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- Fri Jul 14, 2023 7:24 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Happy End
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6864
Happy End
Never brought this up before as I had no recollection of where I heard it. We artsy, phony types can feel quite the cognoscenti pronouncing Kurt Weill’s name the German way - ‘Vile’. But one of the hosts on our local classical music station just today related the same story I’d heard. That is, when ...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Merely observing . . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13240
Re: Merely observing . . .
That’s it! Once again I am indebted to you for a contribution to my lexicon of rhetoric. Thanks, really.
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Merely observing . . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13240
Re: Merely observing . . .
What a surprise! You’re right. It’s a similar construction, but not at all the same thing. Now, maybe I can learn a new word which applies to my erroneous examples!
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 6:05 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Merely observing . . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13240
Re: Merely observing . . .
Hi. Perhaps an over-enthusiastic remark on my part. The latter ‘say’ is meant to be taken in the sense of ‘dictate’, not merely ‘utter’. I think that constitutes a zeugma . . . ? The earlier one I’ve mentioned before, (obliquely referred to) is in the lyric “I’ll sparkle and gleam so, Make somebody ...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:15 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Blessed Event
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16949
Re: Blessed Event
Thanks to you both. A friend once referred to ‘Broadway Street’, talking about the one here in San Francisco.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Blessed Event
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16949
Re: Blessed Event
But wait . . .
Heard on public radio, July 5, 2023: VIN number.
Is this thing on . . . ?
Heard on public radio, July 5, 2023: VIN number.
Is this thing on . . . ?
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 4:54 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: “Rewrite!”
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11098
“Rewrite!”
“. . . they housed extraordinary tubeworm reefs like those found nowhere else.” Narration in a documentary from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, presumably composed and reviewed before recording. In the same film, a U of Alaska ‘wildlife ecologist’ refers to lichen as a ‘species’. I want my ...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 4:28 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: A Stealth Suffix
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7458
Re: A Stealth Suffix
Thanks. Their antecedents are similar. Could they be related?
The uses are not so different.
The uses are not so different.
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 1:31 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: RSVP
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4785
Re: RSVP
Here’s the passage which brought to mind this cutie from my menagerie of pet peeves: We’d experimentally demonstrated rapid, adaptive evolution in nature (needless to say, that was the last time I used homemade graph paper to look at preliminary data. In my defense, the differences in leg length amo...
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:44 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: RSVP
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4785
Re: RSVP
Thanks. Your example is spot on. I consider it illogical. A semicolon seems more appropriate.
Your point on the header is taken.
Your point on the header is taken.
- Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: RSVP
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4785
RSVP
Do you find this construction problematic? I’ve seen it numerous times.
I have an example from an e-book at hand, if you’d like to see it.
Xxxx . . . xx (xxx . . . . Xxx).
In other (well, actual) words, a full stop and new sentence within a parenthesis.
I have an example from an e-book at hand, if you’d like to see it.
Xxxx . . . xx (xxx . . . . Xxx).
In other (well, actual) words, a full stop and new sentence within a parenthesis.
- Fri May 26, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Meandering Maundering
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4003
Meandering Maundering
I came across an image* which brought Keats to mind: A thing of beauty is a joy for ever and wondered if splitting ‘forever’ was an artistic choice. It was in common usage both ways in his time. It seems to me - possibly because ‘for ever’ is now uncommon - that, as written, it’s much more powerful....
- Sun May 21, 2023 7:13 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Tuchus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1547
Re: Tuchus
Per Leo Rosten’s The Joys of Yiddish, it’s from the Hebrew for ‘under’.
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4544
Re: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!
When I was young, ‘black’ was a vile word . . . like ‘queer’!
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:41 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4544
Re: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!
How ’bout ‘seminal’? ‘Webmaster’? ‘Brown bag’?
“Everybody’s a racist except me . . .
and I ain’t too sure about that motherfucker!”
“Everybody’s a racist except me . . .
and I ain’t too sure about that motherfucker!”