Just curious, what are you referring to here?
Nuh uh. I also think the wheel was invented, but I can’t tell you by whom; I also think that the flat-screen television was invented, but I can’t tell you by whom. That’s an absurd requirement on your part.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Disagreed. How can this possibly cause any confusion? What cost to the expressive power of the language do you see here?
It makes their use of the language less efficient, inasmuch as it makes it more difficult for them to communicate to other English speakers. If a Chinese person speaks English to a Korean person and doesn’t use articles, and the Korean person easily understands the Chinese person, it’s silly to refer to the exchange as using “incorrect” English.
Agreed. I love me some subjunctive and mourn its passing–but only because it actually lessens the expressive value of the language.
It’s a great neologism, and unless you give me a better one, I’ll keep using it.
Daniel
Oh, you know, when people say “aight” instead of “all right”. Actually, I don’t know why I included that one; it really doesn’t bother me at all.
Even if dropping the g is perfectly fine where you come from, when you interact with educated people they’re likely to look down on you for doing so. It’s fine to use “prolonics” (now there’s an invented word) or ebonics if that’s what makes you comfortable around your fellows, but it holds you back when you want to move out of the setting you’re in.
Is that British? I don’t think I’ve heard that here.
This is just a silly semantic argument over the meaning of the word “incorrect”. And when did I stop anyone to correct their English? Are you in the habit of reading too much into people’s posts?
No, it’s hip hop lingo. Turn on MTV - you’ll hear it.
I did give you the option of telling me when. And you can’t because it’s an evolutionary process. You can’t tell me when the first human baby was born, for much the same reason.
In correct usage, the words carry meanings that are nearly opposite. I think it makes for a much tighter, efficient phrase to say, “This system comprises x, y, and z”, than to say “This system is composed of x, y, and z”, mostly because the *is composed of * construction is clumsy and much like the dreaded passive voice. It’s absurd to say is comprised of because comprises carries the same meaning all by itself.
I think the inefficiency here comes from the jarring effect that dropping the article can have to the ears of a native speaker. For instance, I often mistype -ion endings as “ino”, so if I say “definitinos” to you as a joke, you’ll understand me, but wouldn’t you find it distracting nonetheless, if I did it habitually?
I don’t know why people say it’s dying. I think the present subjunctive is alive and well in America, at least. It’s far less moribund than the distinction between compose and comprise, at any rate.
You can have that one. I’m keeping prolonics.
–Spectre of Pithecanthropus, speaking bourgeonics as far back as he can remember.
The ‘Deleted Items’ folder.
Clearly that is some fucked up joke. They’re not deleted they’re just moved to a fucking folder named ‘Deleted Items’ Why the fucking fuck do you THINK I deleted them??? to get RID of them.
It’s like saying “And here is a bucket for things that don’t exist”.
I have my outlook set to permanently delete instead of moving stuff to that folder, why does this rule not apply to the ONE folder that as a rule it is the safest to apply to… the “junk e-mail” folder!! I just recieved some new spam. clicked on ‘add sender to blocked senders list’ (which must be done one by one, I haven’t figured out the way, if it exists, to apply this to a bulk of e-mails, it moves them to the junk e-mail folder. I go there, select all, delete, it moves them to the ‘deleted items’ folder.
And before you start… I know it’s purpose is to catch accidentally deleted e-mails. well like mos…(thinking)… most worthy [of owning/using a computer] users I am not stupid.
Although it does give me an excuse to be messy…
“why is your floor covered in trash”
“oh that’s my ‘trashed items’ area. I did throw them away but somehow they ended up there. it’s in case I didn’t mean to trash something and might want to recover it at a later date”
Peeve: when someone gets peeved at other people for not being as educated as them.
Peeve: that everyone in this thread is completely oblivious of alt.peeves.
In fact, it’s long mystified me how the t-millions apparently are, as a group, generally ignorant of the contribtion of usenet to the war against ignorance, and that people there have long ago ‘been there and done that’ in some newsgroup or another.
Oh, and Lobsang, I had an entire apartment like that once. :smack:
As I listen to the soundtrack CD of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ which arrived today I pit the fact that I do not have a multi-thousand pound music system like my dad.
I also pit my brain for not being able to do the necesary, often fairly simple tasks requred to allow me to enjoy the things I am passionate about.
Photography. If I had a car I could drive wherever the hell I liked and spend as long as is necesary taking pictures.
Football. (soccer I hate having to do that. It’s ‘football’ where the primary interacter with the ball is the foot). I don’t mind watching but I LOVE playing. The thing I miss most about England is going down the the sports centre a couple of times every week to play footy. If my brain would pick me up and do the necesary I would most likely be in a team, doing what I love doing.
not to mention it’s probably one of the best sports/ways in the world to achieve elite fitness. I would certainly lose this fat I have now.
Don’t they play football on Man? Or is it just that not having a car it’s hard to get to the field?
They play football here.
My point was that I can’t motivate myself to seek out and join a team. Or seek out friends with which to have a kick about (or blag our way onto a team like we did in England)
My more general point was that I can’t motivate myself to do what is necesary to enable me to do the things I love doing.
One of my pet peeves is when you’re watching something on television, and the volume of the program or movie your watching is very low, despite the speaker volume being at its normal level. So you turn it up to a level that you can actually hear.
THEN THE COMMERCIALS ARE ABOUT 5 TIMES LOUDER!
You can experience this for yourself right now if you tune into ESPN (they’re showing The Natural for some reason, instead of showing it on ESPN Classic).
cardsfan1975
Morons who disable the right click on their web sites!
Look moron, if I wanted to steal your content, disabling the right click wouldn’t prevent me. What it does is annoy me and prevent me from coming back.
Random and Trivial pet peeve brought to you by Khadaji
[hijack]Once, when my firstborn was about 18 months old, I started chatting with a woman in a bookstore. She had a boy that was also 18 months old. We compared their birthdays–they were the same day. Born in the same out-of-town hospital. Delivered by the same doctor. About a half hour apart.
Turned out that she was the one my doctor kept having to check on while I was in labor. Sometimes it really IS a small world![/hijack]
Do not leave your nasty cup on the ledge on the front of my desk.
I swear I’m trying to work up the nerve to throw the darned things away, instead of asking so and so if they left their nasty cup on my desk.
I doubt that the teeming millions are ignorant of Usenet, just uncaring. I was a Usenet denizen for years, but the trolls and spam and psychos gradually made my reading more a chore than a pleasure. There’s still some newsgroups I check from time to time, but by and large I’ve grown to prefer a moderated message board or mailing list to the free-for-all that is Usenet.
No matter how many filters I set up blocking cross-posted messages, blocking this and that poster, etc., etc., new ones always crop up. Spammers find new ways to post. It’s just more annoying over all than a moderated discussion forum.
Now I know there are people who prefer Usenet, and good on 'em I say, but it has just lost its charm for me.