02-01-2003 17:29									#31
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin "I'm not going" would be the prefered contraction.

Indeed -- by common consensus. But note how that's actually an irregularity:

You aren't
He isn't
We aren't
They aren't

"I" is the only pronoun, we've decided, that can't contract its form of "to be" with "not." You can see how "amn't" -- which became "ain't" -- would actually make sense.

	02-01-2003 17:30									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Tingkai The downside of English being a living language is the way it gets distorted in places where it is not the native language. I'm still trying to convince my Hong Kong colleagues that the other word for parentheses is "brackets" not "blankets."

	02-01-2003 17:36									#33
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reverse discrimination is valid as long as there are people around who hold the position that it ain't discrimination cause only the power group can discriminate ....capitalization and such obsolete things as . , ! and ? should be eliminated ...after all we have all seen them before

	03-01-2003 01:08									#34
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I can't believe no one else has mentioned how annoying EXTREME is. Everything is EXTREME. Now I'm gonna go eat my EXTREME cereal and later taking a **** on my EXTREME toilet. I hate that word.

	03-01-2003 01:15									#35
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I think your criticism is a little bit extreme Mike

	03-01-2003 01:17									#36
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Hello PH

again what is golf sale please?

i saw it in a videoclip and i remembered you

	03-01-2003 01:17									#37
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please reply now because i have to go away very soon and then ill forget thanx

	03-01-2003 01:19									#38
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extreme was mentioned in the opening article in the opening post.

Or even worse. Xtreme.

But I'll admit I use Right Guard Extreme Sport deoderant because it makes me extremely fresh.

	03-01-2003 01:23									#39
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aaaarghhhhh u didnt answer rich
now i have to go

send me a pm explaining it will you?


thanks bye

god bless you all

	03-01-2003 01:53									#40
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"Best Thing Since Sliced Bread" needs to be purged immediately- Sliced Bread has to be one of the most awful examples of our consumer culture yet. "Hey, how about we take bread, and take away all the things that are appealing about it? You know, the cruncky, good-tasting crust, the moist, tasty inside, all the nutrition... Let's process it, bleach it, turn the crust damp and disgusting and the inside dry and tasteless!" "By Jove, what a brilliant idea!"

	03-01-2003 01:55									#41
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quote: "Best Thing Since Sliced Bread" needs to be purged immediately

Based on your rant, just change "Best" to "Worst".

	03-01-2003 01:58									#42
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The word I want purged from the English language is Britain, British and all other derivatives (excluding maybe a parochial use to describe the geographical location "British Isles"). It confuses too many Americans.

	03-01-2003 02:18									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed "Best Thing Since Sliced Bread" needs to be purged

Your confusing Sliced bread and factory bread (which I agreed is crap) , I for one was glad when the bakery got a bread slicer, you can get it thin, medium, and thick.

We still get whole loafs too (cheaper) , but it's a pain in the ass when the cut of the loaf gets out of whack, (like after a few brews you try cuttin' it straight )

	03-01-2003 02:25									#44
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Frankenfoods

	03-01-2003 02:39									#45
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Of course one man's frankenfood is another man's salvation.

	03-01-2003 03:11									#46
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stop bad mouthing sliced bread!!!

	03-01-2003 03:42									#47
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Ozz: The thing is, I buy whole loaves from the factory (or at least from large-size, supermarket-delivering bakers) and they're fine- when they're whole, crusty and unsliced. It's when they're sliced that they quickly lose all flavour.

	03-01-2003 03:43									#48
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I think Buck has a damn good point about sliced bread, it is actually quite awful and would take a nice loaf over that synthetic crap any day.

Anyway Paiktis, Golf Sale...well I have been out for a couple of hours so I haven't been able to reply (sometimes I think I am not allowed to leave the internet ), if you ever walk down Oxford Street in London you will see lots of these placards pointing you down random back alleys and all over Soho so it would seem, although I have never followed one. Has anyone actually been to that golf sale? Anyway, it is a bit of a cultural icon now, that sign...

	03-01-2003 03:47									#49
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I have, by sheer coincidence (I was walking past it). It's a small unassuming shop selling rather luxury-related golf accesories.

	03-01-2003 04:16									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison if you ever walk down Oxford Street in London you will see lots of these placards pointing you down random back alleys and all over Soho so it would seem, although I have never followed one.

Soho has some very interesting shops.

	03-01-2003 04:21									#51
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin The word I want purged from the English language is Britain, British and all other derivatives (excluding maybe a parochial use to describe the geographical location "British Isles"). It confuses too many Americans.

I agree. It's just alot easier to say, "w ankers."

	03-01-2003 04:29									#52
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quote: Originally posted by aaglo Two more phrases that should be banned: Have a nice day ACK! J/K

Irregardless, fo what you may think, I ain't inflammable.

That really hurt, you know what I mean?



ACK!

	03-01-2003 05:00									#53
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I can't stand that ACK thing.
As for irregardless, that is not a real word :doitnow:

I just noticed that Buck is aka Snapcase. Amusingly, I had wildly different impressions of you two. Snapcase was a much cooler guy.

	03-01-2003 05:10									#54
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quote: Originally posted by MattyBoy I can't stand that ACK thing. As for irregardless, that is not a real word :doitnow: I just noticed that Buck is aka Snapcase. Amusingly, I had wildly different impressions of you two. Snapcase was a much cooler guy.

Irregardless is, unfortunately, a real word, that means the same as regardless.

As far as that ACK thing:

ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK! ACK!



ACK!

	03-01-2003 10:20									#55
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Just thought of a few that really get me:

"Escaping certain death" -- If death is certain, you can't escape it.

"Changing the course of history" -- History is what has already happened. You can only change that if you have a time machine, and I don't know anyone that does.

	03-01-2003 10:22									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Tingkai I'm still trying to convince my Hong Kong colleagues that the other word for parentheses is "brackets" not "blankets."

Aren't brackets them square things?

	03-01-2003 10:23									#57
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and what are these? {}
brackets []
parenthesis ()

	03-01-2003 10:24									#58
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quote: Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly The unholy trinity: Infotainment Edutainment Advertorial

No "infomercial?"

	03-01-2003 10:25									#59
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident and what are these? {} brackets [] parenthesis ()

Braces

	03-01-2003 10:26									#60
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Another irregularity in English:

The plural form of parenthesis is parentheses, not paranthesises.