Oh, Dot Wordsworth, you've seen clearly into my cold, grammar-absolutist soul and made me laugh.
"There is no chance whatsoever of box set being replaced by the more correct form boxed set. So stop seething about it and causing yourself distress."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/mind-your-language-box-set/
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/mind-your-language-box-set/
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LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ... -
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
I blame the Japanese. They drop like half the letters when they borrow a word from English. We say personal computer and abbreviate it PC; they say “pasucon”.
ReplyDeleteMike DeSimone * Pasokon
ReplyDeleteMike DeSimone I found all the letters they discarded...the Germans are using them. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd the Welsh, but just for certain names.
ReplyDeleteMorio Murase The Welsh only got the consonants because the French nicked the vowels first.
ReplyDeleteThe French waste them anyway, the last syllable in many words are mostly silent.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna miss this place.
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