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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread #33160 06/22/2001 2:17 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Would you like to win a $1000? #33161 06/22/2001 2:34 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky More evidence, my sweet Max, of the ignorance/apathy that led to Hyla's accounts receivables. (But I'd wait to correct them till I had the $1000 in my hand!) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Would you like to win a $1000? #33162 06/22/2001 3:52 AM Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 41 Alice Springs, Northern Territ... Rusty newbie Rusty newbie Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 41 Alice Springs, Northern Territ... Somewhat unaccountably, 'the $1000' doesn't seem nearly as irreconcilably awful as 'a $1000'. I'd never accept a $1000, but I'd take the $1,000. If it's not too much to ask. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Would you like to win a $1000? #33163 06/22/2001 10:40 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Ughhh! what a nasty way of putting it - I'd also like to wait until the exchange rate is even more favourable, as well Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter What could you do with a $1001 #33164 06/22/2001 1:02 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Fiberbabe old hand Fiberbabe old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Well, here's what kills me. (My dander has been up since yesterday with the accounts receivables thing - and I'm still going!) On my occasional viewings of Jeopardy, the announcer seems to be hell-bent on reading $31,001 as "thirty-one thousand and one dollar". As if "a $1000" wasn't fetid enough, this guy ignores the original $31,000 and decides it's all singular by the time he completes the phrase. I realize it's only vaguely pertinent, but I saw an opening to get this out of my system. Thanks. I feel much better. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Would you like to win a $1000? #33165 06/23/2001 5:02 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I would read "How would you like to win $1000?" "How would you like to win one thousand dollars?" And I would read "How would you like to win a $1000?" "How would you like to win a one thousand dollars?" In my book, then, the referenced subject line offends not through redundancy, but simply by being ungrammatical. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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