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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
That is ridiculous. If I beat up an old lady and stole her purse, would it be incorrect for you to say, "Rupert beats up old ladies and steal their purses."?
I guess technically it shouldn't be plural if I only beat up one old lady and stole her purse. However, I would still consider the statment correct and I don't think too many would argue the semantics. I think people would get the point.
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I dunno -- do you make a habit of it, or did you do it once?
That's the difference between singular and plural nouns and verbs. The former means it happened once, the latter means it happened over and over.
So you tell me, did you beat up an old lady and steal her purse, or do you beat up old ladies and steal their purses?
Has Holder sued a state for its law or has Holder sued states for their laws?
You may think it's a minor thing and that "people would get the point," but the only point I get so far is that you're acting hysterical and feel the need to make something sound worse than it is to try to score a point. I get it. It's what you guys do, which is why I saw it coming earlier this afternoon and was shock, unsurprisingly right.