“Well, Apple isn’t standing still either boys-and-girls and yesterday the USPTO published yet another round of new highly sophisticated multi-touch panel patents that will reverberate in the war rooms of Apple’s competitors around the globe,” Purcher reports.
Purcher reports, “With Apple’s law suit against HTC is reportedly shaking their faith in Google and Whiny former Sun CEO recently whinging on about Apple threatening Sun over their Looking Glass OS, Battleship Apple will go on the offensive going forward. This isn’t the last we’ll hear of Apple’s legal actions – that’s for sure. In truth, the patent wars have only begun.”
More info in the full article, including patent application illustrations, here.
Dam I just bought a new classic to replace my stolen one.
“recently whinging …”
PLEASE! Learn how to spell “whining”!!! It’s only got ONE ‘g’.
The whole story body text seems to be a link to some other site
Whinging is actually a word distinct from whining. Check before you whinge next time !
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Ignorant fool. You need to read more to expand your vocabulary.
“It’s only got ONE ‘g’.”
You could also write, “It has only ONE ‘g’.
That way, you would not have to use that ugly ‘got’ word.
My English teacher (who was German), taught us to not use the word ‘got’. Got has a German origin.
whinge |(h)winj| Brit., informal
verb ( whingeing ) [ intrans. ]
complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way : stop whingeing and get on with it!
noun
an act of complaining in such a way.
Gotdam!
Whinging is pronounced win-jing and is a synonym for whining.
A Britishism that is also used in some of the colonies. One colony it is obviously not used in is The USA.
So was that German English teacher ill disposed to the use of the other two thirds of English that has a German origin? Not sure why he had it in for ‘Got’ unless Gotten Himmel, in doing so we are inadvertently mentioning the war. Certainly don’t think the answer is to use the 20% or so that have a French origin though I suppose it would allow those with war on their mind to use ‘surrender monkey’ to their hearts content.
“It’s only got ONE ‘g’.”
You should write “Its only got ONE ‘g’.
Today’s grammar lesson:
it’s = a contraction of “it is”.
its = indicates possession by whatever is referred to by “it”.
NOTE: These rules apply in the USA. In all other jurisdictions, check with your local authorities as to applicability of these rules.
@ron: My English teacher (who was German), taught us to not use the word ‘got’. Got has a German origin.
God forbid we should use any words that are German in origin. Now to enjoy some Victory Cabbage on my hotdog.
——RM
@spyinthesky:
pointless, childish xenophobic comment.
And by the way, you’re wrong. 60% of modern English is directly derived from French, the rest is germanic and scandinavian.
@qka:
Nice… well put. Standard of ‘English’ on here is not great.
It’s not as gut as what I got from my English German teachers, I can tell you.
Huey
Not latin? I was told english came from latin. Hmmm all these years I been thinking that.
Re. Ron and “got”
Your German teacher was not named Dr Gompertz, by any chance. We used to spread carbide of calcium paste under his feet. Hilarious.
HughB:
Well, if 60% of modern English [and by modern, I mean English spoken during the last 950 years], is derived from French and modern French is derived from Latin….
I might point out that English is a thoroughly bastardized language: eg. ‘Church’ comes from Kirk which is a combination of probably Saxon and Scandinavian. In other words, Germanic.
And ‘Port’ [as in the Port of NY & NJ] is a direct lift from the French. Both words were in use around the beginning of the last millennium.
@qka:
Er, whilst you could make a very weak argument against “It’s only got one ‘g'” as bad style, that doesn’t change the fact that removing the apostrophe would make the sentence just plain wrong.
The “it’s” in that sentence is not a possessive, it’s a contraction of “it has”, and thus can only correctly be written with an apostrophe. Please learn to use English properly yourself before attempting to correct others who are doing so already.
fuck both of you!