Thank you, but I'm afraid you haven't fixed the problem. It is, in fact, true that "be" cannot be used as an adverb; and it is certainly not generally regarded that "be" cannot be used as a verb (it's the single most commonly used verb in the English language, after all).

At this point, I'm not sure what exactly you meant to convey. Maybe you meant that it's generally regarded that "be" cannot properly be used as a present indicative verb without an auxiliary, e.g. "I be sick"? If so, the general public is right to think so, for the most part. I can think of one exception, though: the subjunctive mood ("if that be the case," "that every man be armed," etc.).

Or were you talking about something else?

Is there an accepted bikeforums.net convention for the serial comma? I don't want to run afoul of the usage police when posting this, that and the other.

Easily solved: just post this and that.

while i regret that i missed this thread early on, i am happy about this. if any of you ****ing mongoloids continues to **** up these very simple usage points -- i have in mind the "your"/"you're," "there"/"their"/"they're," "its"/"it's," "to"/"two"/"too," and "brake"/"break" problems -- you ****ing suck and should spend less time on the internet and more time going back to elementary school to learn how to ****ing write. you have now been educated.

But what about "the other"? If there is a redundancy convention for this forum we are all screwed.

reminds me of strongbad singing: "ooooooh, if you want to be posessive, it's just I T S, but if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's I T apostrophe S... scallawag!"

"****ing mongoloids continues"

I may (or might) be wrong, but I think you have a subject/verb agreement issue here. Elementary school rocks.

"any" can be used with either a singular or plural verb, dickface. here i am saying "if any [one] of you mongoloids." "of you mongoloids" is simply a partitive genitive expression and doesn't govern the number of the verb. grr. go back to school, fu<ktard.

Hear, hear. That was really well put. I was actually sort of moved. Just for that, I'm going to buy you a new set of Shift keys so that you can start capitalizing words properly again. No, no; don't try to talk me out of it. It's Christmas, man.

capitalization is simply a matter of formatting and, originally, emphasis. my knowledge of the language isn't predicated on whether or not i capitalize. however, knowing the difference between a contraction and a possessive is pretty damn important.

okay, i'm no longer in a bad mood this morning. i can feel my fingers again. all is well.

Dickface, fu<ktard. Nice. Next time you are in D.C., come visit me and say that ***** to my face. I promise you, it won't be pretty.

a lot is two words. I like it a lot. not 'I like it alot.'

So a southerner is attending Harvard, and it's his first day on campus. He is lost. He approaches a posh looking gent and inquires, "Y'all know where the library is at?" The posh gent sniffs and responds, "Here at Hah-vahd, we don't end our sentences with prepositions." The southerner thinks for a moment, then responds, "Oh, pardon me. Y'all know where the library is at, ass hole?"

some of my best friends are homonyms

are you seriously threatening me on the internet? you're the one who falsely called me out on using incorrect grammar. i'm sorry that you take this **** seriously.

serial comma: yes.

(also, and this particular one relates only to me, it's dolface, not Dolface, or dollface, and DEFINITElY not Dollface. thank you all.)

i <3 this thread.

oops!

"damned important," dickface.

or is the use of "damn" as a adverb so "conventional" that it's "acceptable"? well, it's not in my book. my book is pretty big, though.

:D

People who don't know the rules governing phrasal adverb hyphenation are almost as repugnant as people who think it's OK to throw around the term "mongoloid" as an epithet in mixed company.

just to be more annoying than i already have been, "damn" is an acceptable clipped form of "damned."

as for mcatano -- i cannot say that i am particularly concerned as to whether or not i offend people.

You have spirit, young man.

This has made my day.

Thank you.

Don't you mean "whether I offend people"? Grammar guy.

Thank's Terror.

Since your feeling so helpful can you help me fix the rear break on my conversion? I like too use two breaks because Im to nervous about the lockring braking.