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Sal[Au]pian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 03/23/2007 : 09:35:00
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
i'll set my Liger on ya!!
Is this the current avatar contest or something? It is a weird coincidence as I was reading all about ligers (and tigons, jaglions, pumapards etc.) on Wikipedia yesterday. There is a great quotation from Napoleon Dynamite (which I haven't yet seen)! |
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Ali 
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 09:54:42
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Yes, the previous avatar contest was on hybrids.
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 14:21:09
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Originally posted by redPen
I think/I believe
In a biographical story or a term paper, or anything else in which the author�s opinions are stated in the piece, the opinions written are assumed to be those of the author, unless specified otherwise. It is completely unnecessary to tell your audience that you think or believe the opinion which you are writing. Instead of writing (or saying) �I think Canada is a large country,� simply state �Canada is a large country.� All who read or hear this opinion will know it is yours, unless credited to someone else in the piece.
The counter side of this applies here - it's fine for people here to use "I think...", but it's also fine for them to not. All posts are individuals' statements and thus by definition obviously just consist of their opinions.
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Needless to say . . .
Yup, this is one of the most aggravating  ones.
One I find even worse is literally. People say things like "He is literally the size of an elephant" literally all the time! Another is "I've been busy 24/7" and one more is "He puts in 110% [of the maximum possible]" - I don't mind hyperbole but at least word it in a less prescribed way! |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 14:24:56
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Another I really hate, because it's so twee, is "I love him to bits". What do you mean?! You love him so much that you break him into little bits?  |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 16:59:46
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Here's another one. Happens at work all the time. You're in the middle of something, a meeting or something. And someone pops their head into the office and says, "Oh, I didn't mean to interrupt."
Oh, you didn't? Well, then why did you pop your head into the office and say that?
And usually, that statement is followed by whatever bit of business that person deemed more important than what you were currently doing.
So, what they really should say is "I mean to interrupt." And then carry on with whatever they wanted to say. 
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 17:05:44
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Also, when people say the "Can I ask you a question?" bit, I reply, "You just did." That gets them thinking. They then say, "Can I ask you two questions?" I say, "You just did." And thus continues until they're able to do the proper math to get ahead of the questions they have already asked me.
Just like to be a pain in the  .
EM :) |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 17:12:55
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Montgomery
Or people who bring their kids to movies that are highly inappropriate for them. And let their kids see sex and violence that they really shouldn't be viewing.
Quite. When I worked at a cinema, a family thought they could take their four-year-old into an 18-rated film! They went into the screen with him, but I made the mum take him into an alternative film.
That was good that you did that. That sort of thing just bothers me so much. I want to yell at the people to cough up the money for a sitter if they want to see the movie so badly. Don't harm your child by subjecting them to something they shouldn't see.
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 17:56:09
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How about "Do you know what I'm sayin'?" 
And people with incessant rising inflection on nearly every sentence.
And thoughtless people who leave their nachos on the floor in dark cinemas where other people can trip over them and then, when you do trip on them, they start complaining that you trod on their nachos. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 22:08:44
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
And thoughtless people who leave their nachos on the floor in dark cinemas where other people can trip over them and then, when you do trip on them, they start complaining that you trod on their nachos.
So it was you then? |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/23/2007 : 22:31:08
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
And thoughtless people who leave their nachos on the floor in dark cinemas where other people can trip over them and then, when you do trip on them, they start complaining that you trod on their nachos.
So it was you then?
I'm taking the Fifth.
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 04:13:12
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Rovark
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 11:52:55
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There, They're, Their, my dears
Calm down and don't let these little thing upset you so much.
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MguyXXVI
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 15:58:50
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Originally posted by Salopian
One I find even worse is literally.
I was going to comment on the pronunciation aspects of this oft misused adverb, but it may be a dialect phenomenon, thus not truly fair game for criticism. 
HOWEVER, once, I was visiting with a family where the father, mother and 7 year-old son each peppered their commentary with "litrally" all night long. The pronunciation guides I've consulted would class this as nonstandard.  |
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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 20:21:36
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The (mainly) US usage of momentarily winds me up. According to my dictionary, momentary means "lasting only a moment, short-lived, transitory". This word does NOT mean SOON.
Correct usage is, I believe () "He was momentarily surprised at how many votes his top review had received"
Incorrect usage: "The MERPS will reject another review momentarily".
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Stalean
"Back...OMG"
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Posted - 03/24/2007 : 20:58:38
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Originally posted by Chris C
The (mainly) US usage of momentarily winds me up. According to my dictionary, momentary means "lasting only a moment, short-lived, transitory". This word does NOT mean SOON.
Correct usage is, I believe () "He was momentarily surprised at how many votes his top review had received"
Incorrect usage: "The MERPS will reject another review momentarily".
Not that I use momentarily very often, but it seems MSN Encarta disagrees with you on this one. |
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Hanged or hung?
