Well certainly therapeutic. Cathartic, possibly not.
English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
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R4 Today programme.
"Let's get some sport."
Get?
"Let's get some sport."
Get?
Mick F. Cornwall
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Why does it annoy you?
Thanks
Jonathan
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I'll put this here to avoid derailing another thread which seems to have hit the buffers.
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There's in link in there to a pdf file where the word "landscape" is used thirty times. FWIW, it's not a biography of Capability Brown by Alan Titchmarsh but a review of policing. I've had a go at reading it - which is how I discovered the horticulture - but it needs editing by a successor of Ernest Gowers if it's not to do my head in.
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There's in link in there to a pdf file where the word "landscape" is used thirty times. FWIW, it's not a biography of Capability Brown by Alan Titchmarsh but a review of policing. I've had a go at reading it - which is how I discovered the horticulture - but it needs editing by a successor of Ernest Gowers if it's not to do my head in.
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Give us a few example sentences and show us what word you'd use instead of landscape, or how you'd rewrite them to avoid using the word. I'm curious about this.
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Fascinating word, both in its etymology (the meaning of -scape) and in how it's redeployed as technology changes (... painting, photography, paper, 'phones... )thirdcrank wrote: ↑12 Mar 2022, 8:36amThere's in link in there to a pdf file where the word "landscape" is used thirty times. FWIW, it's not a biography of Capability Brown by Alan Titchmarsh but a review of policing. I've had a go at reading it - which is how I discovered the horticulture - but it needs editing by a successor of Ernest Gowers if it's not to do my head in.
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"Landscape" may have its place but its repeated use figuratively is a turn off for me and not in the sense of a detour.
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Dr Sewell, who is an alumni (sic) of the university, said he had a "real PhD" from there and other honorary degrees so was "not interested in being a victim".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-60758038
It looks as though Sandish Shoker may be an ignorami
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-60758038
It looks as though Sandish Shoker may be an ignorami
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It reads to me as if the "real PhD" is in addition to the honorary award. As for "an alumni" it is a "shoker" but I suppose it's the beginning of the process undergone by data and media.
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There's never been a consensus as to whether the plural of Lotus, as in Lotus cars - like back in 1978 when Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson were running 1-2 in a Grand Prix, as they frequently did that year - is Lotuses or Loti (then again, the plural of consensus is definitely consensuses!).thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 11:23am Dr Sewell, who is an alumni (sic) of the university, said he had a "real PhD" from there and other honorary degrees so was "not interested in being a victim".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-60758038
It looks as though Sandish Shoker may be an ignorami
As for errors like Sandish Shoker's, you can kinda sorta lay a little of the blame on the over-reliance on automatic spell-checking, meaning, if you don't see the red squiggly line under a word then it must be ok except it isn't always. But I know that would be a bit of a lame excuse.
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There would be no red squiggly line under 'alumni' because it's a correct word, although it's not the correct word.
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There was a statement from the factory... the plural is Lotus.kylecycler wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 1:00pmThere's never been a consensus as to whether the plural of Lotus, as in Lotus cars - like back in 1978 when Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson were running 1-2 in a Grand Prix, as they frequently did that year - is Lotuses or Loti (then again, the plural of consensus is definitely consensuses!).
But the origin of the name remains in dispute...
Jonathan
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The difference is, if I heard Murry Walker coming out with loti I'd know it was a joke. 'Sandwich' not so sure.kylecycler wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 1:00pmThere's never been a consensus as to whether the plural of Lotus, as in Lotus cars - like back in 1978 when Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson were running 1-2 in a Grand Prix, as they frequently did that year - is Lotuses or Loti (then again, the plural of consensus is definitely consensuses!).thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 11:23am Dr Sewell, who is an alumni (sic) of the university, said he had a "real PhD" from there and other honorary degrees so was "not interested in being a victim".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-60758038
It looks as though Sandish Shoker may be an ignorami
As for errors like Sandish Shoker's, you can kinda sorta lay a little of the blame on the over-reliance on automatic spell-checking, meaning, if you don't see the red squiggly line under a word then it must be ok except it isn't always. But I know that would be a bit of a lame excuse.
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