auxiliary of the future tense with implication of intention
or volition (thus distinguished from SHALL v. B. 8, where see note).
a. In 1st person: sometimes in slightly stronger sense = intend to,
mean to.

Shall (inter alia): In the first person, shall has, from the early
ME. period, been the normal auxiliary for expressing mere futurity,
without any adventitious notion. (a) Of events conceived as
independent of the speaker's volition. (To use will in these cases
is now a mark of Scottish, Irish, provincial, or extra-British
idiom.)

OED. QED.