24 Mar
2009
24 Mar
'09
3:16 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 24 Mar 2009 at 20:15, Tony Duell wrote:
How about those people who confuse "broiled" with "boiled"?
A brother of mine has (had) a habit of saying "cadmium" to sound like
"kitty yum". He appears to have cleaned his speech up because he got
tired of being offered cat snacks when he though he was asking me for
rechargable batteries.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
So? The data rate makes no difference to the
concepts. 1 Mbps is not
the same thing as 1Mbaud.
No, but unlike Fred, I've given up. After listening to BBC
announcers confuse "lie" and "lay", "flout" and
"flaunt", "flounder"
and "founder" and "who" and "whom", I've concluded that
it's not
worth the effort of being annoyed. Gone are the days of received
standard pronunciation and impeccable grammar.
The tragedy is that by conflating two words to mean the same thing,
we've lost the vocabulary to express a specific concept.
--Chuck,
who prefers his flounder broiled