I recall Ms Dawn, my english teacher from CHEC telling me about this before... well now I know.
GIVE ME BACK MY ESSAY MARKS!!!
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cannot versus can not
There is a grammatical misunderstanding common to many U.S. Americans, largely because we learned about grammar in the either/or terms of right vs. wrong. Here's the misunderstanding: can not or cannot? My public school teachers said can not was the correct form, and that cannot was a corruption. A friend of mine from a previous generation was taught the opposite. Her son, much better at using the language than either of us, said both were right, but usage depended on context.
Here's the explanation: If I can not do something, then I can also do it. I can not write these words if I choose (and you may think I shouldn't), but I also can, and am, writing them. What I cannot do is know who will read them, or what they will think. I can imagine such things, but I'm limited by my experience and perceptions. So this is the rule: if you either could or could not do something, then you use two words, because you can leave out the second word if you so choose. If you could not do something no matter how much you desired or tried, then you use one word, cannot. There is no other option.
Sometimes both are true. Witness:
I cannot change the world.
I can not change the world.
It's true, I cannot change the world. What I mean, and what many mean when they say or think this to themselves, is that the world's problems are too big for any one person, or group of people, to take on. Poverty, sickness, hatred, love, weather, earthquakes, political and religious differences—these are inevitable conditions. Even Jesus said, "the poor you will have with you always," and, "Let the dead bury the dead."
It's also true that I can change the world. I, and every other person on the planet, can make a difference. We can give to the poor, and try to cure ourselves of the sickness of wealth (more on that later). We can be courteous, we can provide emotional (listening) or physical (assisting) or financial (donating) help to others, we can feed and help and forgive each other. (More about forgiveness later, too.) We can take in an abandoned dog or cat and give it love. We can plant a garden. We can put in a day's work and know we earned our pay, and someone, hopefully, was the better for it. We can not cut off someone in traffic. We can dedicate our lives to healing. We can dedicate our lives to loving our family and community. We can respect the differences of others. In other words, what we can do, we can do.
OH MY FUKING GAWD THERE'S A VOCAL SONG FOR PERSONA 2'S MAIN THEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS REAL GOOD!!!
A cantonese-speaking, taekwondo-trained foreigner, a blue haired narcissist gang leader who sounds and looks extremely gay and a silent, cool-looking protagonist (this one's a bit stereotypical).
Gotta love the cast from Persona 2.
It's simply awesome.
NOSEBLEED!!! \(= q =)/
This scantily-dressed babe came in last night while I was working (the dress she wore was so short it was hardly a dress) and bought a bottle of green tea.
Upon payment... she smiled and took out a $2 note from...
From............................ HER FREAKING BRA.
JESUS CHRIST @__@
And so Jason had both the liberty and pleasure of sniffing it to his heart's content... LOLOLOLOLMAO (You know I'm only kidding :p)
Hell, that was the ecchiest thing that ever happened in reality.
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Now words can not describe the sheer disinclination I feel at the notion of school commencing next week.
Fuk this shit goddamnit *__*
六三三三,五九九六。
在念一遍。
六三三三五九九六。
你的名?
哈?我的名?我叫 Jackson。
Jack-son?
你的名字叫 Rocky 啊?
怎么你的 Christian name 好象很怪这样?
你是给真名还是假名?
那里有真名这样子的名的?
你名字很有趣 leh。
你-
我的名字-
你篇我的-
没有,我给你的是 first name。
哈?
是 first name 啊,大哥。
那里有 Christian name 是叫。。。那里有 Christian name 叫 Rocky 这种名的?
我懂你根本是在篇人的。
没有啦,你是我朋友,我哪里可以篇你?
改天发工钱我请你吃饭。
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Yes that's my hysterical laughter xD
This is a 7-11 inside joke, so Leonard and Alan are the only ones who probably understand what It's all about.
I have a whole lot of other hilarious recordings which I won't be posting up since I'm too lazy to edit the pauses and things like that.
My favourites... this:
Jason: 你吃饭了吗?
Jackson: 为什么要吃饭?为什么不能吃面?
And:
Jason: 我之前是从精神病院出来的;他们看我表现好把我放了,每次得回去检查一下,哈哈哈。
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You had to be there XD
Nostalgia gripped me when I heard this; It's only been a year and I'm already missing MMZX... wow.
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