Author Topic: You keep on using that word (Read 35097 times)

pooka · « **Reply #100 on:** July 29, 2010, 05:48:44 PM »

My homemade dinners are TV dinners. If you think about my initials.

rivka · « **Reply #101 on:** February 06, 2011, 03:34:56 PM »

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HS seniors looking for summer job. Very liable and responsible and willing to work hard.

Jonathon · « **Reply #102 on:** February 06, 2011, 09:40:31 PM »

I'm not even sure what they intended there.

Porter · « **Reply #103 on:** February 06, 2011, 09:48:13 PM »

Reliable.

Jonathon · « **Reply #104 on:** February 06, 2011, 09:50:58 PM »

Oh, right.

rivka · « **Reply #105 on:** February 06, 2011, 10:29:02 PM »

Except, apparently, when it comes to proper English usage.

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #106 on:** February 07, 2011, 05:22:44 AM »

Ah. I guessed it was "likable."

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #107 on:** February 07, 2011, 08:12:04 AM »

Well, you can only be reliable if you've already been liable at least once before. The second time you do it, then it's reliable.

You can hardly blame the Young Thing for lack of liability experience, no?

The Genuine · « **Reply #108 on:** February 07, 2011, 02:30:59 PM »

Don't be retarded.

pooka · « **Reply #109 on:** February 07, 2011, 08:32:50 PM »

But I was never tarded the first time.

rivka · « **Reply #110 on:** March 15, 2011, 11:41:02 AM »

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I would like to be the first to offer you a well deserved congratulations. You are scheduled to be published in the 2012 Edition of [publication we are trying to sell you]. Your contact information was acquired by our research staff, who pour over academic journals, conference lists, and published papers in an effort to find the most accomplished academics nationwide.

(emphasis mine)

Honey? Glue? Water?

dkw · « **Reply #111 on:** March 15, 2011, 11:54:42 AM »

Sincerity. Their letter is dripping with it.

rivka · « **Reply #112 on:** March 15, 2011, 01:23:19 PM »

Porter · « **Reply #113 on:** March 15, 2011, 03:16:25 PM »

Quote from: rivka on March 15, 2011, 11:41:02 AM

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I would like to be the first to offer you a well deserved congratulations. You are scheduled to be published in the 2012 Edition of [publication we are trying to sell you]. Your contact information was acquired by our research staff, who pour over academic journals, conference lists, and published papers in an effort to find the most accomplished academics nationwide.
(emphasis mine)

Honey? Glue? Water?

What's the correct word, then?

The Genuine · « **Reply #114 on:** March 15, 2011, 03:42:17 PM »

Pore.

Porter · « **Reply #115 on:** March 15, 2011, 05:26:37 PM »

Huh. I had no idea.

Icarus · « **Reply #116 on:** April 09, 2011, 03:41:51 PM »

I am finding some debate online as to whether instinctually and instinctively are in fact synonyms. To my ear they are not. Instinctually, if it's even a word at all, would seem to me to be appropriate to a discussion specifically about instincts--like a science discussion. If you're simply saying that an action occurred without particular thought or planning, the word would seem to me to be instinctively.

Thoughts? Sources?

Jonathon · « **Reply #117 on:** April 09, 2011, 04:51:53 PM »

My feelings agree with yours. Merriam-Webster has instinctually under the entry for instinct, but without a separate definition. The OED does not have an entry for instinctually, but going off of the entry for instinctual, I'd say that it refers more generally to something having to do with instincts while instinctively is usually used to mean something arising from instinct. Here's what the OED says about instinctively:

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In an instinctive manner; by instinct; by some innate prompting; without conscious thought or purpose.

and instinctual:

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Of or pertaining to, involving or depending upon, instinct.

Icarus · « **Reply #118 on:** April 09, 2011, 05:38:49 PM »

Thanks!

rivka · « **Reply #119 on:** September 15, 2011, 09:30:52 AM »

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radial button

hee!

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #120 on:** September 15, 2011, 09:40:35 AM »

What's that?

rivka · « **Reply #121 on:** September 15, 2011, 09:44:01 AM »

What someone elsewhere thinks a radio button is called, apparently.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #122 on:** September 15, 2011, 09:49:36 AM »

Oh! Like radio tires!

rivka · « **Reply #123 on:** September 15, 2011, 09:51:20 AM »

Exactly.

Jonathon · « **Reply #124 on:** September 15, 2011, 10:09:57 AM »

That should go in the Eggcorn Database.