Que me getting definately irate.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargggghhhhhhhhhhh. Recently there has been a propensity to write que instead of cue in threads on this here MN. It's driving me insane. We are defin i tely not amused.

And there's me thinking this was a definite one...

Is one allowed to mention that a gerund is a noun?

I've seen a stack of random spellings of cue, including queue.

Which begs the question, what do people think that cue means? Or do people just accept nonsensical phrases without considering their meaning?

DefinAtely has been a long-standing irk of mine too captain - que me (I mean, WTAF?) going a little bit bonkers when I see it.

:o QueenEdith apologies for my having got that wrong. :o

I thought you were very clever to get so many things into so short a title

Yes, that's what it was. >>nods sagely

Hello kind pedants, could you explain the gerund thing please? I'd like to learn something this morning .

Yes, it's rediculous.

Que?

Gerunds are forms deriving from verb which function as nouns: they always end in 'ing' and they only exist in the singular. They should not be confused with a few ordinary nouns ending in 'ing', which can be plural

So, in 'I could not explain my feeling so strange' "feeling" is a gerund (no likely synonym).

But in: 'My feelings in this are very strong' "feeling" is an ordinary noun (synonym for emotion).

And there's also the really confusing gerundive!

So the 'getting'bit of the title is a gerund?

So the post about a gerund is a noun is....?

Thank you! So the (fully corrected) title should have been 'Cue my getting definitely irate'?

I can hear it as a single word, e.g. Apologies for my snoring, but it sounds strange when it's a full phrase, e.g. Apologies for my having got that wrong.

I guess it's one of those things where I've heard the incorrect version so often it sounds right.

Morris, I think that's it. People just re-hash things they hear other people saying with no real idea what it all means.

I'm normally very pedantic when it comes to the gerund too, but somehow got confused here and was so focused on the 'que' and the 'definately' that I missed it. Shame on me.

:o

"Definitely" is a source of one of my insane "oh my God I can't actually spell anymore I'll have to look it up what a fool I am" moments. I have the same problem with "embarrassment". However I type it it looks wrong.

I sometimes come across 'defiantly' being used as 'definitely'.

Takes a few readings to work it out.

That would be defiantly funny :o

' I am defiantly leaving the bastard!'

that works