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Anonymous Tue Sep 27 21:51:56 2011 No.2105644 [Reply] [Original]

what does /lit/ think of daniel pinkwater?

inb4 no replies, you've probably never heard of him

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 21:53:56 2011 No.2105649 God Bless You Mr. Pinkwater

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:45:56 2011 No.2105760 I used to read him when I was 10, but I sorta stopped once school started and forgot about him.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 23:38:56 2011 No.2105822 I love that picture of one of the all-time great, iconic, truly subversive popular American authors kicking it with Kurt Vonnegut

Anonymous Tue Sep 27 23:44:56 2011 No.2105833
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>you've probably never heard of him
He's a lauded and widely published children's author. Of course we've heard of him. You are either retarded or a horribly misinformed hipster.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 23:51:56 2011 No.2105840 File: 19 KB, 320x239, st3234.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2105833 oh yeah, riddle me this: if this guy is so famous and /lit/ already knows about him, then how come your fucking gay?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 00:07:56 2011 No.2105864 >>2105840 How come my fucking gay, what?

VelvetCrow !0kY4lKysPM Wed Sep 28 00:20:56 2011 No.2105880
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>>2105840

Your

Your is the second person possessive adjective, used to describe something as belonging to you. Your is nearly always followed by a noun.

What is your name?

Is this your pen?

Your book is on the table.

This is your chair and this is mine.

What happened to your dog?

Your being here is causing some problems.

You're

You're is the contraction of "you are" and is often followed by the present participle (verb form ending in -ing).

You're going to be late.

Is that what you're wearing?

I think you're lying.

If you're ready, we can go.

I can't believe you're a doctor!

When you're my age, you'll understand.

The Bottom Line

The confusion between your and you're occurs because the two words are pronounced pretty much the same.

The ironclad rule - no exceptions - is that if you're able to replace the word with "you are," you're saying you're. Otherwise, your only choice is your.

Related difficulties:

apostrope s
its vs it's
their, there, they're
yours vs your's
Source: http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/youryoure.html

Also, gay is not a derrogative word.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 01:01:56 2011 No.2105920 >>2105880 gay

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 01:04:56 2011 No.2105926 File: 19 KB, 435x397, 12412312123121.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2105920 Note the appropriate usage of 'you're' in this picture.

The Real Livingstone !9ny7iQxqW6 Wed Sep 28 17:31:56 2011 No.2107103

My absolute favorite children's book author. Read the shit out of all his stories when I was younger. My favorite's gotta be either The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, or the longer one about the Lizards. I forget the exact title of the book about the lizards. It was a while ago, man, but that story and his others definitely helped contribute to my surreal sense of humor. One of the all-time greats, good thread OP!

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Anonymous Wed Sep 28 17:45:56 2011 No.2107122

The NPR biographical short I heard tried to bill him as some kind of erary litbadass, but he struck me as their typical, mealy mouthed, milquetoast little faggot.

A humorist that isn't funny. An essayist with no salient points. A children's writer to to bore even the most laconic child.

A waste of oxygen.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 17:48:56 2011 No.2107125 >>2107122 Good grief, those are some barbed words if ever i saw some.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 18:29:56 2011 No.2107164 You're right. I've never heard of him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 18:35:56 2011 No.2107171 Loved his books as a kid (>>2107103, you're thinking of Lizard Music) and have been meaning to reread some of them as an adult. He's one of the few writers I liked back then whose books I really expect to hold up if I were to read them again today.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 18:38:56 2011 No.2107180 >>2107110 >plate of brown liquid >holding knife

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