Word on Willis could come soon

[abezontar]

I gotta get in on this:

the1  /stressed ði; unstressed before a consonant ðə; unstressed before a vowel ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[stressed thee; unstressed before a consonant thuh; unstressed before a vowel thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–definite article
1. (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house.
2. (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West.
3. (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith.
4. (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time.
5. (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped.
6. (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends.
7. (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous.
8. (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way.
9. (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties.
10. (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night?
11. enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave.
12. (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE, uninflected s. of the demonstrative pronoun. See that]

—Pronunciation note As shown above, the pronunciation of the definite article the changes, primarily depending on whether the following sound is a consonant or a vowel. Before a consonant sound the pronunciation is /ðə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thuh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation: the book, the mountain /ðəbɒɒk, ðəˈmaʊntn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thuh-book, thuh-moun-tn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. Before a vowel sound it is usually /ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, sometimes /ðɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thi] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation: the apple, the end /ði or ðɪˈæpəl, ði or ðɪɛnd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee or thi-ap-uhl, thee or thi-end] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. As an emphatic form (“I didn't say a book—I said the book.”) or a citation form (“The word the is a definite article.”), the usual pronunciation is /ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, although in both of these uses of the stressed form, /ði/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation is often replaced by /ðʌ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[thuh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, especially among younger speakers.

[perunapower]

I thought this was a football forum. Why are you guys arguing the semantics of the diction the DMN decided to use when publishing an article? All that means is that if the state were to charge Willis with a crime, the punishment would not be enhanced because of the label of being a "hate crime". Now if the school or Beard are accusing Willis of a hate crime is a totally different matter. (Though I'm fairly certain that Beard is still accusing him of a hate crime, but the cards are stacked against him on that one.) Point being, why are you arguing over something so petty?

[jtstang]

9. (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties.

Not that there was anything wrong with the nineties.

[BornRed&Blue]

I thought this was a football forum. Why are you guys arguing the semantics of the diction the DMN decided to use when publishing an article? All that means is that if the state were to charge Willis with a crime, the punishment would not be enhanced because of the label of being a "hate crime". Now if the school or Beard are accusing Willis of a hate crime is a totally different matter. (Though I'm fairly certain that Beard is still accusing him of a hate crime, but the cards are stacked against him on that one.) Point being, why are you arguing over something so petty?

It is a football forum, I was referring to a quote from the Dallas Police regarding an SMU football player, which said that the event was still an "incident" and when I looked up "incident", it emphasized, that an "incident" is not as big a deal as this is being made. That was my point.

[Pony_Fan]

How can anyone use the word "crime" when there weren't any charges filed? Makes no sense to me.

This whole thing is stupid. Do community service or whatever, apologize, and let's get on with it. Like I've read on other posts, "only at SMU" does this b.s. happpen...geez.

[J.T.supporta]

Yes, true...but statues of limitations still allow Beard to file charges up to 30 days i believe. I am not for sure about the days limit

But Beard can file charges at anytime.

[smu diamond m]

what a crock.

Hopefully the offense is adapted to Slater enough to rip it up this weekend.

[jtstang]

I thought this was a football forum. Why are you guys arguing the semantics of the diction the DMN decided to use when publishing an article? All that means is that if the state were to charge Willis with a crime, the punishment would not be enhanced because of the label of being a "hate crime". Now if the school or Beard are accusing Willis of a hate crime is a totally different matter. (Though I'm fairly certain that Beard is still accusing him of a hate crime, but the cards are stacked against him on that one.) Point being, why are you arguing over something so petty?

Yes, it is a football forum, but in case you haven't heard the starting QB has been suspended for getting into a fight in what was described as a "hate crime" in "offense description" section of the Dallas Police Department incident report. This is the "diction" used by the cops when they filled out the report. Which makes this thread relevant to football.

[mr. pony]

[quote="J.T.supporta"]Yes, true...but statues of limitations [/quote]

Are you T.O.'s publicist by chance?

[WorldStang]

Yes, true...but statues of limitations

Are you T.O.'s publicist by chance?

Only if you give him 125 Million reasons to be his publicist..

[PonyPride]

Actually, it was 25 million reasons .... but if you want to say 125 million -- I'm sure that would convince him, too.

[35straight]

I have from a very very unreliable source information that could be spun to mean that a certain individual for SMU could possibly, maybe, there could be a chance that we could see him on the practice field today. Now, that being said GO STANGS.

[J.T.supporta]

If I was T.O. publicist, I would never have called 911 when he supposedly "OD"