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English & Linguistics / Re: You keep on using that word

« on: February 10, 2018, 11:00:02 PM »

It's "quantum leap" specifically that seems to be making me prickle a bit. Probably because one of the documentaries I watched about Darwin really liked to use "quantum leap" to describe everything about evolutionary biology.

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English & Linguistics / Re: You keep on using that word

« on: February 08, 2018, 04:55:12 PM »

Today's "you keep using that word": quantum.

From my quick googling, "quantum" as a word basically amounts to "a specific amount, usually small". But people use it colloquially because of its correlation to "quantum physics". Which... hmm.

Thoughts?

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: October 16, 2012, 05:04:59 PM »

:zaps with taser:
:CPR:

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: July 15, 2012, 04:04:41 PM »

My mind! 

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert

« on: May 22, 2012, 03:18:21 PM »

Whoa, you were STATE OFFICER? That's so cool!

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert

« on: May 20, 2012, 02:25:44 PM »

She's VP elect 
Though she's struggling in English.

I'm working on it... I promises.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert

« on: May 09, 2012, 08:17:36 PM »

Well the FFA has a lot of symbolism that it likes to incorporate into itself, so since the flag represents the United States, and the FFA is a national organization, the reporter (the chapter officer who says this little speech during the opening ceremonies of a meeting) represents the interests of the FFA through various media. Therefore, according to FFA logic, the reporter is equal to the flag symbolically.

It just didn't sound right to me when the person acting as reporter would say it.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert

« on: May 09, 2012, 07:57:41 PM »

Is this statement grammatically correct?

As the flag covers the United States of America, so I strive to inform the people in order that every man, woman and child may know that the FFA is a national organization that reaches from the state of Alaska to Puerto Rico and from the state of Maine to Hawaii.

It seems to me that the "so I strive" is wrong in some way. Like an improper clause or something??? It's been bugging me ever since I went to the most recent FFA meeting that my chapter has every month.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I don't have an accent

« on: March 12, 2012, 08:06:18 PM »

I say eye-dee-uh. I don't understand you guys with your [ai'dI] and upside down e's and such.

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English & Linguistics / Re: I don't have an accent

« on: March 12, 2012, 04:44:04 PM »

Annie's points are true, but that chicken is actually a Red Sex Link, not a Rhode Island Red.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert

« on: March 06, 2012, 07:48:38 PM »

How do you pronounce "butcher"? I have always pronounced it but-chir (totally failed at the special thing you guys do with the stuff and the italics) but pooka and the Man say it's boot-chir.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: February 16, 2012, 08:24:49 PM »

How does that even- I can't-

Can someone explain to me how the kerning could get that messed up?

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English & Linguistics / Re: The spurious etymology of the day

« on: February 11, 2012, 05:45:45 PM »

I just read this thread.  It's AMAZING.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Holey Cwap

« on: August 31, 2010, 05:23:22 PM »

Today, I was doing some correcting for my Teacher Aid class.  A seventh grader had written their name, and next to it put "apsint".  :facepalm:

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English & Linguistics / Re: If I lay here

« on: July 23, 2010, 03:17:40 PM »

I sing it as "If I lay here/ If I just lay here/ Would you lie with me/ And just forget the world".

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English & Linguistics / Holey Cwap

« on: April 12, 2010, 04:18:12 PM »

Wow pooka.  Just... wow.  

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English & Linguistics / Heh Heh

« on: December 14, 2007, 01:55:00 PM »

 

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English & Linguistics / I hate journalistic writing

« on: June 18, 2007, 12:24:17 PM »

Don't open this at work or while drinking.

:drinks water:
:opens link:
:laughs:
:chokes:
:swallows water:
:lols:
:Micropook freaks out because I'm laughing so hard I'm crying AND because I won't tell him what is funny:
:Breathes:
OK. I'm fine. I think.....:etc:

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English & Linguistics / Between you and I

« on: September 21, 2006, 03:09:47 PM »

So does that make it good or awesome?