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>>link to Bartleby is less than authoritative...A commissioned rank in the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
>It is the American Heritage Dictionary.
that particular nit, at least, is well picked. <g>
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that particular nit, at least, is well picked. <g>
Hate to...er...nitpick, tsuwm, but should "well picked" be hyphenated? Sans hyphen, your comment would appear to be saying that Faldage's choice of that nit to pick upon was a wise one, eg "That particular nit was well chosen", whereas [I believe] your actual© intent was to point out that a similar argument has been made several times previously.
Or am I just a few fries short of a Happy Meal today?
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should "well picked" be hyphenated? Sans hyphen, your comment would
appear to be saying that Faldage's choice of that nit to pick upon was a wise one, eg "That particular nit
was well chosen", whereas [I believe] your actual© intent was to point out that a similar argument has
been made several times previously.
no... and there is a third option: the choice of that particular nit to pick upon (among the many picked upon) was an apt one; i.e., no other value judgment was intended or should be construed thereupon.
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I believe your actual intent was to point out that a similar argument has been made several times previously.Had tsumn so intended, he would surely have indulged in the wordplay of saying such nit was "well picked-over".  But conversely ...
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guilty,guilty,guilty.. of a YART.. but a wll picked-over nit? your average nit is about the size of a comma , and picking it over requires some rather specialized tools! and to be honest, you just want the nits gone.. they grow up to be cooties.. uggh!
oh, you weren't being literal? silly me.. but once your kids come home from school or camp with an infestation of head lice, nit picking, takes on a very specific meaning.
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no other value judgment was intended or should be construed thereupon.
...isn't that what we do best, these days?
Oh~hhhhh, that was your point, wasn't it?
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the choice of that particular nit to pick upon (among the many picked upon) was an apt onebut tsuwm, doesn't the entomology of the word nitpick indicate that all nits are fungible, none being more apt for picking than any other?  the word entomology being deliberately used
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The nit is, as you no doubt know, one of the two units of currency of the Glorious Empire of Ludicrania. The other is the Half Imperial. The two units are not interconvertible.
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