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Hey this is the Pedantry Thread, we just jump on anything that's said here  Hmmm, that wasn't quite my understanding of the purpose of this thread. The Pedantry thread seems to have rather veered off course recently. Let's just stick to Members occasionally messing up with the lingo. Other issues that have been broached recently would be best dealt with on another thread, if Members wish to continue a debate concerning the points raised. |
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Hey this is the Pedantry Thread, we just jump on anything that's said here Hmmm, that wasn't quite my understanding of the purpose of this thread. The Pedantry thread seems to have rather veered off course recently. Let's just stick to Members occasionally messing up with the lingo. Well done Mort, messing up the lingo, there's lovely, look you, tidy there is, Oh, look at That Doric capital on the pillar of Bethel Chapel, like a stalk of asparagus in it's profoundity. No, they be acanthus leaves, it do come from the thistle. Thistle? How cruel, when you know I have a lispth. Ionic, surely? Ironic more like. Agree with Mort, no-one but the Welsh can mangle the language like us can do but let us not stray into racist waters. |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #662 on: 21:09:38, 23-06-2008 » |
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Let's just stick to Members occasionally messing up with the lingo.
Statistics can provide endless opportunities for pedentry as much as grammar. Not that I can understand them. |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #664 on: 22:11:47, 23-06-2008 » |
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English, can't spell Pedantry, Poor Dabs. Can't play Rugby either Night All. |
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« Reply #665 on: 22:15:28, 23-06-2008 » |
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Pendantry We could be going in circles for a while yet! |
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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« Reply #666 on: 22:19:04, 23-06-2008 » |
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Pendantry We could be going in circles for a while yet! That is what so delicious! |
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« Reply #667 on: 22:21:41, 23-06-2008 » |
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That is what so delicious!
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« Reply #668 on: 22:39:18, 23-06-2008 » |
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Goodness, I stand in awe of a Collusus, no way could I remember what I said yesterday, let alone March 2007. harmonyharmony - you are the one and only!!! And I have spelt Collusus rong of corse.
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« Reply #669 on: 23:28:55, 23-06-2008 » |
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No. This is what so delicious is being is. What? Fish being permitted on a beaver is??? |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #670 on: 00:43:31, 24-06-2008 » |
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So did you tell me on Thursday. Doesn't that normally come out as 'So you told me'?  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #671 on: 00:47:28, 24-06-2008 » |
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Currently on the Guardian homepage re Zimbabwe:
"UN leader wants election scraped"
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« Reply #672 on: 09:50:02, 24-06-2008 » |
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I had tried to explain the basic principle to Mr Tinners2 a few weeks ago, but couldn't come up with an example even that I found funny. Then we went to see a play which included this rather classic specimen, but he still didn't laugh:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Is it a big horse?
"Is it a big horse" who?
[bursting into song] Is it-a be-cause I am a Londoner? ...
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #673 on: 12:14:19, 24-06-2008 » |
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So did you tell me on Thursday. Doesn't that normally come out as 'So you told me'? Probably, but I thought that sounded a bit too snappy. |
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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« Reply #674 on: 13:53:35, 24-06-2008 » |
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