Spoilers for Thursday 27th February 2020
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:39 pm
Great score by Ryan. Felt for Paul the returnee who would have beaten Ryan without doubt in some of his previous games.
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Spoilers for Thursday 27th February 2020
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Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:21 pm
Susie said you couldn't put the S on MUTTON, which surprised me. Perhaps restaurants don't serve it any more?
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:33 pm
I heard that but wasn't sure if she'd said that you could or couldn't and was hoping someone would bring it up so I didn't have to check on All4 (which I might not have got round to doing anyway). I think she's just plain wrong.Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:21 pm Susie said you couldn't put the S on MUTTON, which surprised me. Perhaps restaurants don't serve it any more?
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:21 am
Happy birthdayGraeme Cole wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:21 pm Susie said you couldn't put the S on MUTTON, which surprised me. Perhaps restaurants don't serve it any more?
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:51 pm
Needs 107 points today to take second seed spot. Certainly a strong chance of that. Also, he reminds me of the cameraman from Groundhog Day.
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:15 pm
I don't think the restaurant sense really works - I can't imagine saying "I'll have a beef, and my friends are having muttons"
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:41 pm
But if you were ordering, perhaps you'd say "One beef and two muttons"? And them's the rules.
I think the restaurant rule does go too far, and you get some very contrived plurals. It was brought in because words like LAGER were only given as mass nouns, which is simply a deficiency of the dictionary. LAGER in the sense of 'glass of lager' is obviously a variant meaning, and a count noun. But the dictionary has changed, and the count noun meaning is given nowadays. LAGERS doesn't need a special rule to make it valid any more. Time to get rid of the rule?
I think the restaurant rule does go too far, and you get some very contrived plurals. It was brought in because words like LAGER were only given as mass nouns, which is simply a deficiency of the dictionary. LAGER in the sense of 'glass of lager' is obviously a variant meaning, and a count noun. But the dictionary has changed, and the count noun meaning is given nowadays. LAGERS doesn't need a special rule to make it valid any more. Time to get rid of the rule?
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:12 pm
Bad example, lager is a verb anyway.David Williams wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:41 pm But if you were ordering, perhaps you'd say "One beef and two muttons"? And them's the rules.
I think the restaurant rule does go too far, and you get some very contrived plurals. It was brought in because words like LAGER were only given as mass nouns, which is simply a deficiency of the dictionary. LAGER in the sense of 'glass of lager' is obviously a variant meaning, and a count noun. But the dictionary has changed, and the count noun meaning is given nowadays. LAGERS doesn't need a special rule to make it valid any more. Time to get rid of the rule?
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:07 am
I don't get it either. Neither does it seem that the plural is something different. I thought the rule was that any noun denoting a kind of food or drink can be used as a count noun, denoting a portion of said food or drink, and therefore take a plural, and whether restaurants "serve it any more" is irrelevant. Besides, if it is releveant, how is the research conducted to determine whether restaurants "serve it any more"?Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:21 pm Susie said you couldn't put the S on MUTTON, which surprised me. Perhaps restaurants don't serve it any more?
But POTEENS has been sometimes allowed and sometimes disallowed. I see both POTEENS and MUTTONS are allowed according to tcsquared at the moment.
Re: Spoilers for 27th February 2020.
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:29 am
Is "restaurant rule" the official name of this rule? I've always been inclined to call it the "portions rule", which I think reflects its scope more accurately.David Williams wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:41 pmI think the restaurant rule does go too far, and you get some very contrived plurals.