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English & Linguistics / Word Usage Pet peeve
« on: October 11, 2005, 12:35:58 PM »
Here's one that I just noticed recently: "opposite tact". It's "tack", guys.
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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right
« on: September 27, 2005, 10:01:44 AM »
For a while I had trouble with "georeference". This was something of a problem at my last job, as I had to talk about georeferenced data fairly frequently.
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English & Linguistics / I commit to becoming? or become?
« on: September 25, 2005, 11:46:46 AM »
I am Mike #55 on hatrack. I only answer unanswerable questions. Ramen.
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English & Linguistics / I commit to becoming? or become?
« on: September 23, 2005, 03:06:06 PM »
I'd actually prefer "I commit to becoming...". If you use the infinitive "to become", it means you're no longer using the phrase "to commit to something" because the "to" can only be used in one function at a time. I'm not even sure what "to commit + inf." would mean.
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