Plenty of Latinos make it to Orlando. Who else would work for 3 bucks a day as hotel housekeeping — then and steal your stuff while you’re at Disney and Universal?
Often, writers muddle the words past and passed in sentences such as:
“The heroes passed a village on their way towards the mountains.”
It’s common to see this written as:
“The heroes past a village on their way towards the mountains.”
But the word should be passed, as (in this sentence) it’s the past participle of the verb “to pass”. An easy way to tell is to rewrite the sentence in the present tense, as though you’re describing something which is happening currently:
“The heroes pass a village on their way towards the mountains.”
or “The heroes are passing a village on their way towards the mountains.”
Uh, no, you guys are the morons. Colonoscoper was right to begin with. The “passed” that was used in the picture is wrong. I’m not a grammar Nazi but it just looks and sounds wrong to me.
“The Latinos never get past this point.”
“The Latinos never get passed at this point.” How’s that?
But that wasn’t the main point of me leaving a comment here. What I wanted to point out is where the hell would the ‘Latinos’ be coming from. It’s not like the end of Florida is connected to Mexico or Cuba or some other small island! Is the OP implying that the ‘Latinos’ would swim across the Gulf of Mexico to get into Florida?!
Didn’t Walt Disney make The Three Caballeros in 1944 which let a lot of people learn a little something about Latin American music & culture at a time when it wasn’t as commonplace?
Past.
It’s “past”, you moron.
Plenty of Latinos make it to Orlando. Who else would work for 3 bucks a day as hotel housekeeping — then and steal your stuff while you’re at Disney and Universal?
When do “past” and “passed” get confused?
Often, writers muddle the words past and passed in sentences such as:
“The heroes passed a village on their way towards the mountains.”
It’s common to see this written as:
“The heroes past a village on their way towards the mountains.”
But the word should be passed, as (in this sentence) it’s the past participle of the verb “to pass”. An easy way to tell is to rewrite the sentence in the present tense, as though you’re describing something which is happening currently:
“The heroes pass a village on their way towards the mountains.”
or “The heroes are passing a village on their way towards the mountains.”
YOU MORON.
My work here is already done for meh…
As is mine.
Uh, no, you guys are the morons. Colonoscoper was right to begin with. The “passed” that was used in the picture is wrong. I’m not a grammar Nazi but it just looks and sounds wrong to me.
“The Latinos never get past this point.”
“The Latinos never get passed at this point.” How’s that?
But that wasn’t the main point of me leaving a comment here. What I wanted to point out is where the hell would the ‘Latinos’ be coming from. It’s not like the end of Florida is connected to Mexico or Cuba or some other small island! Is the OP implying that the ‘Latinos’ would swim across the Gulf of Mexico to get into Florida?!
yes.
Didn’t Walt Disney make The Three Caballeros in 1944 which let a lot of people learn a little something about Latin American music & culture at a time when it wasn’t as commonplace?
Leave Walt Disney alooooooone!
Here-here!
*Hear hear!
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1489/why-do-people-say-hear-hear
The poster did not get PAST high school.
Oh. My. God. Florida IS America’s wang!!