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- jthei, on 11/05/2009, -4/+141What does YOU knows about Englishes?
- BigBambino, on 11/05/2009, -2/+92Why do head a-splode when read title?
- AlDaTbagsNChina, on 11/05/2009, -5/+81*What does
Fixed it for you - boo3710, on 11/05/2009, -2/+77Is our children learning?
- idarkiswordi, on 11/05/2009, -1/+61Google do know a lot about me and what I search for. Good thing this dashboard do everything I need it to so I can be more private.
- mengland, on 11/05/2009, -3/+62Google know much. I bring fire. Oog.
- Snoogs, on 11/05/2009, -2/+56How are google formed?
- wigen1jt, on 11/05/2009, -1/+24Do Google know everything?
- xmzx, on 11/05/2009, -2/+22Google dided this a long time a while.
- boardthis, on 11/05/2009, -0/+15DAMMIT JESUS! THIS ARE BRITISH, NOT CHINA!
- ftc08, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14Someone set us up the typo.
- goobly, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13Where is syntaxgs when you need him?
- zephc, on 11/05/2009, -5/+17The Birts just do it wrong. Corporations are singular entities, therefore the single-person case should be used. If Google was 1 employee, would the British still refer to it in the multiple-person case?
- lnxfi, on 11/05/2009, -2/+14I would really hate to be the guy who analyzes what people search for. At first, it would probably be really funny, then scary, then depressing... and most likely ending with you never wanting to come in contact with another person because you are pretty sure that was the guy who was trying to find out how to get something out of his anus without having to go to a hospital.
- hivoltage815, on 11/05/2009, -0/+10I disagree with your argument. Both "Google do know" and "Tool are amazing" are grammatically wrong in all circumstances because Google and Tool are single entities. You cannot just imply that you are referring to a group of individuals, you have to qualify it (For example: What do the employees of Google know about you? The members of Tool are amazing"). Otherwise it would be okay to say "The group are really good" because you are talking about the members that make up the group; and we all know that is not okay.
- boardthis, on 11/05/2009, -2/+12i'm really surprised the brits didnt try to throw a u in there.
gougle - biggly, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9Why thank you Buzz Killington.
- JesusHimself, on 11/05/2009, -2/+11Engrishes*
- Misterberu, on 11/05/2009, -1/+10I bet THEY know how Babby is formed.
- TSK05, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9Writing story titles.
- openandshut, on 11/05/2009, -3/+11Why do Google know so much?
- FluffyArmada, on 11/06/2009, -0/+7Some countries treat collective nouns differently. American English treats them like the singular. British English treats them like the plural or the singular depending on whether you want to emphasize the group of people or the group as a single entity.
- v4vishal, on 11/05/2009, -2/+9In his defense, spionkopred is from UK.
- drshorty, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6No, not quite. Wiki states quite clearly that it depends on whether the emphasis is on the individuals of a body or the body as a whole.
In the context of the Digg headline, it makes absolutely no sense that there are several individual employees at Google who are watching you. Google collectively has a lot of information, but you will probably find no individual employee at Google who actually knows anything about you. Google as a company knows you, Google as a bunch of employees *do* not.
This is why it drives me insane when people argue that it's British English, and yet still get it wrong contextually. - Lleu, on 11/05/2009, -2/+7Childrens do learn!
- spionkopred, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5Thank you, although I did switch to singular noun in the description. My bad :-)
- Giac, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4WTF does comunism have to do with it. If you don't like google go try bing....the video search is great for porn
- boardthis, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4not a typo, u tallywagger.
- zephc, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3"Google IS great. THEY make good applications."
You may think you are referring to the corporation in that case, but you're really referring to a subsection of its whole - its developers. Compare/contrast with 'Google (singular, i.e. the corporate entity) owns product X' - zephc, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4Colonel Friedrich von Bratwurst of the Grammar Nazi Army cares!
- Zain123, on 11/05/2009, -2/+5Wow, adith is right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_ ...
Now I feel foolish. - zadadka, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4For those of us who think ourselves "intenet savvy", probably not too much ... but then I bet we'd all be suprised (if not startled) to learn how much Google Analytics can string togther about us...and link-in any other (previously thought anonymous) identities we hold online.
Think : If your Home Page is Google, then Google know to which page you go next....every time....even anonymizers can't escape statistics.
For those of us that are less than "internet savvy", that revelation will probably prove to be quite a scary one.
And to think, people so concerned about CCTV's "intrusion" into personal lives.....if only they knew how increasingly "bagged and tagged" (by someone) we all really are...almost with every click. - diulei, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4The Brits do it wrong? Explain to me then, why the following sentences are spoken this way in North American English:
Google IS great. THEY make good applications.
Not trying to say who is right or who is wrong, but for sure the North American way is inconsistent - it changes from the third person singular to plural. This coming from an American. - amcsi, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Dugg for the comments
- js281, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2http://www.google.com/privacy_faq.html
- CaviMike, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Not much.
- Skootles, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2-golf clap-
- erichw1504, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2Where did Goggle knew about your?
- adith, on 11/05/2009, -11/+13Sigh. Guys, the title is correct in British English. I'm an American too, so, indeed, it sounds strange to me as well, but collective nouns, like Google, are often treated as plurals, even though they're not in American English. Okay? (And, yes, I know the Guardian, a British paper, didn't treat it as plural.)
- drshorty, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3It is still incorrect for British, unless you can somehow argue that many individuals at Google are independently keeping track of your information. In this instance we are talking about Google as a single entity, not the individuals as members of such, which is when you would use a plural.
- veriix, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Once google starts making suggestions on what to search for based on our search history we're all screwed.
- Atario, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2*googgle
- vanisherx, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2All your base are belong to us?
- rolf, on 11/05/2009, -2/+4Too much.
- Ezrayan, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3why would you make the same comment twice?
- tvharddrive, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2Donts knock posters edubucation. Who R U 2 Judge.
- brim4brim, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1I imagine so but do people regularly refer to you by your IP address?
Realistically that information is most likely stored to help catch people looking up child porn. - mjsilva, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Already do I guess...
- erkokite, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1They need a way to instain mother
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