smockery
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Aug 23, 2006 17:01:45 GMT -4
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Post by smockery on Aug 3, 2015 19:21:23 GMT -4
Just read this on another site: "There was one gentleman who was obviously in a hurry and we were causing him the most gregarious inconvenience." I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Post by chonies on Aug 3, 2015 19:30:59 GMT -4
However, the idea of a gregarious inconvenience makes me laugh.
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Post by ladyboy on Aug 5, 2015 7:06:09 GMT -4
My mother can be a gregarious inconvenience when she calls me when I'm busy.
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sumire
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Mar 7, 2005 18:45:40 GMT -4
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Post by sumire on Oct 2, 2015 3:58:50 GMT -4
Irregardless, enunciation is our friend: My dad is talking to my mom on the phone, and he starts having trouble understanding what she's talking about. I hear him go "Baby Jesus? What!? The baby Jesus!? I can't understand what you're saying." My parents talk about Jesus Christ about as often as they talk about de-clawing anteaters, so I'm trying to puzzle out what my mom could be talking about--they were talking about my dad's long plane trip tomorrow, he's almost done packing, and finally it hits me--my mom is telling him to take some of these babies--a frequent companion of ours on long, meal-less plane rides.
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Post by ladyboy on Oct 2, 2015 12:41:49 GMT -4
Baby cheeses, baby jesus. You could do worse than making one of those the center of your moral compass.
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Post by chonies on Oct 3, 2015 10:25:47 GMT -4
Can we talk about journalism here? I think Amazon's purchase of my beloved Washington Post has officially ruined the paper, but I don't know anything about journalism so I might be out of my depth. I was reading this article: Whoops! A creationist museum supporter stumbled upon a major fossil find. And then barely into the article was this: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, I know it's a blurry world, with media cross pollinating and format sometimes dictating function and sometimes not, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in an otherwise completely normal article (I could have done without the 'Whoops!' thought), and I need to know if this is what I can expect from now on.
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Post by Mugsy on Oct 3, 2015 11:59:52 GMT -4
That whole article is written like a humour column, peppered with "you know" and "no sir". And yes, starting the header with "Whoops!" and referring to herself, using "I". If it is a column, then fine, but if it's supposed to be feature reporting, then it's terrible. What next, ending a silly story with LOL?
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Post by chonies on Oct 3, 2015 12:07:56 GMT -4
Argh! It's so frustrating, and I feel so grumpy wanting real news from the newspaper. I like Buzzfeed and read it quite a bit, but when I'm reading it, I'm doing so on purpose. I teach information literacy, so I'm not completely out of the loop, but this is annoying. And to whom are they trying to appeal? "Oh, I'm a person who never reads the paper, but there's that shrugging guy, so one print subscription, please!!"
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Post by chonies on Oct 16, 2015 17:04:31 GMT -4
I had a nice conversation this morning in a workshop. The workshop leader and I are synched up about a lot of words and phrases we're putting on notice. I was starting to feel kind of insane, but it was rewarding to know that other people I like also think, "ughhh" when they encounter problematic, scaffolding, best practices, etc. There's nothing wrong with the phrases, but I have word fatigue.
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Post by Mugsy on Oct 16, 2015 20:51:50 GMT -4
Ugh, I am so tired of the interwebs being filled with spelling errors. And I'm not talking about chat forums and such, but supposedly professional websites for actual businesses. Exhibit A: An invitation to a Christmas street market culminating a "Santa Clause parade". I think an entire generation who saw that movie as kids think that's how it's spelled. Exhibit B: A Christmas open house at a gift shop on Nov. 25 and the event is called "T'was the Month Before Christmas". I don't think the gift shop owner knows the purpose of an apostrophe in a contraction. Exhibit C: I was looking for some Lord's Prayer activities for my Sunday school class and came across a nice printable poster that the kids could colour. Except that they spelled trespass as tresspass.
Spellcheck won't even let me type t'was or tresspass, so how does it get into their website copy?
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