pretty ugly
contemporary news
free gift
irregardless
where are we at
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An endless list of words and phrases designed to make SWMBO cringe.?ÿ
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how does she feel about "could care less..."?
that one always causes a hair or two to stand up on my neck.
Just how ugly is pretty ugly?
A 2 bagger. ?????ÿ
Grammar Police, unite!?ÿ Thanks for the laughs and making me feel like I'm not the only one.?ÿ I can't stand the complete lack of editorial oversight in the current state of media.
One of my personal favorites is the term "pre-owned."?ÿ Why can't we just say it's used?
I just now saw this in a news report on the virus. Sheesh.
Distance in square units? And the conversion isn't square but rectangular.
Supermarkets in Beijing must keep customers at least 2 square meters (roughly 4 ft. by 5 ft.) apart from each other
Great. That sounds like a quote I heard tonight while listening to a portion of the Ken Burns production on the history of country music. A musician told of how his conservative mother had scolded him for singing a song that mentioned beer (he was about 10 years old at the time) while entertaining a sibling on the front porch of their rural home. He said the neighbor lady, who lived about two acres away down in the holler, had yelled for him to keep singing because she loved his music.
Yoda says, "Such foolish worries, you have."
I with you on the 9 AM, and there aren't any other noons, but there is another 12, so that one doesn't bother me.
There are two groups of people in the world, those who care about grammar and those "who could care less."
You got me. My only defense, not an excuse, is that word got in as a last second edit before posting.
From The Elements of Style, Strunk & White:
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."
Grammar Police, unite!?ÿ Thanks for the laughs and making me feel like I'm not the only one.?ÿ I can't stand the complete lack of editorial oversight in the current state of media.
One of my personal favorites is the term "pre-owned."?ÿ Why can't we just say it's used?
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Then there is?ÿscientific illiteracy.
From the original Star Wars:
"made the kessel run in under 12 parsecs"
That always made me cringe, SWMBO?ÿsays; "Its not that kind of movie."
Didn't bother her at all.
From the original Star Wars:
It has always bugged me that R2D2 had perfect understanding of human speech but could not produce speech.?ÿ That's entirely backward. Production is the easy part, and recognition the hard part.?ÿ At the time the movie came out we had computer-produced speech, but reliable recognition was still a distant goal.
And aerodynamic swoops in the vacuum of space? I'm willing to accept dilithium crystals, warp drives, and death stars for the purpose of an entertaining movie, but let's not violate the simplest basic physics.
Then there is?ÿscientific illiteracy.
Somewhat pertinent to the present situation, Andromeda Strain was entertaining for a while but the ending made me totally angry. Besides the deus ex machina aspect, there is the scientific impossibility that every single copy of this mysterious organism "mutated" at once. That's not how mutation works.
The movie Gravity was entertaining for a while, despite a lot of technical discrepancies.?ÿ But the big one that ruined it was when?ÿ the two astronauts catch on to the space station and have reached zero relative velocity with it.?ÿ Then somehow there is this irresistable force that pulls the man away despite his clutching to her leg.?ÿ After matching velocity he should be floating and could hold on with his little finger.
I don't watch a lot of movies because things like this ruin them for me.
By far the bravest Wordsmiths are those that flirt in the nautical environment. For example on a yacht there ain't no ropes except for the one tied to a bucket, even the one tied to a dingy ain't a rope - it's a "painter", and the "main sheet" ain't the big sail, it's a rope, tied to the big sail.
Yep, there really ain't much point rowing up to the dock and asking Joe Public to catch your painter.
I read recently a news article regarding poor performance of a ferry service (propeller fell off). And the first Commenteer made the mistake of calling the bit of water between the two bits of land that the ferry sailed as a "Straight" (should have been Strait). All comments thereafter only dealt with that mistake, and poor fella was crucified by the nautical team.
"Canada Closes Country to Non-citizens, Trudeau"
That's rather harsh - and non-Canadian - not letting the Prime Minister in.?ÿ
