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Post by Verbivore on Mar 19, 2020 8:00:04 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 19, 2020 10:35:34 GMT
As I mentioned to some acquaintances yesterday (by text, of course; not in person), we're currently required to stay indoors, not mix with others (especially in any numbers), avoid restaurants, theatres, cinemas and parties, and not to kiss, shake hands, hug, engage in other physical contact, or get within two metres of other humans. At last! MY TIME HAS COME!
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 19, 2020 10:38:16 GMT
[...] At last! MY TIME HAS COME!
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 20, 2020 9:29:03 GMT
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Mar 21, 2020 4:37:25 GMT
Back to the “like” post. Interesting. Thank you, Vv.
I am irritated by the use of “went” instead of “said” as in this—
I told him that he was irritating me and he went, “I really could care less”.
Which illustrates another source of irritation.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 21, 2020 6:05:39 GMT
I am irritated by the use of “went” instead of “said” as in this— I told him that he was irritating me and he went, “I really could care less”. Which illustrates another source of irritation. Ditto to both those irritations, LJH. – Like she went like I really could care less.
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Post by Dave Miller on Mar 21, 2020 10:32:19 GMT
Ditto to both those irritations, LJH. – Like she went like I really could care less. Or even: Like she went like I really literally could care less.
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 21, 2020 18:59:32 GMT
I've been in touch with Paul D by e-mail. He was carted off to an intensive-care unit at midnight recently with a life-threatening perforated-bowel; he then had complications and an infection and is now weak but recovering at home.
I hope he makes a full recovery before Covid-19 arrives at his door.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 21, 2020 20:29:39 GMT
I've been in touch with Paul D by e-mail. He was carted off to an intensive-care unit at midnight recently with a life-threatening perforated-bowel; he then had complications and an infection and is now weak but recovering at home. I hope he makes a full recovery before Covid-19 arrives at his door. J***s! I'll not intrude on his recovery time for now, Twod, but next time you're in contact with Paul please pass on my very best wishes for a full recovery.
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 22, 2020 10:32:29 GMT
... next time you're in contact with Paul please pass on my very best wishes for a full recovery. Of course. Will do, Verbivore.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 23, 2020 9:10:34 GMT
Some time ago we discussed the oh-zero phenomenon (the use of "oh" for "zero") in speech.
I've just watched the documentary Killing Patient Zero about the early days of HIV/AIDS, in which I learned that Gaetan Degas – the chap ultimately known as Patient Zero and outed in Randy Shilts's book And the Band Played On – was previously labelled by the CDC as Patient O (letter oh), the O standing for "outside California" (where all the other CDC 56 cases were from at the time).
When some fellow researchers referred to Patient Zero their colleague didn't understand who or what they meant.
"But you named him that. Gaetan Degas."
"Oh, that was Patient Zero."
"That was a zero?!"
And that's how we ended up with Patient Zero.
Oh for a zero!
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 24, 2020 7:01:33 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 25, 2020 0:57:17 GMT
Not exactly a catastrophe in the current health situation, but I was irritated this morning while shopping: the small shops with limited space for social distancing had at their entrances signs declaring "We are limiting the amount of people in our store at one time …".
If only I'd had my felt marker with me at the time!
A couple of days previous I had attacked another irritating sign: "Community markets 100 meters this way ->". I added an insertion caret (^) and wrote: "What kind of meters – electricity, water, gas …?" Someone must have got the message, because the sign has since been cleaned of my note and the meters emended to metres.
Gotta win one now and then. ;-)
I hope everyone is managing despite the hysteria and gloom. I'm coping courtesy of my two mottoes:
* Rule #1 – Don't panic! (One might say that one is part of my, er, DNA.)
* Rule #2 – Be alert but not alarmed (the world needs more lerts).
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 25, 2020 19:45:30 GMT
Orthographic disease reaches Britain.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 25, 2020 21:18:37 GMT
An unfortunate choice of verb (final paragraph). Perhaps root is not known in S Korea as slang for sexual intercourse. "[…] the police will entirely transform the social apathy to digital sex crime and strongly root out such crime from our society,"
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