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« Reply #75 on: October 01, 2007, 02:35:36 PM »
It would be cool if there were something that would automatically correct the passive-aggressive voice.

See if you can work on that, why don't you.  I'd do it myself, but I'm too busy being late for meetings and forgetting to pick up my husband's dry cleaning.
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« Reply #76 on: October 01, 2007, 02:38:21 PM »
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I want you to make something that would automatically correct the passive-aggressive voice.

I'd do it myself, except I don't want to.
It ain't automatic, but it's a start.
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« Reply #77 on: October 01, 2007, 03:09:50 PM »
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« Reply #78 on: October 08, 2007, 01:59:20 PM »
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« Reply #79 on: January 02, 2008, 02:20:16 PM »
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« Reply #80 on: January 02, 2008, 02:49:29 PM »
I'm awfully quotable.  How's about I lay some quotable stuff on you, and you can quote me on it?

Tomorrow is the second day of the rest of your life.  Prepare for it today.
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« Reply #81 on: January 02, 2008, 03:30:57 PM »
Have you ever considered a career writing fortunes for fortune cookies?

Speaking of which, on New Year's Eve I got a fortune that read, "Love, or Money? Or neither?" What the crap kind of fortune is that?
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« Reply #82 on: January 02, 2008, 03:35:10 PM »
I'd say that I get an actual fortune in my fortune cookies less than 10% of the time.
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« Reply #83 on: January 02, 2008, 04:07:36 PM »
Oh!  You are fortune's fool!
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« Reply #84 on: January 03, 2008, 09:34:41 AM »
Because I expect a fortune cookie to actually have a fortune in it?
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« Reply #85 on: January 03, 2008, 12:46:26 PM »
Porter:

You will meet someone today who will solve one of your financial problems.
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« Reply #86 on: January 03, 2008, 12:48:45 PM »
Porter:

That roast pork lo mein you just ate?  That wasn't pork.  It was the other other white meat.
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« Reply #87 on: January 16, 2008, 04:42:04 PM »
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And I'm not terribly invested in this. While I do think we should keep the fewer/less distinction, if it becomes accepted not to (as "hopefully" officially now means what it did not used to), I will grit my teeth and bear it.

Meanwhile, I will cheerfully gripe about "10 items or less" signs.
Standard English has never had the fewer/less distinction as prescriptivists state it. less has been used with count nouns for a thousand years. In 1770 someone named Baker wrote that he didn't like it, and somehow his opinion was repeated by many writers as a rule. But there is no grammatical or historical justification for it.
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« Reply #88 on: January 16, 2008, 04:47:30 PM »
Goofy -- who are you?
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« Reply #89 on: January 16, 2008, 04:51:39 PM »
Someone who somehow came across my Arrant Pedantry blog several months ago and who has a blog of his own dedicated mostly to cool and obscure etymologies.

Welcome!
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« Reply #90 on: January 16, 2008, 04:54:06 PM »
Cool.  I just assumed that everybody else already knew who he was.

Welcome, Goofy.
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« Reply #91 on: January 16, 2008, 04:55:55 PM »
So, did y'all get the science/shit connection from the same source, or were you his source?
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« Reply #92 on: January 16, 2008, 04:57:08 PM »
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Someone who somehow came across my Arrant Pedantry blog several months ago and who has a blog of his own dedicated mostly to cool and obscure etymologies.

Welcome!
er, yes. Hello!
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« Reply #93 on: January 16, 2008, 05:41:30 PM »
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So, did y'all get the science/shit connection from the same source, or were you his source?
uncanny coincidence.
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« Reply #94 on: January 16, 2008, 09:27:07 PM »
I'm slightly late is saying this, but I just became aware of your existence, so...welcome to  the forum, goofy!
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« Reply #95 on: February 04, 2008, 08:00:19 PM »
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« Reply #96 on: February 05, 2008, 08:17:53 AM »
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But I think the final straw was annoyance with a lot of my fellow editors. Almost none of them seemed interested in doing anything other than following the strictures laid out in style guides and usage manuals (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage was somehow exempt from reference). And far too often, the changes they made did nothing to improve the clarity, readability, or accuracy of the text. Without any depth of knowledge about the issues, they were left without the ability to make informed judgements about what should be changed.

Well said.
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« Reply #97 on: February 05, 2008, 08:28:21 AM »
Thanks.
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« Reply #98 on: February 05, 2008, 11:36:08 AM »
Check out the comment!
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« Reply #99 on: February 05, 2008, 11:42:09 AM »
I know! I was pretty excited when I saw that. I wonder how he came across my blog.
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