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[starrylizard]

I bought an iRiver (20GB) a few weeks back and I thought I was going a bit nuts, because it kept losing songs. Today, it started losing albumns. Like, you go into an albumn and there would be two songs in it, rather than say twelve or fifteen.

Just then it froze. I can't even turn it off. It's just died. Bleh! Maybe I can exchange the crappy thing for an iPod! *sigh* I hate trying to get a refund. I hope they don't try to fix it. That never ends well.


EDIT: Random question for the better educated flist:
"The interaction of PTH with its receptor and the subsequent activation of G-protein-dependent pathways has have been well studied and will be briefly discussed here."

I can't decide whether it should be has or have in the sentence. *meep* Spell checker is going with have, but I would have used has I think. Now I have no idea. Anyone got a nice rule for me?

Update: After much debate here and in the lab...I'm thinking it's "have", because they are two separate things. It's just my extrememly odd sentence which is messing with my grammar rules. Maybe I should change the sentence. *grins*

Comments

[kyokoaegis.livejournal.com]

well seems like both the interaction and the activation have been studied, so I would say "have" ut then again I'm far from being fluent in english so I'm not very sure about that ;) Also your studies seem to be really interesting! It reminds me of my university days ^^

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

ooh. I wasn't thinking about it that way. It is the interaction and the activation being studied I guess and if I think about it that way I would use "have".

I was thinking "receptor has been" (singular) and "pathways have been" (plural), which is why I was/am still confused. Since the receptor part is first, I'm inclined to put "has".

But you may be right. In general people that study a language are often better at the grammar, because they have to learn it.

hmmmm. *ponders*

Yeah it's interesting I guess, but I'm a tad over it at the moment. I'm trying to get interested again, so I can write. I could bore you all with PhD stuff, but I tend to think you'd all fall asleep. :p

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Teehee! You were right!