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04-05-2010, 02:24 AM
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In English, the pronoun in a prepositional phrase is ALWAYS in the accusative...
for example... "with John and me" NEVER "with John and I" "between you and me" NEVER "between you and I" "I hit the ball for him to catch" NEVER "I hit the ball for he to catch" "With John and me in charge we will succeed" NEVER "With John and I in charge we will succeed" has nothing to do with predicate or subject in this situation...any time a pronoun is governed by a preposition (i.e. a prepositional phrase) the pronoun must be the accusative in English (object pronoun). This is often confused by native speakers of English because we naturally say things like: "This is HIM" when picking up the phone. We are taught by some (usually angry) adult in about 3rd grade that we are wrong for saying that and that we should say, "This is HE", which is (of course) actually correct grammar. However, after that embarrassing lesson (which most people don't really understand) we feel unsure of ourselves whenever we say ME HIM etc....and start to substitute I and HE all over the place. This is usually wrong. In the subject predicate of a sentence English (and a number of other languages) use the nominative form of the pronoun. The subject predicate is almost always identified with a "to be" verb in English (i.e. is, was, am, etc.) So.... "This is he" is correct....NEVER "This is him" (((IS = TO BE VERB = SUBJECT PREDICATE))) "He hit him" is correct....NEVER "He hit he" (((HIT = ACTION VERB = OBJECT PREDICATE= accusative pronoun))) This concludes my free English grammar lesson...next week I will discuss the proper use of the subjunctive mood in English (a dying art which if it WERE revived would change the world)---giggle if you caught the subjunctive there. | ||
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04-05-2010, 08:06 AM
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It's Monday, can't read the article. /cry
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04-05-2010, 08:36 AM
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Is anyone worried this could draw TOO much undue attention, and get Sony jumping down our throats? I hope this isn't the case. I hope that it's an unfounded fear! Just don't want to see this awesome server get shut down.
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04-05-2010, 07:38 PM
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04-05-2010, 08:50 PM
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04-05-2010, 10:20 AM
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That is my worry too.
I am having so much fun again and I am getting attached to my game, server, and Character once again. No other MMo out since 2004 for me to do that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] If Soe did try and pull the plug, they need to pay heed to the demand there is in the EQ Orignal. Heres to hoping things continue to grow and thrive here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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04-05-2010, 11:42 AM
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They put a great question out to the public as to why sony wouldn't create their own classic server. It makes sony look pretty foolish, given that there is an obvious demand for the product.
I'd also say, and I don't mean this with any disrespect to the Devs or their great work here, but I think a lot of emulator players would prefer to play on a commercially supported live server. Yes, I know sony is the evil empire and that emulators are free...but I still think most people have a hard time getting completely comfortable in a emulator environment. (Again, I hope nobody takes this the wrong way...I don't mean to say that Rogean/Nilbog's vision and hardwork are in any way unappreciated by me or the community...I'm just commenting on how gamers feel in general--in my opinion--about playing on an emulator server.) The legality of the issue is irrelevant. If Sony wanted to they could simply file the legal suits against project1999 and, whatever legal argument we use, they would shut us down. Considering that the project has to take donations to keep servers from ddos and bad data centers I can't imagine project1999 affording to mount a legal defense against a corporation. The costs would quickly mount into the thousands of dollars before anyone even got near a courtroom. SOE could do this without so much as batting an eye...so why haven't they: Can only think of a few reasons: 1. They do not know about the project (I don't believe this). 2. They do not care about the project (They may think its cool that players are banding together to keep a game that they made popular---or they may think that the number of people involved/money lost isn't worth taking legal action). 3. They may be using it as a free way of gauging any real interest in a classic server. 4. They have a policy that unless the project charges they will not proceed into legal action (donations touch a sketchy area here if I were Sony reading the article). Anyways, it seems to me that the project is probably not at risk for legal action...I believe sony was aware of the server long before the article and they had taken no legal action thus far---so I don't think anything has happened that will change that from recent activity. I hope I'm not wrong, because I like it here a lot. | ||
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