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I do! Your trouble is you've watched too much American TV. ;)

A trivial debate over semantics; that's me fired up for the afternoon... By teatime, I'll no doubt be a simmering mass of highly-charged erotic tension. Mrs Fitter, LOOK OUT! :)

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I do!

You do NOT! YOU are the one who said "A group, by definition, is.... "

Hah!

And The Who were mods, because you always use the word 'who' with the plural form of the verb.

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Hmm, wait... let me see...

No... I take it back. Because I wouldn't even say "The Who were mods". Because 'mods' is what's pluralising the whole thing, not 'The Who'.

The Who is a band. There. Singular it is.

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What's wrong with 'The Who were mods' then? In this case, we're talking about the individual members, so The Who is plural---as opposed to 'The Who is mod'. That sentence's got a different meaning.

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I would like to back you up, if I'd actually knew it...

"The Who" just like any other band name, is a proper name, and isn't translated at all... so we would neither say "Die Who" nor "Die Wer" or anything else...

I just read the German Wikipedia article about them and there it's always "The Who ist (Singular) eine der bedeutendsten englischen Rockbands der 1960er- und 1970er-Jahre."

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Okay... I've just read a few posts on some German forums and such, and they all talked about Die Who. (not The)

Thanks though :)

really? :stars: can you give me a link, I never would have thought of talking about "die Who"... :P

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"Sonic Youth were great, weren't they?"

"Sonic Youth was great, wasn't it?"

Now...which sounds right to you? Honestly?

(Notwithstanding your actual opinion of SY, of course)

:grin: :grin:

Sonic Youth rock!!!! :rockon:

That seems about right... youth must be plural

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