The Grammar Thread - Fixing GenZ one TABN post at a time!

[Jim]

Please add:

'Zaz' and not 'xx', my iPhone apparently doesn't know the difference

[Jim]

How long did it take you to think up that one?

Did he order his whiskey as "whiskey" or "whisky"?

That one depends on which country you're in, like FAVOURITE and FAVORITE... COLOUR and COLOR..

[AB23]

okay this one has been bothering me for sometime now... i feel like i never had a problem with it until i started writing 20 essays a semester. and now i cant get over it.

what the FUCK is the difference between "than" and "then"??

[agny]

okay this one has been bothering me for sometime now... i feel like i never had a problem with it until i started writing 20 essays a semester. and now i cant get over it.

what the FUCK is the difference between "than" and "then"??

Usually then = time, than = comparison.

I like listening to jazz now and then. I walked the dogs and then went to the grocery store.

Usually, I like rock better than jazz.

When in doubt, http://dictionary.reference.com/

[Jim]

They're 2 different words? With 2 different meanings

Like "snow" and "cowboy"

[zazthespaz]

okay this one has been bothering me for sometime now... i feel like i never had a problem with it until i started writing 20 essays a semester. and now i cant get over it.

what the FUCK is the difference between "than" and "then"??

1st page dumbass!

[AB23]

i sing better than you.

i sing better then you.

looks like the same shit to me

[zazthespaz]

Then is used to describe chronological order so your second sentence makes no sense

[AB23]

so what if i said.

i sing better, than you

i sing better, then you.

i realize the sentence itself is shitty, but is that the chronological order type of thing youre talking about?

[zazthespaz]

The comma makes no sense in the first one it's a single thought. The second sentence makes no sense because youre not saying who/what you sing better than and there's no preceding event to say "...then you" which even then would make no sense because "you" needs an action. What it boils down to is time. If time is involved, use then.

"I went to the mall, then I went home"
"I got a haircut, then bought a tie"
"My haircut is better thAn your haircut"

[AB23]

holy tits

[zazthespaz]

holy tits

As in you get it or as in you are now more confused?

[AB23]

as in i get it but i didnt realize it was two different words. i honestly thought that the words were interchangeable. like some other words

[zazthespaz]

OMG THIS THREAD IS JUSTIFIED WE ACTUALLY TAUGHT SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!

[AB23]

ya not only that. but according to my avatar, you taught an asian. i shoo know dis stuff awweady!!

[Andy92]

They're 2 different words? With 2 different meanings

Like "snow" and "cowboy"

hahaha

[ThravRande]

I sang better than AB23.

Then AB23 took some singing lessons.

He then sang better than me.

[AB23]

why thank you.

[Macca]

Holy shit you seriously struggle with then and than? I honestly don't understand that. Even when I was 5 years old the difference between them was blatantly obvious. Fuck.

[Timotheus]

Yea, English isn't even my first language, and I never struggled with that one..