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Post by Little Jack Horner on Oct 28, 2017 16:07:27 GMT
Until today, I think I had never heard the term “de-arrested” (and apparently neither has my spellchecker). It appeared in a BBC news item — >Police said a 16-year-old girl and two men ... were arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle and driving offences. The girl was later de-arrested and is assisting officers voluntarily.< I thought, at first, that this was sloppy writing but my curiosity was aroused and it seems there is a legal distinction between “de-arrested” and “released without charge”. Since other readers of this forum might be interested, here is an explanation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29784497My apologies to the BBC for doubting their authorship.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 28, 2017 21:08:53 GMT
I recognise faces but often can't put names to them, especially when they're not in their normal settings. If I meet someone I haven't seen for a few years in a location I've not met him or her before, I'll struggle for several minutes to make small talk, in the increasingly desperate hope that I might pick up a clue as to his or her identity. Used to happen to me quite frequently, when I was about in the world more, that people I knew only in an occupational / professional context posed a recognition challenge when encountered, wearing civvies (instead of e.g. police uniform), in aisle 11 of the late-night supermarket. I'd know I knew them, but without their usual context the faces were puzzling. Aisle 11 is not where one needs to be so challenged at 23:50 hours. Name tags – those are what we need. Like in "homes" for dementia patients. Tattooed into our foreheads (as in "that number" featured in psilocybin-inspired biblical predictions of Beastly marks).
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 28, 2017 21:19:00 GMT
Until today, I think I had never heard the term “de-arrested” […] QI, LJH. Thanks.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 29, 2017 23:05:35 GMT
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Post by Geoff on Oct 30, 2017 0:39:55 GMT
I have the same problem, Twoddle. I think it's just old age. I have on more than one occasion been forced to admit I can't remember the person's name ... embarrassment plus!
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Post by Geoff on Oct 30, 2017 1:11:25 GMT
Synesthesia? I think that covers any combination of cross-sensing, such as hearing colours or seeing sounds. Thank you Dave. That seems the likely answer to what I heard. This article supports the idea.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 30, 2017 6:34:21 GMT
On a website relating to the learning of (better) English, ABC Education Learn English spoke to Christopher Lynch from Trinity College, Melbourne about grammar tips for English language learners.As a keen practitioner of appropriate comma pairing, I’d be inserting one immediately following Melbourne – or alternatively deleting that after College. Two or none, I say. That ABC article came on a day of newspaper subbing in which I'd already re-ordered a platoon of commas, and so it triggered some notes for my next update of the house style guide. I'm sure many of you will offer other examples of egregious commaplications; feel free.It bothers me daily in my work, or even just in my extracurricular reading, but commas populate modern writing in a abandonment of consistency or style, many of them moot. Here follow three types of discombobu-commaplication: 1. Overcommaplication: Too many – paired or singly – that detract from the flow. "Mrs Jones bit the dog, while it slept, in its manger, last Sunday." 2. Random commaplication: Too many or too few, but invariably scattered willy-nilly through the text with little obvious benefit; sometimes – though far from always – placed where a speaker might draw breath. "Mrs Jones bit the dog while it slept, in its manger last Sunday." 3. Miscommaplication: The disjoining practice or placing a single comma between a verb and its actor, e.g. "Mrs Jones, bit the dog while it slept in its manger last Sunday". 4. ? ? ?
PS: A Mrs Jones did actually bite a dog in these parts (and on its nether parts) last year!
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 31, 2017 20:27:52 GMT
Oh, for a hyphen! But: hyphen between first and hand or hand and job? That is the question!
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Nov 2, 2017 9:49:11 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 14, 2017 3:38:28 GMT
That's probably fake news.
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Post by Twoddle on Nov 14, 2017 12:00:36 GMT
If a false story were circulated, claiming that all of Picasso's works were actually copies executed by his brother, would that be fake fake news?
And if a scandal arose concerning the entrance portal to the front drive of Microsoft's founder, would that be Gates's Gate Gate?
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