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Post by granolamom on Oct 23, 2014 17:42:36 GMT -4
Hey, steamy people, I have a completely unrelated usage question. If you are "charged with" a task, say as a teacher is charged with following a particular curriculum or a harbormaster is charged with ensuring safe passage for vessels from the harbor, and you don't do it, what have you done? I have "ignored" the task right now, but is there a stronger or better word?
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Post by chonies on Oct 23, 2014 18:04:07 GMT -4
It depends on the task, I suppose. Neglected, declined, betrayed, spurned, deserted, abandoned, cast aside...
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Post by granolamom on Oct 24, 2014 0:42:01 GMT -4
Thanks! Actually, I stuck with "ignored," although "betrayed" is good. The party in question did not perform its duty out of laziness more than anything else. (But I'm not bitter.)
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Post by mrspickles on Oct 24, 2014 18:55:44 GMT -4
Thanks! Actually, I stuck with "ignored," although "betrayed" is good. The party in question did not perform its duty out of laziness more than anything else. (But I'm not bitter.) Would 'shirked' apply? Or even 'neglected to'?
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Post by chonies on Oct 24, 2014 19:17:11 GMT -4
Ooh, how steamy! I love 'shirked.'
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Post by narm on Oct 24, 2014 19:49:58 GMT -4
Shirk is awesome! Rhymes with jerk! Coincidence?? I think not...
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Post by mrspickles on Oct 24, 2014 19:51:32 GMT -4
Shirk is awesome! Rhymes with jerk! Coincidence?? I think not... I love you two so hard right now!
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Post by granolamom on Oct 25, 2014 9:05:05 GMT -4
Oooh, "shirk" is delicious. Actually I found out last night that the group intentionally decided not to uphold its own ruling, so I'm rewriting madly. Thanks all!
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Post by eclair on Nov 3, 2014 16:28:01 GMT -4
This is making me giggle at the reference desk like a crazy librarian:
"To the Editor:
I was grateful to see my book "This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage" mentioned in Paperback Row (Oct. 19). When highlighting a few of the essays in the collection, the review mentions topics ranging from "her stabilizing second marriage to her beloved dog" without benefit of comma, thus giving the impression that Sparky and I are hitched. While my love for my dog is deep he married a dog named Maggie at Parnasus Books last summer as part of a successful fund-raiser for the Nashville Humane Association. I am married to Karl VanDevender. We are all very happy in our respective unions.
Ann Patchett, Nashville"
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Post by batmom on Nov 6, 2014 13:24:44 GMT -4
OMG, I saw a headline about an author clarifying that she wasn't married to her dog but I didn't click it so I was left wondering what had led her to feel the need to make that clarification. I admit that my mind went to 'crazy lady is too close to her dog' and not 'missing comma.'
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