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What are your pet peeves re English usage?

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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 12 May, 2011 07:38 am
@McTag,
None that I know. Now I'd like to find that cartoon.
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 12 May, 2011 07:45 am
@ossobuco,

Quote:
Now I'd like to find that cartoon.


Google is wonderful.

http://www.doonesbury.com/
ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 12 May, 2011 08:11 am
@McTag,
Ok, makes sense to me now. The brain will get a chance to pose for the imaging, of the neuro type.
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 12 May, 2011 12:27 pm
@ossobuco,

You think that's it?
ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 12 May, 2011 12:59 pm
@McTag,
Yep, I'm sure of it, she says adamantly. It fits the context re posing for an image... and Gary Trudeau is not likely to have a character be so word-use off as to have him say pose instead of pause as a spelling/word choice mistake.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 09:53 am
I lack that confidence in Mr. Trudeau. For all that one might admire him, it is reasonable to assume that he is capable of error.

But that's not why i'm here. Has JTT told you people you can hold this discussion?
JTT
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 09:57 am
@Setanta,
But that's not why i'm here. I'm here to predict the demise of this thread.
McTag
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 03:24 pm
@JTT,

Is it more important when you write in italics?

I wrote to a national newspaper this week, I will not embarrass it by naming it here, because they published a headline "FIFA Officials Seek Bribes for World Cup Vote" or something very much to that effect.

Do you get my drift? What point was I seeking to make?
JTT
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 03:29 pm
@McTag,
Quote:
Is it more important when you write in italics?


That has nothing to do with it, McTag. That signals that it was Setanta talking.

Quote:
Do you get my drift? What point was I seeking to make?


How many times have you encouraged EFLs to provide more context?
McTag
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 03:36 pm
@JTT,

Context schmontext. The clue is there.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 03:48 pm
@ossobuco,
Yup. Makes sense in context.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 03:53 pm
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
But that's not why i'm here. Has JTT told you people you can hold this discussion?


Laughing

best giggle of mid-Spring 2011
JTT
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 04:28 pm
@ehBeth,
The lying old fart still turns your crank, eh, Beth. That's good.
McTag
 
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Reply Sat 14 May, 2011 07:19 am
@JTT,

This is unnecessarily vitriolic, is it not.

I think you should nicen up a tad.
JTT
 
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Reply Sat 14 May, 2011 11:26 am
@McTag,
Quote:
This is unnecessarily vitriolic, is it not.

I think you should nicen up a tad.


Odd, don't you think, McTag, that you've never addressed this concern to Setanta, a guy whose vitriol is widespread and legend?
McTag
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 03:22 am
@JTT,

I think I myself have been brusquely treated by the said gent in the past, although no doubt it was a misunderstanding, or I might even have deserved it.
Nonetheless it is not an edifying spectacle to see you two tearing lumps out of one another.

I'll say no more on this for now, and return to my question which hinges on the correct use of the word "bribe".
Can you ask for a "bribe " to be paid to you? I maintain you can not.
laughoutlood
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 04:37 am
@McTag,
Can you ask for a "bribe " to be paid to you? I maintain you can not.

The poseur opposed to posing demurred, "surely not".
JTT
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 08:58 am
@McTag,
Quote:
Can you ask for a "bribe " to be paid to you? I maintain you can not.


"FIFA Officials Seek Bribes for World Cup Vote"

If you pay me $___, then my vote will go to you.

But, regardless, there's no 'ask' in your headline. And people certainly can seek bribes in any number of ways.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 09:18 am
@JTT,
I appreciate someone with a sense of humour.

That leaves you out.
JTT
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 10:26 am
@ehBeth,
Quote:
I appreciate someone with a sense of humour.


Who might you be talking about, Beth?

Quote:
That leaves you out.


OUCH!
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