Author Topic: Funny English and Linguistics stuff... (Read 216952 times)

Farmgirl · « **Reply #1175 on:** September 04, 2016, 06:33:54 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on August 03, 2016, 04:10:39 PM

Um . . . no.

Now I'm debating whether I should respond.

I keep checking there to see if you responded and educated her; but so far... nothing.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1176 on:** September 06, 2016, 11:27:26 AM »

I decided on the indirect approach: writing a blog post about it instead.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1177 on:** September 15, 2016, 09:18:52 AM »

The OED defines burglarize as "To rob burglariously; to break into by violence for the purpose of theft."

Burglariously!

rivka · « **Reply #1178 on:** September 15, 2016, 01:23:11 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1179 on:** September 15, 2016, 01:28:08 PM »

burglar : burglarious :: felon : felonious

Apparently it was a real word back in the 1800s when "burglarize" first came into vogue, but it has since fallen by the wayside. And like many entries in the OED, it obviously hasn't been updated in a long time.

rivka · « **Reply #1180 on:** September 15, 2016, 01:55:22 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on September 15, 2016, 01:28:08 PM

burglar : burglarious :: felon : felonious

The parallel I was thinking of was
burglar : burglarious :: glory : glorious

but either way, burglarious?!

Jonathon · « **Reply #1181 on:** September 15, 2016, 02:00:35 PM »

Seriously.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1182 on:** September 16, 2016, 11:13:17 AM »

A funny thing. I was just reading about the etymology of "burglar", and still had that browser window open when I was reading your post.

Did you steal my idea, burglariously?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1183 on:** September 16, 2016, 11:31:44 AM »

I prefer to steal things piratiously.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1184 on:** September 16, 2016, 02:01:59 PM »

When we would go out to dinner, sometimes I'd get up from the table to go to the bathroom, and I'd leave my purse there, telling my husband to keep an eye on it. He was instructed to yell, "Stop! Thief!" if anyone tried to take it.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1185 on:** October 06, 2016, 02:31:01 PM »

Check out the last question and answer for October.

rivka · « **Reply #1186 on:** October 06, 2016, 04:17:39 PM »

Hah!

(And I disagree with them re Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. Well, not that particular case, which does primarily seem to be written with and. But the general case, where there are far more examples of hyphenated-hyphenates with no and. They are correct in their reasoning, but in most cases it's simply not what is done.)

Jonathon · « **Reply #1187 on:** October 24, 2016, 10:38:54 AM »

Kate Boots · « **Reply #1188 on:** November 02, 2016, 03:02:08 PM »

Play WWF with me. I am too far away to punch you.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1189 on:** November 04, 2016, 07:49:40 PM »

I tried WWF a while back and didn't like it. Something about the board design tends to make games unbalanced, in my opinion.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1190 on:** December 12, 2016, 08:19:11 AM »

Ela · « **Reply #1191 on:** December 12, 2016, 12:26:37 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1192 on:** January 04, 2017, 10:07:58 AM »

Note the second question.

rivka · « **Reply #1193 on:** January 04, 2017, 11:02:06 AM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1194 on:** January 04, 2017, 11:55:33 AM »

A find-and-replace query of "km" to "kilometres" obviously went awry.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1195 on:** January 04, 2017, 02:12:31 PM »

Maybe that was his name before he shortened it for professional reasons.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1196 on:** February 22, 2017, 10:00:28 AM »

It's now been fixed in the article. (And I almost don't want to link to it, because it's not a very good article in the first place.)

Porter · « **Reply #1197 on:** February 22, 2017, 12:02:03 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #1198 on:** February 22, 2017, 02:09:17 PM »

Someone decided to illustrate it.

Porter · « **Reply #1199 on:** February 23, 2017, 10:24:25 AM »

I did *not* need that this morning.