countrydirt (February 17th, 2020)
Zounds!
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
TSherbs (February 17th, 2020)
My point exactly. And they lived through it.
Thank goodness MLA and APA now accept "they" as a non-gendered singular pronoun. It's been a useless endeavor trying to teach students that you can't say "A student/they..." because the pronoun "they" doesn't agree in number with "student."
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Dreck (February 19th, 2020)
AzJon (February 19th, 2020), Lady Onogaro (February 26th, 2020)
AzJon (February 19th, 2020)
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. — Horace
(What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke’s on you.)
grainweevil (February 20th, 2020)
Thank Heaven I think in Latin. So I always know what I mean. (I just don't always know what you mean).....Long live "dead" languages!
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Fred— So. Dang. Funny.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
I just came across the following article tonight and found it a fascinating riff on many of the discussion points in the thread:
Garbage Language
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Jon Szanto (February 23rd, 2020)
We've been using "gift" as a verb for nigh on 400 years. The Oxford English Dictionary identifies this usage from 1608.
To gift someone a pen, as opposed to giving someone a pen has a more precise meaning, I guess.
If I gift a Montblanc to my nephew (yeah, right), I do not expect him to return it.
If I give him my Montblanc, I might expect its return, once he's finished writing me a large cheque (yeah, right) with it.
Last edited by Sandy; February 23rd, 2020 at 11:02 AM.
dneal (April 9th, 2020), Lady Onogaro (February 26th, 2020)
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. — Horace
(What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke’s on you.)
VertOlive (February 24th, 2020)
I once saw a corporate clown stand up in front of an auditorium of electrical engineers and say, "We must leverage our synergies to maximize the margin on our deliverables." People turned and looked at each other with interobangs appearing over their heads.
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." -Epicurus-
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