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2 Oct 2012 - 10:45 PM

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Tooth (Critique Team)

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3 Oct 2012 - 12:06 AM

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People giving fulsome apologies (again heard on the BBC) . Fulsome means fawning, grovelling, insincere..waether people saying the temp. will be "between ten to thirteen degrees.."

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3 Oct 2012 - 12:14 AM

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I find it annoying when people prefix something with "literally" when they aren't being literal eg saying "My lips are literally frozen solid"

shadow18

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3 Oct 2012 - 6:10 AM

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And I guess Shakespeare, Dr Johnson, Bronte and Byron would say the same thing.
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Yeah! My teacher always said "Does usage follow grammar, or does grammar follow usage?" then he said the answer really is both.
If you think about it, why do we think that current proper English is better than maybe old English or middle English? What about when the French added a bunch of words, did that make English better?

Things are so much broader than our own time frame! A daunting thought!!

Still though, I am always compelled to correct my television, signs in stores or anywhere, and my family! Lol

thewilliam

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3 Oct 2012 - 9:14 AM

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When I was at primary school in the 1950s, my father bought us an American textbook of English grammar. It had wonderful cartoons to illustrate many of the points and apart from the "strange" spelling of a few words, it was better than any text published in the UK.

paulcookphotography

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4 Oct 2012 - 10:27 AM

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My pet hate is the good old "glass half empty/half full" debate.

It's so absurdly stupid it has gone on for so long. It's only simple maths after all.

Full = 100%
Empty = 0%
Half = 50%

So therefore -

"half full" is 50% of 100% = 50%
"half empty" is 50% of 0% = 0%

So nothing can actually be classed as half empty if it does actually contain any of its original volume.

Phew! Ok, rant over

Paul_Anthony

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4 Oct 2012 - 10:52 AM

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Quote: "half full" is 50% of 100% = 50%
"half empty" is 50% of 0% = 0%

So it's better to have a glass half full as you have 50% rather than 0% if your glass is half empty?

Sooty_1 (Critique Team)

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4 Oct 2012 - 11:08 AM

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I'm with Lobsterboy...

A pessimist thinks the glass is half empty
An optimist thinks it's half full
An engineer thinks the glass is twice the size it needs to be

Nick