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I'm having a discussion about which of these two sentences is correct:
I have lactose intolerance
I am lactose intolerant
Any opinions? |
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| quote: Originally posted by Proofreader:
I have lactose intolerance
I am lactose intolerant
I think both sentences are correct, except that the second one needs a hyphen: lactose-intolerant. I think the second one sounds better, too. |
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| I agree with tinman.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
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| I think the second, too, but if you said "I have a lactose intolerance" the first would work.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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<Proofreader>
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I saw this headline today:
MAN POUNDS ON COCKPIT DOOR; WRESTLED TO GROUND
Shouldn't it be "Wrestled to floor"? After all, the ground was about 35,000 feet further down. Or was he and his grapplers tossed out the door? |
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| Maybe he was severely ionized, and grounding him discharged him? But then most folks don't have the capacity to do that. 
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
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<Proofreader>
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Dat's re-Volting |
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| I agree with Tinman, too, though not with the hyphen part. |
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| Kalleh's response baffled me until I realized that this thread consists of two separate topics, almost three months apart! |
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