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English & Linguistics / Feb(r)uary
« on: February 17, 2009, 05:12:59 PM »
Febtober?
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English & Linguistics / Editing help request
« on: November 19, 2008, 07:08:23 PM »
The remote past, like two years ago?
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English & Linguistics / Editing help request
« on: November 19, 2008, 06:33:12 PM »
Thanks. That's what I said.
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English & Linguistics / Editing help request
« on: November 19, 2008, 06:09:02 PM »
Should I [sic] British spellings if the audience is American?
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English & Linguistics / Is "incentive" a verb now??
« on: February 29, 2008, 11:10:44 AM »Quote
I've heard it before, and I dislike it, too. What ever happened to incentivize?Incentivize is alive and well in the DoD.
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: February 15, 2008, 12:37:17 PM »
Oh my, he actually said "happier than a pig in [word that would be much more apporpriate at sakeriver]" today. 
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: February 15, 2008, 12:29:30 PM »
He consistently uses metaphors that are either nonsensical ones like this or are potentially offensive ones like, "it's time for us all to open up our kimonos and let us all see what we have." I think writing them down is the only way I'm going to be able to continue attending meetings with him. I very nearly burst into laughter at today's.
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: February 15, 2008, 12:13:45 PM »
is it? o_O
edit: does that mean the cave part makes sense to you? o_O
edit: does that mean the cave part makes sense to you? o_O
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: February 15, 2008, 11:57:27 AM »
This quote is the only note I took during an hour long meeting today:
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If you're in a cave and you have a candle and someone comes along with a flashlight, you think you're in tall cotton.
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: January 31, 2008, 11:57:40 AM »Quote
Sometimes the keeper of the vision gets in the way of progress
I really wish I could provide the context for that.
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English & Linguistics / Technical Term vs. Common Usage
« on: December 18, 2007, 01:02:28 PM »
Mass is the concentration of combat power. 
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English & Linguistics / Ow. My head.
« on: August 16, 2006, 08:56:50 AM »
Your mother abandons the high road all the time.
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English & Linguistics / In defense of the word, "sucks."
« on: August 08, 2006, 11:02:50 AM »Quote
Unless you merely made that post so that you could use the word suck, I think you're missing the point.Of course I was doing it to be funny.
<--When I make this face, it's a joke.
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English & Linguistics / In defense of the word, "sucks."
« on: August 08, 2006, 10:45:58 AM »
Man, this is killing my interest in learning the origins of words. It would totally suck to have that sort of baggage associated with a word.
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English & Linguistics / Domesday Book now available online
« on: August 08, 2006, 07:56:09 AM »
woah, in firefox i can't tell there's an image missing, but in ie (thanks to new extension) there's a red x.
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English & Linguistics / Ich liebt mich etwas Deutsch
« on: August 07, 2006, 11:02:54 AM »
I'm not well read enough to know what your first post on this thread is quoting.
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English & Linguistics / Irregular plurals
« on: August 03, 2006, 05:54:51 AM »
Oh, good. I got that one right!
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: August 01, 2006, 12:00:53 PM »
Exactly.
edit: I'm sure he meant the second, but the first is what the email says.
edit: I'm sure he meant the second, but the first is what the email says.
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: August 01, 2006, 10:19:15 AM »Quote
Done sent to team for comments.
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English & Linguistics / *cries*
« on: July 26, 2006, 07:04:44 AM »
Yeah, I think I'm going to reword it entirely.
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English & Linguistics / *cries*
« on: July 25, 2006, 02:29:12 PM »
Really? I mean, if it were "How does the program's IPT structure provide for system integration?" I wouldn't find the possessive confusing. But there are two things! Is it still does?
"Is it still does?"
"Is it still does?"
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English & Linguistics / *cries*
« on: July 25, 2006, 02:00:35 PM »Quote
How do the program's IPT structure and operation provide for system integration?
or
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How does the program's IPT structure and operation provide for system integration?
I think it's the first.
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English & Linguistics / *cries*
« on: July 11, 2006, 01:01:14 PM »
I keep seeing people use "karma" when they mean "fate" or "destiny" so much so that I'm starting to wonder if it's me that doesn't understand karma. Is asking them to clarify their use of the word acceptable? Or is it like asking people if whatever they've called ironic really is? I've been fussed at for that, but I'm usually honest in asking since I have no grasp of the concept "irony".
edit: dictionary.com agrees with people. wiki agrees with me. *sigh*
edit: dictionary.com agrees with people. wiki agrees with me. *sigh*
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English & Linguistics / Quotes from work
« on: June 16, 2006, 12:53:45 PM »
*insert "nihilistic" anecdote here*