The most underused two words in modern history...

Are the two words "Thank you" together.

Seems to be a lost art these days.

I hear 'thanks' left and right - and usually say 'thank you' for things bigger than 'can you give me a cookie?'.

Is it really that rare? o_O

Heh, its not that bad. But its definetly underused. I get surprised sometimes how little people use it.

guess i was brought up with better manors then most so not sure what your post is about

is it about the poor grammer and abbreviations used these days
in which case i plead guilty since i am more likely to use "thx" or "ty" than thank you

or is it more about the poor manners of "kids these days" because i may know where you are comeing from there too since my se is constantly being hammered with such requests as "hey emp" "buff me" and "buffs"

I thought you were going to say

"I'm Sorry."

Then again.....


Ah well.

Thank you.

There's of course also 'please'... but then, that's not two words in English.

or is it more about the poor manners

More about poor manners and people just really forgetting to do so.

Conquistador.

Con Queso?

I thought you were going to say

"I'm Sorry."

Thats actually 3 words ;) But they are also underused.

Personally I do use both when they're appropriate. Oftentime I am even way too much of a softie for my own good..

"I'm Sorry."

Thats actually 3 words


You are grammatically correct sir.

Quote:

Quote:
"I'm Sorry."



Thats actually 3 words


You are grammatically correct sir.

my poor grammer at work again
i figured "i'm" would still be 1 word

yeah, I believed that a contraction became one word :/

But meh!

~shonen

I guess you can see it both ways, not that it matters, heh.

Cambridge University considers a Contraction to technically be 2 words if the conraction is the result of the combination of 2 words (such as I'm, I am). Of course it considers a contraction to be one word if it is the result of the removal of letters within a single word (such as cannot, can't).

Then again, that's Cambridge. I've no Official Answer to the conundrum.

I think we can all agree that 'I'm sorry' are good words when used appropriately, regardless of how many they are.

most underused two words EVER: butt hurt

Cry more?

Want tissue!

(Stupid colds...)

Cry more?

noob lol

most underused two words EVER: butt hurt

Is that one word or two?

(Wasn't me this time, Mistryl!!)

if it was one word, the next would be "lol"

lol is getting its own slot in the dictionary soon. as is noob. pwnd has been there a while.

lawl is the new lol, noob.

really? i keep hearing "gamw" is the new LOL.

I live in Canada lol, I use those words more than you can imagine. Canadian politeness ftw

I'd have guessed "thereinafter" and "defenestration".

Thereinafter is oen word?

That's painful. o.o

how this
pneumono*ultra*micro*scopic*silico*volcano*coniosi s
real word i kid you not

edit:
sorry its pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

I'm not scared of long words - you can build infinitely long in German, it's allowed. It's just thereinafter. It makes no sense. :confused:

(Example of a long German word: Zwergenunnerfbewegungsmaskottchenswahlkommitteepra esident, meaning the president of the committee that chooses the mascot of the 'unnerf the dwarves' movement. )

I'm not scared of long words - you can build infinitely long in German, it's allowed. It's just thereinafter. It makes no sense. :confused:

It's just a regular english word, set up as there-in-after ... and means "in this whatever (text, speech, presentation, ...) and after this word"

For example: "Today the Zwergenunnerfbewegungsmaskottchenswahlkommitteepra esident, thereinafter referred to as ZuNBeMaWaKP, announced her plans to hang all Elves on their ears from the next tree. Furthermore, the ZuNBeMaWaKP wished to congratulate ..." and so on.

Ahhhh... Hmm. I suppose it's a rare word. :p

Ahhhh... Hmm. I suppose it's a rare word. :p

... and henceforthwith you know how to use it. ;)

Why is that tied into one word? I know henceworth, and I'd assume I know how it's used in conjunction with with, but I'm not at all sure how that goes together into a single word.

I'm learning a lot of new words these days. I think jkoster has done more for my vocabulary than the three final years of English I had at school.

Why is that tied into one word? I know henceworth, and I'd assume I know how it's used in conjunction with with, but I'm not at all sure how that goes together into a single word.

Because it's an old English word, from the times they used to glue together words like they Germanic ancestors did. In German, you'd translate it with an equally old "fürderhindar" ... :)

Hah, we're still doing the glueing. :p

You'd never guess that English is the third most widely used language in the world, given the way people butcher it =P

You'd never guess that English is the third most widely used language in the world, given the way people butcher it =P

it's really bad when people of the U.S. who's main language is English butcher it!