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- Sun Jul 09, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Merely observing . . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12515
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: 12515
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: 16178
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: 16178
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: 9505
“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: 7042
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: 4391
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: 4391
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: 4391
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: 3550
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: 1390
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: 4219
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: 4219
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!”
- Mon Apr 24, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: ¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4219
¡Vamonos, Muchachxs!
Stanford is the latest institution to let us know how to speak.
https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/docu ... .pdf#page4
Some of the entries are hilarious. And, you betcha!, as a whole the thing is gold for the GQP.
https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/docu ... .pdf#page4
Some of the entries are hilarious. And, you betcha!, as a whole the thing is gold for the GQP.
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:59 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: New Verb - Convention
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3434
Re: New Verb - Convention
Possibly being au courant is not good enough for some folks, and they feel they must innovate, as foolish as is the result.