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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Google gave you nothing, but it sold your details to 15,549 telemarketers and the Feds ![]() |
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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^ I don't care if they do get it.
![]() . . . Caught this word from a poster in the Mining Research Facility of my alma mater (UNR); it's time I've put a meaning to that word: torrefaction. Two more: paracentesis, populism.
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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More so (not moreso!), so much so.
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Ah, there's a fun one (I'm sure a few of us know about this one): dord.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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... good one.
Of course now we live in the age of teh unimaginative generation, typos are adopted rather than corrected.
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Argonaught ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 04 2012 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 1413 |
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We must embrace the self-increasing chaos .. can't beat entropy :)
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Just heard this one when watching an episode of Columbo : tightless (or I may have misheard it).
"Lieutenant, I have already told you that Dr. Fleming is a close personal friend of mine. Now, I hope he is not going to be annoyed by a lot of tightless remarks, especially at a time like this." Don't know what the word means; I could only guess (meaning "careless"?). I may ask about this one on an English language-related forum. Investigation ongoing. ![]() Edited by Dayvenkirq - October 31 2014 at 15:37 |
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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![]() "Lieutenant, I have already told you that Dr. Fleming is a close personal friend of mine. Now, I hope he is not going to be annoyed by a lot of tactless remarks, especially at a time like this." ...makes a lot more sense.
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Ah, thanks.
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my curtain sounds like a canoe...
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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... Hm?
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Angelo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244 |
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That reminds me of malleability... A lot the rules we take for granted assume that we live in a malleable world. Of course, chaos is something to avoid, but grammar and spelling rules were devised for this reason, have become abused to artificially control the natural development of language. Typos not getting corrected probably has more to do with lack of depth and substance in communications - who cares if the spelling of a volatile remark is correct? Now that leads to a whole different discussion, which has nothing to do with language per se, but everything with our whole modern culture. Let's not go there on Sunday morning, I'm not a priest ![]() Oh, and Dean - I'm not sure if 'teh generation' is correct
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akamaisondufromage ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797 |
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teh teh generation |
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Help me I'm falling!
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![]() They're the reason The The were not admitted into the archives. They wouldn't be able to find the band, nor rate their albums.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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![]() Of course typos differ from spelling errors and regional variations in spelling and they in turn differ from grammar errors. Typos are easy to spot: "teh" instead of "the" and "pwn" instead of "own" are misspellings that could only occur on a typewriter keyboard and are a symptom of typed-conversation where spelling takes a back seat role. In my own writing such typos are frequent because this Acer laptop has a tired and biscuit crumb-filled keyboard so some key-presses fail to register due to the speed in which I type, and the fact that I type faster than my ability to type accurately. Using "there" when the writer means "their" or "they're" or "your" when they mean "you're" or "yaw" are not typing errors, nor are they a spelling error since all six words pass a spell-checker. They are simply examples of using the wrong word, which makes them grammar errors. Since such homophones are easy to correct and seldom (if ever) lead to ambiguity or misunderstanding, getting all "grammar nazi" over their misused seems silly to me. Grammar errors are not the huge crime against language that some people make them out to be. Though you could argue that they do reflect a deterioration in writing standards, (but not educational standards - people who misuse such words do know the correct word to use), not correcting such mistakes before hitting "post" is more a reflection of impatience and the limitations of time. Regional variations appeal to me more - I generally write in a British accent so favour (as opposed to favor ![]() Since I find myself sounding the "-ed" ending as "-d" when reading the American spelling (e.g., "spell'd") I suspect that now these regional spelling variants are pronounced that way by those who favour the "-ed" ending... Compare those with "cooked" and "booked", where the common accepted pronunciation is "cook't" and "book't" with a "-t" ending or "waited" or "sated" that are pronounced as "wait-id" and "sate-id". In both British and American English "learned" meaning 'educated' is of course pronounced "lur-ned" and in British English we would never use "learnt" in that context. Edited by Dean - November 02 2014 at 06:05 |
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Angelo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244 |
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Concerning they're and their c.s.: I too suffer from being able to type faster than my computer can handle - any computer for that matter. What comes on top of that is that i often suffer from some form of short-circuiting there, which causes me to end up typing a word that sounds the same, but means something different (here, hear is another example). Happens both in Dutch and English, and I have no clue how to get rid of it so I live with it happily ever since.
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