The majority of angry closeted gays seem to play EQ

[Chaboo_Cleric]

On the red server and specifically the forums. I seem to find a lot of angry people lashing out when it comes to being gay or bisexual. You mention dick once and the entire community starts chiming in. It seems to me with a large amount of males playing this game, there are lot people with pent up desires. Is this the same on the blue server?

Also some studies backing these claims up:

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/hom...orn-surprised/

[quido]

I don't think the actual gayness is what matters to most people. Doing low budget gay porn just reeks of desperation.

[Cecily]

This guy wants attention so bad haha. WB Visage.

[Chaboo_Cleric]

Quido, as a old time subscriber to my vids I am quite taken by your comments now. Alas hypocrisy is real

[bktroost]

"The majority of angry closeted gays seem to play EQ"

I don't understand the grammar here.

"The majority". The majority of what? This sentence makes it look like you are saying that the majority of "angry closeted gays", meaning all angry closeted gays in the world.

I have to assume that the intent behind your title is that "the majority" should be referring to "[those who] play EQ", meaning the majority of EQ players are "angry closeted gays."


certainly if the former is actually the correct intent than the latter is probably also true, but, just for clarification, which is it?

[Pokesan]

im gay

[Chaboo_Cleric]

Originally Posted by bktroost [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"The majority of angry closeted gays seem to play EQ"

I don't understand the grammar here.

"The majority". The majority of what? This sentence makes it look like you are saying that the majority of "angry closeted gays", meaning all angry closeted gays in the world.

I have to assume that the intent behind your title is that "the majority" should be referring to "[those who] play EQ", meaning the majority of EQ players are "angry closeted gays."


certainly if the former is actually the correct intent than the latter is probably also true, but, just for clarification, which is it?

here's one quote apparently coined by a native English speaker:

If I recollect rightly, Aristotle observes, that a democracy has many striking points of resemblance with a tyranny. Of this I am certain, that in a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority, whenever strong divisions prevail in that kind of polity, as they often must; and that oppression of the minority will extend to far greater numbers, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. (Edmund Burke)
Here, the majority is contrasted with the minority, and this probably makes the nouns "definite": we are all accustomed to groups of people being divided into a majority and a minority on numerous matters. This use of the probably stresses that the author talks about definite concepts, not about particular groups of people.

1. The grammar: "partitive structures"
As I understand it, constructions of the type (A/The) Z of X have a partitive effect: we tend to assume that Z is part of X. Hence, the use of the is justified only when the reader is familiar with this particular group Z that is part of X.

The writer can oftener safely presume that all his readers are familiar with abstract concepts than with some particular groups of people or items. Hence, this partitive use of the seems to prevail in phrases speaking about well-known abstract topics:

She is studying the history of Russia. (okay)(see Quirk et al., 5.58)
She has already bought the majority of the Russian history books she needs. (not okay? or marginally okay?)
The grammar: "collective nouns"
The word majority is a collective noun and could be treated either as a plural noun or as a singular noun. But following a it is usually plural, especially in of-partitive structures:

A majority of the students were polled. (according to the grammar book "Woe is I")
Here's one explanation I've found on the web (Grammar Logs, 2000):

In the expression "a majority of ____," we invariably use a plural verb. The word majority is always singular in itself when it means a superiority in number — "The majority was small but enough to carry the day." In other senses, the word can be either singular or plural, depending on whether you're thinking of the group in question as a singular entity or as a group of individuals: "the majority [of the students] have voted already"; "the majority is sometimes wrong." But "a majority of ______" requires a plural verb.

[maskedmelon]

Ohhhh I remember Visage now! My confusion is at an end now ^^ Hi~

[big_ole_jpn]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ohhhh I remember Visage now! My confusion is at an end now ^^ Hi~

If you look like the way you type, I want to stick it.

[Chaboo_Cleric]

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Ohhhh I remember Visage now! My confusion is at an end now ^^ Hi~

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