Grammar Question:

[chupe666]

I've heard it several different ways, and simply must know.

 

[J.]

I think "Shout Outs" is right.

There is a show on Saturday Night Live with the funny black guy as a DJ, and the show is called something like "Shout Outs", so I think that is right.

 

[The Wanderer]

definately boobies.

mad shout outs to boobies.

 

[FrostGiant]

Gotta be shout outs. It's the same as lets say, ass clown. If you have two of them it wouldn't be asses clown, you'd have two ass clowns. So you should also have two shout outs to two ass clowns along with the two shout outs to two boobies.

 

[chupe666]

However:

If we dissect the phrase "Sent a Shout Out" grammatically, does it not appear that the first word 'Sent' is indeed a past tense verb, 'Shout' is the noun that was 'Sent', and 'Out' is the adverb describing where said noun was 'Sent'? In that case, the correct plural phrasing would appear to be "Sent Shouts Out", correct?


Although:

If the entire phrase "Shout Out" is considered a noun, then the correct answer would have to be as you have mentioned, "Shout Outs".


This is indeed a quandry. I may never know how to correctly phrase my letter to Lil' Kim. Maybe I'll just ask how her boobies are.

 

[FrostGiant]

I see....your shouts would be sent out. Sending shouts out, as it were.

I'm glad I live in an area where we say Hey Der. Much, much easier.

 

[FuSoYa]

shouts outr is grammatucally correct. but since it's a stupid slang term anyway, shout outs is the more base and therefore the correcter

 

[FuSoYa]

er... "shouts out" is grammatically correct.

 

[chupe666]

I want to vote for Boobies again.

 

[The Wanderer]

'Shout out' is a phrase so you can treat it like one word and still be correct. It's all about use anyway. any wittenstein or frege fans?

 

[DeadWinterDead]

It'd be "shout outs". Your point about being "Sent shouts out", I think "sent" would have to be a person, and he is "shouting out".

 

[ricochet]

Originally posted by FuSoYa
shouts outr is grammatucally correct. but since it's a stupid slang term anyway, shout outs is the more base and therefore the correcter

Agreed.

 

[Fortis Aganoth]

Shout Out is all one Noun. It's for stupid wiggers and gansters anyway, so it cnanot be that complex.

 

[ShadowLioness]

Originally posted by FuSoYa
shouts outr is grammatucally correct. but since it's a stupid slang term anyway, shout outs is the more base and therefore the correcter

Since this is a grammar thread...shouldn't it be "more correct"?

 

[ShadowLioness]

Alright, let's just call it TITS and be done with it

 

[xfer]

theonion

VOLUME 36 ISSUE 33 — 20 SEPTEMBER 2000
William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior
NEW YORK—Stopping for lunch at a Manhattan Burger King, New York Times 'On Language' columnist William Safire ordered two "Whoppers Junior" Thursday. "Most Burger King patrons operate under the fallacious assumption that the plural is 'Whopper Juniors,'" Safire told a woman standing in line behind him. "This, of course, is a grievous grammatical blunder, akin to saying 'passerbys' or, worse yet, the dreaded 'attorney generals.'" Last week, Safire patronized a midtown Taco Bell, ordering "two Big Beef Burritos Supreme."

 

[chupe666]

This looks a man who has had a few Whoppers Junior in his time. His forehead looks like a hamburger bun.
You are what you eat, you know.

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/SAFIRE-BIO.html

 

[J.]

I like boobies

 

[xfer]

Dreamlord = intellectual!

 

[FrostGiant]

Well, The Onion saves the day again.