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vladimir wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 2:11 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:57 pm

vladimir wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 10:30 am

1. Hanno is not blond (the correct form of the adjective)

Get educated.

yeah if youre French or American

in British English we dont give a toss if you say Blond or Blonde, and Blonde is far more the common usage

http://grammarist.com/usage/blond-blonde/

Incorrect:

If you're French (where adjectives agree with the gender of the noun they qualify) or English (not American) (I suspect you may have meant that):

In British English blonde and blonde remain.

Americans may maul the word, I suspect, like they maul date formats and refuse to flow with the rest of the world wrt the metric system.

what exactly am i incorrect about?
in British English we primarily use the word Blonde, whether it be for Male or Female, the word "Blond" is rarely ever used and actually hurts my eyes to look at it
nothing i said was incorrect at all
French use the word Blond for males and Blonde for females,
Americans primarily use the word Blond in all cases
English primarily use the word Blonde in all cases

your attempt at being a Grammar Nazi failed mate, suck it up

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:22 pm

vladimir wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 2:11 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:57 pm

vladimir wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 10:30 am

1. Hanno is not blond (the correct form of the adjective)

Get educated.

yeah if youre French or American

in British English we dont give a toss if you say Blond or Blonde, and Blonde is far more the common usage

http://grammarist.com/usage/blond-blonde/

Incorrect:

If you're French (where adjectives agree with the gender of the noun they qualify) or English (not American) (I suspect you may have meant that):

In British English blonde and blonde remain.

Americans may maul the word, I suspect, like they maul date formats and refuse to flow with the rest of the world wrt the metric system.

what exactly am i incorrect about?
in British English we primarily use the word Blonde, whether it be for Male or Female, the word "Blond" is rarely ever used and actually hurts my eyes to look at it
nothing i said was incorrect at all
French use the word Blond for males and Blonde for females,
Americans primarily use the word Blond in all cases
English primarily use the word Blonde in all cases

your attempt at being a Grammar Nazi failed mate, suck it up

Having blonde hair myself I've always spelled it blonde and generally seen it spelled blonde through the years in the US.

Granted I'm not an English teacher

Seasquatch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:32 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:22 pm

vladimir wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 2:11 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:57 pm

vladimir wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 10:30 am

1. Hanno is not blond (the correct form of the adjective)

Get educated.

yeah if youre French or American

in British English we dont give a toss if you say Blond or Blonde, and Blonde is far more the common usage

http://grammarist.com/usage/blond-blonde/

Incorrect:

If you're French (where adjectives agree with the gender of the noun they qualify) or English (not American) (I suspect you may have meant that):

In British English blonde and blonde remain.

Americans may maul the word, I suspect, like they maul date formats and refuse to flow with the rest of the world wrt the metric system.

what exactly am i incorrect about?
in British English we primarily use the word Blonde, whether it be for Male or Female, the word "Blond" is rarely ever used and actually hurts my eyes to look at it
nothing i said was incorrect at all
French use the word Blond for males and Blonde for females,
Americans primarily use the word Blond in all cases
English primarily use the word Blonde in all cases

your attempt at being a Grammar Nazi failed mate, suck it up

Having blonde hair myself I've always spelled it blonde and generally seen it spelled blonde through the years in the US.

Granted I'm not an English teacher

Neither is Vlad

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:43 pm

Seasquatch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:32 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:22 pm

vladimir wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 2:11 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:57 pm

yeah if youre French or American

in British English we dont give a toss if you say Blond or Blonde, and Blonde is far more the common usage

http://grammarist.com/usage/blond-blonde/

Incorrect:

If you're French (where adjectives agree with the gender of the noun they qualify) or English (not American) (I suspect you may have meant that):

In British English blonde and blonde remain.

Americans may maul the word, I suspect, like they maul date formats and refuse to flow with the rest of the world wrt the metric system.

what exactly am i incorrect about?
in British English we primarily use the word Blonde, whether it be for Male or Female, the word "Blond" is rarely ever used and actually hurts my eyes to look at it
nothing i said was incorrect at all
French use the word Blond for males and Blonde for females,
Americans primarily use the word Blond in all cases
English primarily use the word Blonde in all cases

your attempt at being a Grammar Nazi failed mate, suck it up

Having blonde hair myself I've always spelled it blonde and generally seen it spelled blonde through the years in the US.

