What are your pet peeves re English usage?

@bobsal u1553115,

bobsal u1553115 wrote:

Seems familiar to me, also. Can almost catch it.

Yup!

That "prescriptivism vs descriptivism" was a huge thing with somebody back a few years. I just cannot remember who it was. I do not think it was OmSig.

I think it was you who asked the question about a previous identity earlier. Am I correct?

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@Frank Apisa,

Yes. I am a suspicious person. Little things click and catch my ear. This one clicks a lot.

OmSig wasn't shy, if it were him, even in another name he'd stick out.

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@Frank Apisa,

Is the déjà entendu almost on the presque vu?

Yeah I seem to recall that too, something like Joan without an e .

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@bobsal u1553115,

bobsal u1553115 wrote:

Yes. I am a suspicious person. Little things click and catch my ear. This one clicks a lot.

OmSig wasn't shy, if it were him, even in another name he'd stick out.

He definitely is not David. David was an odd duck, but he would not "go underground." I fear he may no longer be with us, because if he were, we would have heard from him by now.

But Fobvius MAY have been here before wearing another mask.

Maybe we will find out...maybe not.

Maybe we are just wrong.

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@Frank Apisa,

I have not watched Jeopardy in years, maybe decades. After what you wrote Frank, this gives me a reason never to watch that show again,

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@Phoenix32890,

Phoenix32890 wrote:

I have not watched Jeopardy in years, maybe decades. After what you wrote Frank, this gives me a reason never to watch that show again,

Nancy and I still watch it every night. Even some reruns on Saturday.

Ken Jennings is terrific as host...so the only time it is uncomfortable is when Bialik is host...and she does not get much hosting work.

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@Frank Apisa,

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Maybe we will find out...maybe not.

If you want to find out the name of the prescriptivism vs descriptivism ex expert here (that I quoted) you could either google it or ask cryptic cruciverbalist cherrie to unscramble my previous post about Joan, just joking around.

"Like Joan without an e".

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@Frank Apisa,

It's a returnee.

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@bobsal u1553115,

bobsal u1553115 wrote:

It's a returnee.

Yep.

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@fobvius,

fobvius wrote:

Quote:
Maybe we will find out...maybe not.

If you want to find out the name of the prescriptivism vs descriptivism ex expert here (that I quoted) you could either google it or ask cryptic cruciverbalist cherrie to unscramble my previous post about Joan, just joking around.

"Like Joan without an e".

Or...I could just ask you what name you posted on before...which I have already done.

I'll do it again: What name did you post with before?

And if you would prefer not to reveal that...cool with me.

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@Frank Apisa,

Who gives a monkey's?

I don't.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Who gives a monkey's?

I don't.

Just curious, Iz. That's all.

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@Frank Apisa,

They'd have to be a lot more interesting to make me curious.

On another thread I made a reference to Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, and Fobvius's redponse was to cut and paste it.

However you frame it, it's not Oscar Wilde.

Or even Eddie Large.

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That people use the word devolve as though it meant de-evolve.

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@izzythepush,

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it's not Oscar Wilde.

Unlike other authors with nothing to declare?

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@ailsagirl,

In the UK the misuse of the apostrophe in general is jokingly known as "the grocer's apostrophe" as it was supposedly seen as a common error on hand written market stall produce labels. "Tomato's £4 per kilo"

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@Setanta,

I believe he did it to himself:-
The Golden Trashery
of Ogden Nashery

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@ailsagirl,

Something is either unique or it isn't. It can't be almost / nearly unique, but it could be rare.
Having a mother and two aunts who were all teachers, I can state quite categorically that it it always "different from" and never "different to / than".

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@pjaj,

Have you not heard of the difference between descriptive and prescriptive grammar or regional dialect and vernacular?

It seems like the sort of thing a teacher would talk about.

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Farther & further

Farther--distance
Further--time

He furthered his education, but the school was farther.

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