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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Re: Typo blood #165743 02/07/07 01:35 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Jeez!! Would you guys just eschew the obfuscation already?! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165744 02/08/07 07:06 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Quote: yeahbut, one pn's type-3 is another's type-2. Perhaps so. Nonetheless I'm sure you'd find much consistency among those similarly-inclined. Hence it might prove interesting if someone were to conduct a poll testing my assertion dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165745 02/08/07 09:24 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand Quote: yeahbut, one pn's type-3 is another's type-2. And someones type-2 may be anothers type-3. If type 3's are not in someones vernacular does the classification still apply? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165746 02/08/07 10:35 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Sure it does, why not dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165747 02/08/07 11:52 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand Quote: Sure it does, why not Sorry, Maybe I don't understand the meaning of type-2, type-3. Is it to do with frequency? Some of the words used in everyday speech are not in common usage to some people on a regular basis. So to them the words could conceivably be classed as type-3. And vice versa, does a type 2 of yours or someone with a higher vocab become a type 3 for someone else. What is the distinction? In Cook Island Maori there are only words. No hard or easy words, just words. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165748 02/09/07 12:53 AM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Z Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Z Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Perhaps a society rather than a coalition? RSPCW: Radical Society for the Protection and Collection of Words. It's impossible to definitively typecast (most of them can be typed, obviously - that's how they showed up on the screen) words since frequency, familiarity and spellability are dependany on the user, hearer and speller. I might say in ward rounds that "knee flexion is a contra-indication" but to my patient I will say "don't bend your knee." Each is a perfectly usable, understandable phrase in it's own environment. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165749 02/09/07 02:23 AM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui Quote: I might say in ward rounds that "knee flexion is a contra-indication" but to my patient I will say "don't bend your knee." Each is a perfectly usable, understandable phrase in it's own environment. Why "knee flexion is a contra-indication" rather than "is contra-indicated"? I'm asking from a position of the utmost ignorance, motivated by genuine curiosity. noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165750 02/09/07 11:10 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Quote: Quote: I might say in ward rounds that "knee flexion is a contra-indication" Why "knee flexion is a contra-indication" rather than "is contra-indicated"? I'm asking from a position of the utmost ignorance, motivated by genuine curiosity. Good question. I would think that "knee flexion is a contra-indication" would mean that if the patient bends a knee it would mean that there's something else that would be contra-indicated. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Type-2 #165751 02/09/07 04:46 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah OP dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Quote: Sure it does, why not Sorry, Maybe I don't understand the meaning of type-2, type-3. ***2: them most folk understand but don't use much, eg, guffaw 3: Snooty words not used much in everyday conversation, eg, cachinnation Is it to do with frequency? ***Only indirectly ... And vice versa, does a type 2 of yours or someone with a higher vocab become a type 3 for someone else. What is the distinction?... ***There isn't one. You're asking for a prescriptivist answer to a descriptivist question. But thank you for participating and again hearty welcome dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: This week's Daleism #165752 02/09/07 05:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Olly, Dale has his own language, I think it's called Dalespeak. These distinctions are his and his alone. I'm not surprised you don't know them. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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