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by brogine
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!
by brogine
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 ...
by brogine
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.
by brogine
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 . . . ?
by brogine
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 ...
by brogine
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.
by brogine
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...
by brogine
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.
by brogine
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.
by brogine
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....
by brogine
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’.
by brogine
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’!
by brogine
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!”
by brogine
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.
by brogine
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.

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