In Jokes^x

My take David liked to joke, even with his parents. One day, his father told him to stop acting like a clown. From then on / onwards he no longer joked with his parents. David likes to joke, even with his parents. One day, his father tells him to stop acting like a clown. From then on...

David likes to joke, even with his parents. One day, his father told him to stop acting like a clown. From then onwards he no longer jokes with his parents.

David likes to joke, even with his parents. One day, his father told him to stop acting like a clown. From then on / onwards he no longer jokes / joked with his parents. Should the sentence be rephrased? If not which of the following words should I use? on or onwards jokes or joked ...

Oxford suggests that it might have been originated from a university joke, or as a parody of some Latin term of schools around 17th or 18th century.

You are a refreshing "opponent" to argue with! I will concede that criminals, especially those of violent crimes, rarely think of the punishment. Punishment is probably in reality more of a deterrent to the basicaly "good guy". Yes, I agree that it is not likely that there...

this way and maybe in 1000 years it won t have anything to do with the way it s written Jim Well I

I don't think you can be 100% bilingual. In my school they started teaching you Spanish and Basque in nursery school. Well, there was more Basque than Spanish and it was like that until the last two years of Secondary School. Only Maths and Spanish language were taught in Spanish, the rest...

Well, I wasn't thinking about the 'help' and 'au secours' thing - but I really like Forbes's thing - would he get the jokes, does he know the slang, etc. It would be interesting to talk to truly fluent people about the languages they dream in and whether it varies by...

Hi NL, I guess I was having a bad night - seems like I messed up everything. I thought you were the author of the line about Solfeg. in the Creme thread, and the detail of it made me think you were a musician, and would know the period of Bach & Handel as the Baroque, which is...

Nothing personal, but if you ask for my opinion, "was" or "is", I think that is the biggest joke I heard for a while, aside from being an arrogant nonsense.