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« Reply #100 on: December 07, 2005, 03:59:11 PM »
I say things that I know are "wrong." There's a big difference between knowing the rules and following them.
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« Reply #101 on: December 07, 2005, 04:20:23 PM »
OK then.
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« Reply #102 on: December 07, 2005, 08:51:25 PM »
Oops, wrong thread.  How did that happen?
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« Reply #103 on: December 20, 2005, 02:22:45 PM »
I just noticed something one of my managers does all the time.  I didn't catch it until now because he did the same thing three or four times in a row.

He was leaving out "to be."  The only one I remember was, "these plates need detailed."  He not foreign, so I can only imagine it comes from having to abbreviate everything on drawings and cut stuff down until you have just enough to get the point across.
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« Reply #104 on: December 20, 2005, 02:25:44 PM »
Need + past participle strikes again!

I do this. Jonathon wrote a paper on it. It's supposedly from Pennsylvania, but it seems too widespread for that. Do you know where your boss is from? Is he a Utahn born and raised?
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« Reply #105 on: December 20, 2005, 02:26:43 PM »
It's originally from Pennsylvania and Ohio, but it has spread across the Midwest and West.
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« Reply #106 on: December 20, 2005, 02:28:27 PM »
Is it too late to put up a moat to keep it out?  Is it related to German syntax at all?
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« Reply #107 on: December 20, 2005, 02:32:37 PM »
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Need + past participle strikes again!

I do this. Jonathon wrote a paper on it. It's supposedly from Pennsylvania, but it seems too widespread for that. Do you know where your boss is from? Is he a Utahn born and raised?
He's from Oregon.

With some of the crowded drawings we end up with, I can see "to be" being one of the sacrifices.
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« Reply #108 on: December 20, 2005, 02:34:09 PM »
Was this spoken or in writing?
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« Reply #109 on: December 20, 2005, 02:34:46 PM »
Spoken, but I think I've seen it on our drawings, too.
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« Reply #110 on: December 20, 2005, 02:35:49 PM »
:o  
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