Have I mentioned “utilize” when “use” is appropriate in this thread?
Consider it a convenient filter to indicate a high chance that the person doing it will tell you to get off your lawn.
The M1 Garand, among others, begs to differ.
This comes up often in your experience?
It makes me think of Idiocracy, where the idiots use the word to sound smart when talking about sex.
I love ‘Breaking Bad’. I love ‘Better Call Saul’. But in the latter, the continuity errors are driving me batshit (this from a guy who has a loose definition of continuity and a loose definition of batshit).
Mike’s grand-daughter is the same age in this series as she is in ‘Breaking Bad’
Mike and Jimmy obviously have a long and deep-seated antagonism vis-a-vis the parking situation for a very long time in Albuquerque, until tne day Mike needs some help with some cops who investigating him because he just arrived in Albuquerque… yesterday?
Granted these aren’t tiny errors but I need some validation on this.
That’s standard and proper manuscript format. MS format also has you use underlining to indicate italics, two hyphens to indicate a one-em dash, etc.
These are all less necessary today, as typesetting is done by computer, not by guys with inky fingers on composing sticks, but the proper format is still the same. Two spaces after periods and colons: it’s not just a good idea, it’s comme il faut.
(Now, I knew a guy who tried to demand that the newsletter editor retain the two spaces in the published newsletter, but that’s wrong. That leads to the “rivers of white” visual effect. The editor was correct to take out the double spaces. But the author was correct to put them in his submitted manuscript.)
And this is why it’s nearly always wrong now: We use proportional typefaces (in specific fonts) for practically everything now, and the double-space rule only obtained on fixed-with typefaces. It’s a hold-over from typewriter technology, a greatly simplified version of real movable-type printing, which was then carried over into early computer displays, first for actual ink-and-paper printing terminals and line printers and similar, then for character cell terminals, even the ones which had features well beyond what could be accomplished by teletypes.
Of course, if you try to explain this to people who have spent most of their lives living in a peever’s paradise, they won’t believe you.
THANK YOU!
That drives me insane also. It’s either unique, or it isn’t. Nothing can be more unique than anything else. If there is only one of something, then it is unique. If there is more than one, it isn’t.
Something that personally drives me nuts is how time travel is commonly treated in movies and television. Take “Looper”, for example. I recall people talking about how SMART its take on time travel was, when I’m there silently screaming at the screen in the movie theater, as someone cuts a person’s arm in the past, and suddenly the future version of that person starts bleeding. THAT COMPLETELY VIOLATES one of the most basic rules of reality and logic and causality. If you are cut in the past, it means you’ve ALWAYS had those cuts from the time they occurred. They can’t suddenly appear in the future as if by magic. That’s not time travel, that’s voodoo. I can somewhat forgive when it happens in stupid comic book shows like “The Flash”, because I figure that’s geared for people who aren’t going to think about things too deeply. But don’t claim that your movie is smart when it does dumb things like that that violate basic common sense.
I believe it is physiologically impossible for a Japanese person to pronounce my name, “Darryl”. Dar-ru is about the best you can expect.
Some tv movie where a kid in the 1960s or 1970s broke his (her?) arm, and had a blue fabric sling vs. the off-white plaster of paris “cast” which would have been used.
And, yeah, I get the concept of stock footage, but when an episode of Homicide used a few seconds of 1970s NYC subway train (with scads of graffiti) footage for a cutaway that was ostensibly the modern-day Baltimore/DC subway …
Is there a name that can be spelled more ways?
On that note, I’ll mention the pronunciation of the common tan ice cream topping as kar’-mel. The word has three syllables: kare’-a-mel!
Carmel is a mountain in Israel. :dubious:
Not to mention Weiser (Weezer not Wizer) and Helena, MT (Emphasis on the Hell, when the ladies name has the accent on the middle syllable).
On the other hand, Ucon gets pronounced as Yukon. :rolleyes:
Managers who don’t use their closer in a tie game in the ninth inning. Or who let struggling pitchers continue in search of a save or win.
What? Baseball is on TV. It’s entertainment.
Women named Aubrey. It means Golden KING. Girl form is Audrey.
Also all the female Mackensies, McKennas, etc. The mac prefix means “son of.” :smack:
I basically agree, but that battle is already lost.
Also, people who pronounce the y in “syrup” extra, EXTRA long.
I mean, she’s mostly known for being married to him for a short time, but Evelyn Waugh’s influence on Evelyn Waugh’s writing may have been significant. :dubious:
Yeah… I’ve never heard anyone pronounce that name as “Gzavier.” That’s a strange typo to make twice.
You learn to hear the sounds in your native language, and warp other similar sounds in other languages to fit your preconceptions. Hence any number of “shibboleths” and mispronunciations.
Even today, proper manuscript format uses a non-proportional font.
The final published version may use a proportional font, but the manuscript you submit to the publisher is still preferred in traditional manuscript format, and the reason is still the same: maximum visibility.
There is no Baltimore/DC subway. Each city has its own separate subway.
There was a movie set in DC (I can’t remember which one) that shot its subway scenes in the Baltimore subway. Not an error, just a production logistics decision.
Shave it?
It’s a practical way to show how badass the person is, that they wear a beret in public. 
Okay, here is my peeve. I’m saying “should 've”, i.e., I’m using the contraction form of “have” - 've. I can’t help it that you hear “of”.
Because the constellations visible in the sky will differ by latitude, longitude, and season. Unless the point of the scene is to examine the night sky, if it is just a background for a night shot or something it isn’t worth the effort.
Not even near the full moon. Any moon on a clear night. It just isn’t common to see when you live around city lights.
Was that supposed to be a different scene, 'cause I’m not seeing a reference to that line.
Big and fast only make sense in reference to something else, even if it is just common experience. The doctor got to me within 15 minutes of my arrival. “That was fast.” The traffic light didn’t turn green for 15 minutes. Certainly not fast. It took me 15 minutes to drive to work from home. “That was fast.” It took me 15 minutes to walk from my car to my desk. Not fast. What is a fast car?
What about not in this thread?
How else would it be pronounced?
I think he means “Exavier” versus “Zavier”. But don’t pronounce it “Hahvier”. And don’t pronounce Javier as “jay vee air”.