Granted I'm not an English teacher

Neither is Vlad

Brutal

Actually Americans can use either one. We inherited the confusion from the Brits and thought, "fuck it, who cares?"

The blonde thing is stupid.

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2017 6:22 pmyeah if youre French or American

in British English we dont give a toss if you say Blond or Blonde, and Blonde is far more the common usage

what exactly am i incorrect about?
in British English we primarily use the word Blonde, whether it be for Male or Female, the word "Blond" is rarely ever used and actually hurts my eyes to look at it

You are wrong because:

1. It may hurt your eyes to look at it, and you may not give a toss as a bricklayer/highly successful MA athlete (all due respect) but in British English the words and their usage blond/blonde remain very much alive, whether you like it or not.

2. You do NOT use the word blonde to describe a male unless you're an idiot. Refer us to any respectable academic publication which ignores the difference, please.

I have referred you to a respected website in this regard, but you have chosen to ignore it. Mmm, let me see, whom should I use as a standard , a bricklayer or a site run by academics specialising in language usage?

Tough choice, right?

You are simply mistaken in this case, and following people in error.

In American English, they don't care, or the discriminatory factor has fallen away. cf jewellery/jewelry, etc.

If you had posted, in your original post, that Americans don't care, no problem. I concur.

But trust me, submit any kind of reasonable essay/assignment with that mistake to any competent teacher of British English, and he'/she would point out your error.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/blonde

'Usage

The alternative spellings blonde and blond correspond to the feminine and masculine forms in French, but in English the distinction is not always made, as English does not have such distinctions of grammatical gender. Thus, blond woman or blonde woman, blond man or blonde man are all used. The word is more commonly used of women, though, and in the noun the spelling is typically blonde. In American usage the usual spelling is blond for both adjective and noun'

But what the fuck does Oxford know, right?

Or Cambridge, for that matter?

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/diction ... lish/blond


blondadjective [ -er/-est only ] usually female blonde us ​ /blɑnd/
​

(esp. of hair) pale yellow or golden
blond
noun [ C ] usually female blonde us ​ /blɑnd/

Do you think she’s a natural blonde, or is her hair bleached?'

In UK English, the distinction usually remains...in US English it usually disappears...

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti ... ish/blonde


blonde
(blɒnd )
Word forms: plural blondes , comparative blonder , superlative blondest language note: The form blonde is usually used to refer to women, and blond to refer to men.
1. colour
A woman who has blonde hair has pale-coloured hair. Blonde hair can be very light brown or light yellow. The form blond is used when describing men.
There were two little girls, one Asian and one with blonde hair.
The baby had blond curls.
2. adjective
Someone who is blonde has blonde hair.
She was tall, blonde, and attractive.
He was blonder than his brother.
...the striking blond actor.
Synonyms: fair-haired, golden-haired, tow-headed More Synonyms of blonde
3. countable noun
A blonde is a woman who has blonde hair.
More Synonyms of blonde
COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
blonde in British
(blɒnd )
adjective
1. (of women's hair) of a light colour; fair
2. (of a person, people or a race) having fair hair, a light complexion, and, typically, blue or grey eyes
3. (of soft furnishings, wood, etc) light in colour
noun
4. a person, esp a woman, having light-coloured hair and skin
5. Also called : blonde lace
a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Derived forms
blondeness (ˈblondeness) noun
Word origin of 'blonde'
C15: from Old French blond (fem blonde), probably of Germanic origin; related to Late Latin blundus yellow, Italian biondo, Spanish blondo

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/blonde

http://www.whichenglish.com/Better-Engl ... ter-B.html

'blond or blonde?

'These words can be tricky. A woman with blond hair is called a blonde, while a man with blond hair is called a blond.'

ALL UK English, ALL refer to women when using blonde,,, LOL

Probably, teachers and academics use blonde/blond, and fairly common (albeit incorrect) usage is lazy, preferring blond.

It's like 'loose' and 'lose', 'your' and 'you're'. In time, the differences may be merged for simplicity, but for now, it exists.


Suck it up.