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09-18-2009, 08:28 AM
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The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
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09-18-2009, 08:37 AM
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Well you can only have one good "one", the rest are going to suck.
Rationing, dontcha know?
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09-18-2009, 08:45 AM
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ur. Is it really that hard to spell "your"?
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09-18-2009, 08:51 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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How about logically impossible uses of literally when the writer really meant figuratively, as in "I was literally buried in email."
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09-18-2009, 08:57 AM
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gone traveling
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i believes thus May has bean poosted ina difference thred befour; if sew a node two tha OP...
Gentle writer, please: rules to live by.
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's
highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
17. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
19. The passive voice is to be ignored.
20. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words
however should be enclosed in commas.
21. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
22. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
23. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-
shaking ideas.
24. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate
quotations. Tell me what you know."
25. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist
hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
26. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
27. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
28. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
29. Who needs rhetorical questions?
30. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
31. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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09-18-2009, 09:14 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by independentlypoor
ready?
sorry, couldn't resist.
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uncle!
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09-18-2009, 09:17 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Westernskies
Gentle writer, please: rules to live by.
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Oh Lordy. (I almost said mea culpa). I'm guilty of 5, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 27, and 31... and those are just the ones I recognize.
Love your new avatar.
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09-18-2009, 09:25 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeD
World's most overused word: amazing. Everything is amazing.
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I try to edit some of them to "Awesome!!!!"
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09-18-2009, 09:38 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wrigley
I couldn't agree more. Where I grew up on the South-Side of Chicago we'd say: "USE GUYS"
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What if you were talking about the other guys Is it 'YOUS GUYS'?
And from Texas... not only y'all... but all y'all.... (you don't want to exclude anybody in the y'all..
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09-18-2009, 12:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gindie
I have two pet peeves:
1) Sitting in a restaurant with my family and always being addressed by the server as "you guys". It's not a gender thing with me, it just doesn't sound good to me.
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I agree that it is absurd. How would we men feel if mixed groups were addressed as "you girls"?
Still, when in Rome...and where I live it is totally gauche to notice that people come in sexes. So, I hope you ladies and gentlemen will excuse me if I pass you sometime and say, "How you guys doing"?
Ha
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09-18-2009, 01:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Moemg
The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
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I interpret that to mean "Have stupendous sex at your first opportunity!"
And henceforth you will also have this uniquely pleasing thought several time daily.
ha
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09-18-2009, 01:02 PM
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Sorry guys. I tend to think of "you guys" or "guys" as gender neutral but "the guys" as male.
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09-18-2009, 01:20 PM
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The "you guys thing" -- I must admit I find it mildly irritating when a 20-something server uses it to address a table of adults old enough to be their grandparents. It's not so much a gender thing as it is being inappropriately familiar.
Kind of like when a receptionist at the dentist yells out, "Richard, you're next. How are you today, sweetheart" and she's 28.
Now, where's that recent Curmudgeon poll...
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09-18-2009, 01:22 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
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How about y'all stick around till I figure this out?
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09-18-2009, 01:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haha
I interpret that to mean "Have stupendous sex at your first opportunity!"
And henceforth you will also have this uniquely pleasing thought several time daily.
ha
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Great interpretation ! I usually answer you do also but now I'll make sure the person is under 90 before I say that .
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09-18-2009, 02:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Moemg
The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
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Afterthought...is "Have a great one" ever preceded by "I" or "You" ?
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09-18-2009, 02:08 PM
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I try to make it a more friendly, "I'm a doin' fine, guys, thanks, how 'ya doin'?" Uh oh, now I realize I'm gettin' that from Ben Bailey's exaggerated Noo Yorker on "Cash Cab."
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09-18-2009, 02:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Moemg
The thing that drives me nuts is all the people who say "Have a great one " . What does that mean ?
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You could just say, "Thanks, but I already have a great one."
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09-18-2009, 02:24 PM
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Hokay. Let's try some basic pronouns.
Dis / dat / dese / dose
"Hello, dis is Vinnie's Pizza."
"Dat guy is gonna get whacked."
"Dese guys will whack anyone for fifty bucks."
"Dose guys stiffed Vinnie. Whack em!"
"The Sopranos": Your reference for American language and culture...
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09-18-2009, 02:46 PM
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This is a conversation between a young German Oceanographer and I early 1970s. His real first name, not using his last, though if he happens to read this, will recognize the exchange.
Dr Hans: Say, why is it when Americans meet me they say; Hi, How are you? Yet when I proceed to tell them they don't want to hear it, just move along.
Me: That is an Americanism. They really don't care how you are, it is a form of greeting. It took me a while to figure this out.
Dr Hans: well that is very rude, if they don't want to know, they should not ask.
Me: I don't think we will be able to change that, sorry.
Dr Hans: Are there more of these kind of things?
Me: Yes, but I'm still learning them.
I think I'm now up to speed on most forms of greetings. though some still get me thinking.
Like: Yo, whassup?
I tend to answer that with: You is.
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