Grammatical Debate

Alex UK · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:06

gamer_boy said:
You're brilliant. Were you cheating?

Irony at its best.

To be fair I think he was taking the ****.

FrostedNipple · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:06

gamer_boy said:
You're brilliant. Were you cheating?

Irony at its best.

wooooooshhh

SpaghettiOs · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:07

Fair enough. Point made. Clearly I'm too expectant of bad grammar.

tibbsey · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:14

Conscript said:
Opposite.

You lend something to someone.
You borrow something from someone.

Definitely.

Used to know someone who did the same.
Confused the hell out of me the first couple of times, after which it just annoyed the hell out of me.

Steve2000 · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:19

It is impossible to lend something from someone. Borrowing is the word here.

I wouldn't invite him round any more, sounds like a right tit to be honest.

Fido McNasty · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:30

Alex UK said:
To be fair I think he was taking the ****.

Me ? Never!

N9ne · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:50

Give him an English test given to 6 year olds, and tell him it's actually taught at some schools to 16 year olds. Then scan the results and post on the internet for profit and win.

A.N.Other · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:52

Your right. I fail to see how he can argue the other way :/

CrazySpeaker · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:55

You are correct. You borrow from somebody, and lend something to somebody else.

Raymond Lin · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:59

This thread is full of win

semi-pro waster · 26 Mar 2009 at 23:06

Raymond Lin said:
This thread is full of win

This thread is full of something all right, I'm not sure if win is quite what I'd describe it as.

FrostedNipple: Are you really going to point your friend in the direction of this thread and claim you are right? You are right in this instance but I'd hardly be surprised if he argued that a forum isn't exactly conclusive proof.

gillywibble · 26 Mar 2009 at 23:09

Raymond Lin said:
This thread is full of win

And appalling grandma.

kylew · 26 Mar 2009 at 23:15

tuffty747 said:
If I think correctly, you borrow something off of someone, and they lend you it, can't be the other way around.

I think

Oh noes! *facepalms*

It really should be illegal to say 'off of'

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Think of when you're getting a loan from the bank

The bank is the lender

You are the borrower.

Mr.Clark · 26 Mar 2009 at 23:29

FrostedNipple said:
"James came round to lend the film."

Even if your friend was the one who ended up with the film, that's still not a particularly well put together sentence.

Mr Doovde · 26 Mar 2009 at 23:47

Also, isn't this debate more inclined towards semantics rather than grammar? Despite the incorect use of word meaning, as long as you both understood what was meant, then surely that should suffice? Or is it simply a case of who has the biggest...?

Vonhelmet · 26 Mar 2009 at 23:56

The grammar is just fine.

The semantics in question are horrible.

EDIT: Ha, just seen the post above mine.

manveruppd · 27 Mar 2009 at 00:24

Technically true: it's not a grammatical debate, it's a lexicographical one. But in this case the grammar is ALSO wrong cause it should've been "James came round to lend ME the film" or "James came round to have the film lent to him"

/pedant

Mr Doovde · 27 Mar 2009 at 00:38

Well, in terms of "James came round to lend the film.", isn't the grammar i.e. the sentence structure acceptable?

Is it not rather the semantics expressed in the verb 'lend' that is incorrect, for the verb 'borrow' was the intended meaning?

Dogoid · 27 Mar 2009 at 01:03

were does ' loan ' fit in this 2 page nerdgasm ?

Mattus · 27 Mar 2009 at 05:03

I hope your friend is never trusted with a large sum of money if he doesn't know the difference between lending and borrowing. How can you not know that? It's like not knowing the difference between buying something and selling it.