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« Reply #675 on: 15:27:07, 24-06-2008 » |
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Should that be 'Maybe it's Big Horse'?
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« Reply #676 on: 03:07:14, 28-06-2008 » |
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the typesetter repeated the clef configuration in a somewhat assinine manner for the system beginning at bar 18. 'Asinine' comes from the Latin asinus, not from the English 'ass'. |
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« Reply #677 on: 15:35:33, 03-07-2008 » |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7487945.stm"...could have..." Mind you, they were quoting someone. Should the report have put (sic) inside the quotation marks? Should the reporter have assumed he misheard and reported the speech as "...could have..."? And later... "It is regrettable that this incident should have occurred." What are they really saying here? It is regrettable that this incident occurred. This incident should not have occurred. It is regrettable that anyone should think that this incident should have occurred. Tommo
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« Reply #678 on: 15:39:48, 03-07-2008 » |
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"It is regrettable that this incident should have occurred." That looks like subjunctive hangover to me. Trips me up in French all the time. "I'm glad you came" [shush, martle] is more or less "Je suis heureux que tu sois venu" (E&OE  ). Subjunctive even though the person is indeed actually there. |
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« Reply #679 on: 16:46:37, 03-07-2008 » |
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(sic) I believe [ sic]to be typographically correct. |
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« Reply #680 on: 18:13:34, 03-07-2008 » |
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(sic) I believe [ sic]to be typographically correct. "[ sic]to" or "[ sic] to" ? Nothing like a healthy dose of pedantry to close off a Thursday. Tommo |
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« Reply #681 on: 12:40:41, 14-07-2008 » |
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"It is regrettable that this incident should have occurred." That looks like subjunctive hangover to me. Trips me up in French all the time. "I'm glad you came" [shush, martle] is more or less "Je suis heureux que tu sois venu" (E&OE ). Subjunctive even though the person is indeed actually there. Deriving in turn from the Latin "ut" clause - which always takes the subjunctive: gaudio ut adfueris |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #683 on: 15:10:32, 17-07-2008 » |
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This is not because of a disinterest in Ferneyhough, but a specific disinterest in hearing all five quartets in one day.
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« Reply #684 on: 16:01:53, 17-07-2008 » |
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This is not because of a disinterest in Ferneyhough, but a specific disinterest in hearing all five quartets in one day.
I think you must mean a 'lack of interest'. Unless you have something to declare that we didn't already know! American apple OED widget gives two uses of 'disinterest', the second being 'lack of interest in something' (the big online OED gives an example of this dating form 1889). |
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« Reply #686 on: 11:14:11, 04-08-2008 » |
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aschamed Rule No 1 for the self-confessed pedant: always proof-read what you cut and paste. |
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« Reply #687 on: 15:55:27, 14-08-2008 » |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7560654.stmAn F for the BBC..... The results reveal striking differences in achievement across England, with the South East getting the most As and the North East getting the least. FEWEST! Tommo
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« Reply #688 on: 19:47:42, 21-08-2008 » |
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A well known poet writes as long ago as 1954:
"Poor Mrs Waldo ...
... what she puts up with ...
... never should of married ... "
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« Reply #689 on: 19:55:40, 21-08-2008 » |
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A well known poet writes as long ago as 1954:
"Poor Mrs Waldo ...
... what she puts up with ...
... never should of married ... "
<Falls to ground in shock>
This phrase sounds perfectly fine for me. Why cann't one say: Never should of married .... This my kind of a phrase. I can imagine saying that. |
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