breaking news!!!!!

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:hillary accidentally banged her shin against a banister in her house and inflamed it mildly. this required taking two whole aspirins. however, she is keeping up with her punishing travel and campaign schedule. meanwhile, orangeboy left home on his plush plane to campaign in connecticut this morning where he is hoping to win by a landslide. he will return back to his gaudy, gold plated office chair by noon from whence he is expected to make shocking revelations about hillary's aspirins. he'll finish that by two pm after which he will go out to an early bird dinner at the local applebees where he is expected to have milk and cookies with melania, and bed by 5 pm, after taking out his dentures of course.

swapna wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:hillary accidentally banged her shin against a banister in her house and inflamed it mildly. this required taking two whole aspirins. however, she is keeping up with her punishing travel and campaign schedule. meanwhile, orangeboy left home on his plush plane to campaign in connecticut this morning where he is hoping to win by a landslide. he will return back to his gaudy, gold plated office chair by noon from whence he is expected to make shocking revelations about hillary's aspirins. he'll finish that by two pm after which he will go out to an early bird dinner at the local applebees where he is expected to have milk and cookies with melania, and bed by 5 pm, after taking out his dentures of course.

"return," not "return back";

"whence," not "from whence";

"gold-plated office," not "gold plated office."

Let them be whipp'd through every market town till they come to Berwick, from whence they came. — Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, 1592

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

swapna wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:hillary accidentally banged her shin against a banister in her house and inflamed it mildly. this required taking two whole aspirins. however, she is keeping up with her punishing travel and campaign schedule. meanwhile, orangeboy left home on his plush plane to campaign in connecticut this morning where he is hoping to win by a landslide. he will return back to his gaudy, gold plated office chair by noon from whence he is expected to make shocking revelations about hillary's aspirins. he'll finish that by two pm after which he will go out to an early bird dinner at the local applebees where he is expected to have milk and cookies with melania, and bed by 5 pm, after taking out his dentures of course.

"return," not "return back";

"whence," not "from whence";

"gold-plated office," not "gold plated office."

"from whence" -- if it is an error, i am happy to be in the company of graham greene.

eta: and the bard, apparently!

Let them be whipp'd through every market town till they come to Berwick, from whence they came. — Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, 1592

silvermani wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

swapna wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:hillary accidentally banged her shin against a banister in her house and inflamed it mildly. this required taking two whole aspirins. however, she is keeping up with her punishing travel and campaign schedule. meanwhile, orangeboy left home on his plush plane to campaign in connecticut this morning where he is hoping to win by a landslide. he will return back to his gaudy, gold plated office chair by noon from whence he is expected to make shocking revelations about hillary's aspirins. he'll finish that by two pm after which he will go out to an early bird dinner at the local applebees where he is expected to have milk and cookies with melania, and bed by 5 pm, after taking out his dentures of course.

"return," not "return back";

"whence," not "from whence";

"gold-plated office," not "gold plated office."

"from whence" -- if it is an error, i am happy to be in the company of graham greene.

eta: and the bard, apparently!

Let them be whipp'd through every market town till they come to Berwick, from whence they came. — Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, 1592

With "return back" also you have plenty of company. They are not eminent people, however.

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Forget about Hillary and Trump. My vote is for a leader who can spell-check the writings of the secretaries of state, defense, interior, etc.. I nominate swapna for the presidency (so that people will be forced to turn to God for saving Amrika).

silvermani wrote:

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Forget about Hillary and Trump. My vote is for a leader who can spell-check the writings of the secretaries of state, defense, interior, etc.. I nominate swapna for the presidency (so that people will be forced to turn to God for saving Amrika).

Sorry, he is disqualified

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Forget about Hillary and Trump. My vote is for a leader who can spell-check the writings of the secretaries of state, defense, interior, etc.. I nominate swapna for the presidency (so that people will be forced to turn to God for saving Amrika) 'Merica.

silvermani wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

swapna wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:hillary accidentally banged her shin against a banister in her house and inflamed it mildly. this required taking two whole aspirins. however, she is keeping up with her punishing travel and campaign schedule. meanwhile, orangeboy left home on his plush plane to campaign in connecticut this morning where he is hoping to win by a landslide. he will return back to his gaudy, gold plated office chair by noon from whence he is expected to make shocking revelations about hillary's aspirins. he'll finish that by two pm after which he will go out to an early bird dinner at the local applebees where he is expected to have milk and cookies with melania, and bed by 5 pm, after taking out his dentures of course.

"return," not "return back";

"whence," not "from whence";

"gold-plated office," not "gold plated office."

"from whence" -- if it is an error, i am happy to be in the company of graham greene.

eta: and the bard, apparently!

Let them be whipp'd through every market town till they come to Berwick, from whence they came. — Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, 1592

With "return back" also you have plenty of company.

silvermani wrote:As expected, a patently unfunny passage from the professor and this time, with glaring grammar mistakes as well. To feel better, you can watch the video of her opening a can on Jimmy Kimmel's show.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

silvermani wrote:As expected, a patently unfunny passage from the professor and this time, with glaring grammar mistakes as well. To feel better, you can watch the video of her opening a can on Jimmy Kimmel's show.

returned back is not a grammatical error. at best it's redundant.