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#195218 - 12/21/10 10:08 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: Aramis]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3271 Loc: R'lyeh	Just have the intellectual starch to know what you are saying; that is all we at the IPS are asking. Not only do I know what I'm saying when I say "PIN" or "ATM", but I also know what folks mean when they say "PIN number" or "ATM machine". You know you could just start shooting people who don't speak as you would have them. After a while that would solve the problem. Of course, the overly corrected could start shooting back. Then your grammato-jihad would be in full swing. A what a semantic paradise. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#195222 - 12/22/10 07:14 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: zmjezhd]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667	Can I shoot the people who say "titmouse"?
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#195223 - 12/22/10 08:15 AM Re: heu, ad lunam [Re: Faldage]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3271 Loc: R'lyeh	Can I shoot the people who say "titmouse"? Now you're getting into the spirit of the angry vulgus nobile of POed normative grammarians. Shooting's too good for the folks who use annoying constructions. First they shot the people who said "ATM machine", and I did nothing. Next they came for the people who said "air" for err, and I did nothing. Finally they came for me, because I pronounced distributed with the accent on the second syllable instead of the first (à la RP in excelsis), and nobody was left to speak the language, and the peevers would not speak to one another because they did not approve of the contradictory shibboleths and quibbles of their fellow grammaticasters, so they sat around, tongued-tied in damp silence. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#195225 - 12/22/10 08:18 AM Re: heu, ad lunam [Re: zmjezhd]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7186 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: zmjezhd First they shot the people who said "ATM machine", and I did nothing. Next they came for the people who said "air" for err, and I did nothing. Finally they came for me, because I pronounced distributed with the accent on the second syllable instead of the first (à la RP in excelsis), and nobody was left to speak the language, and the peevers would not speak to one another because they did not approve of the contradictory shibboleths and quibbles of their fellow grammaticasters, so they sat around, tongued-tied in damp silence. /bow _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#195253 - 12/23/10 07:57 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: RonDavis]
doc_comfort addict Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 618 Loc: Australia	Does anyone else see it as a malignant spoonerism?
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#195254 - 12/23/10 10:50 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: doc_comfort]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667	Originally Posted By: doc_comfort Does anyone else see it as a malignant spoonerism? What? Neoplasm?
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#195282 - 12/24/10 02:36 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: RonDavis]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667	BTW, all y'all that are fighting against the use of the phrase "ATM machine" would appear to be fighting a will-o-the-wisp.
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#195283 - 12/24/10 02:45 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: Faldage]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	Ah but that only covers books and anyone writing a book and including ATM machine are sure to be corrected by their editors. What Ngram doesn't take into account is day to day speech, which is where ATM machine crops up the most... _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#195289 - 12/24/10 06:29 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: RonDavis]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667	Unless it's fiction and the author is representing the speech of normal type folks.
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#195919 - 01/11/11 09:36 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: RonDavis]
mazda stranger Registered: 01/09/11 Posts: 2 Loc: th	Thanks for the info............. _________________________ People to conquer victory. gclub in Singapore, most people will be born a tiger. Tiger will be suppressed because the lion in gclub.
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