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Timothy

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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #30 on: March 25, 2010, 06:51:16 PM »
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #31 on: March 25, 2010, 07:24:44 PM »
Evil, Timothy and I like it ;D. I agree with  M58 about jargon though. Its dangerous because its useful. Speaking of political philosophy, I can make an argument in one paragraph that would take me a page to make without using it because you can pack a whole lot of words into one or two. Downside? No one without the secret decoder ring can understand you. Thus you wind up wanking off rather than engaging folks. Survey says? Leave the jargon at home and speak plain English unless there is no alternative, and even then, define your terms. As George Orwell once wrote in a literary essay, it is better to throw out all the rules of conventional English than say someting that is gramatically correct and yet incomphrensible.
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #32 on: March 25, 2010, 07:29:40 PM »
One other beef, the use of the pacive voice.
 "Mistakes were made"= I F@cked up
I may have "misspoken"= I DID lie like a rug!
When did "misspoke" become an acceptable word once we dropped the code duello?
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #33 on: March 25, 2010, 10:32:13 PM »
Confusing the proper use of "I" and "me".....happens on TV more than internet...but still a peeve to pet with me.
(As in: "He came over to shoot with Bob and I.")   >:(


As to the jargon....my all-time, most hated word that has been overused by so many is..... Infrastructure.   :-X  :-X
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2010, 06:20:05 AM »
Has anyone mentioned its (possessive) vs. it's (it is)?

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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2010, 06:34:34 AM »
My MAJOR pet peeve: the misuse of 'penultimate' - and major writers misuse it all the time.  It does not mean 'the best of the best' or the 'ultimate ultimate'.  What does it mean?

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Main Entry: pen·ul·ti·mate
Pronunciation: \pi-ˈnəl-tə-mət\
Function: adjective
Date: 1677

1 : next to the last <the penultimate chapter of a book>
2 : of or relating to a penult

(A penult is the second to last syllable in a word)

Fer crissake Robert E. Lee was not the 'penultimate Southern General'!   ::)
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #36 on: March 26, 2010, 08:04:20 AM »
I'm watching Tales of The Gun right now.  The narrator just said "weapondry".
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2010, 09:22:03 AM »
Mixologist ;)
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2010, 09:32:29 AM »
Sign on a gas pump I used last night:  Please prepay in advance.

I normally prepay after pumping.   ;D
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Re: 's does not a plural make
« Reply #39 on: March 26, 2010, 09:51:36 AM »
very unique  ;)
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