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Post by LAX on Sept 17, 2017 20:45:31 GMT -4
Thanks for all the info chonies. As I feared, the answer is complicated but I feel less like a cultural villain for using 'the' in the context I did.
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Post by chonies on Sept 17, 2017 22:03:23 GMT -4
You're welcome! I think it's becoming more common, but when it comes to language, you can say, "Saturnian people are total douchebags" and comply with the style choice, or say, "we can learn from the Saturnians, who may have the cure for cancer."
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Post by batmom on Sept 18, 2017 12:39:01 GMT -4
I would say if you could add 'people' at the end (or it's implied) then 'the' makes sense. The Canadians/the Canadian people. The French/the French people. The Haida/ the Haida people.
I was listening to Reply All and they featured a guy who regularly edits Wikipedia to correct all usages of "comprised of." It reminded me when I tried to use it, correctly, and a colleague corrected it to 'comprised of' with a note that how I'd used it didn't sound right. I changed the word entirely, figuring that whether I used it correctly or incorrectly, at least 50% of the readers would think it was wrong.
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Post by laurenj on Nov 15, 2017 12:52:59 GMT -4
Previously TV (like TWoP back in the day) is a never-ending font of misused and misspelled expressions and it never fails to make me laugh.
Today's favorite: "wholly molly."
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Post by batmom on Nov 15, 2017 13:19:04 GMT -4
I was listening to a podcast the other day and the other person kept saying "wheelbarrel" over and over. It was awesome.
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Post by laurenj on Nov 15, 2017 13:48:04 GMT -4
I was listening to a podcast the other day and the other person kept saying "wheelbarrel" over and over. It was awesome. I have a co-worker in her early 30s who honestly thought that was correct until last year, when one of us caught her saying it and corrected it. She had no idea. I have another co-worker, who besides committing the crime of saying "irregardless" repeatedly, says "automagically" and I have no idea whether she's joking or not. Based on what I know of her (very smart person, but moreso in the area of numbers and finance), I'm going to say it's not a joke.
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Post by mrspickles on Nov 15, 2017 14:31:34 GMT -4
I was listening to a podcast the other day and the other person kept saying "wheelbarrel" over and over. It was awesome. I have a co-worker in her early 30s who honestly thought that was correct until last year, when one of us caught her saying it and corrected it. She had no idea. I have another co-worker, who besides committing the crime of saying "irregardless" repeatedly, says "automagically" and I have no idea whether she's joking or not. Based on what I know of her (very smart person, but moreso in the area of numbers and finance), I'm going to say it's not a joke. I am totally stealing 'automagically'! I think it will pair very nicely with my highly precise '90-most percent of' statistic.
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Post by ladyboy on Nov 16, 2017 16:25:42 GMT -4
I really like automagically too. I'm introducing it to my 11 year old.
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Post by chonies on Mar 7, 2018 20:41:27 GMT -4
I swear to Xenu, I am on the verge of snapping. Two of my 30ish years old coworkers send me messages and emails that have non-questions punctuated with question marks because that’s how they sound in their upspeaking habits.
Actual examples from today alone: “I think my sound was off?” “I thought Bertha said she would take that?” “1pm works for me?”
It’s maddening and it makes me think they’re both stupid, which they aren’t.
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Post by mrspickles on Mar 7, 2018 20:56:25 GMT -4
I swear to Xenu, I am on the verge of snapping. Two of my 30ish years old coworkers send me messages and emails that have non-questions punctuated with question marks because that’s how they sound in their upspeaking habits. Actual examples from today alone: “I think my sound was off?” “I thought Bertha said she would take that?” “1pm works for me?” It’s maddening and it makes me think they’re both stupid, which they aren’t. Cheese and crackers- it's bad enough that you have to hear the upward inflection, but to have to read it as well would be torture.
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