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Post by Trevor on Apr 2, 2020 13:27:46 GMT
I just can't tell.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 2, 2020 13:31:19 GMT
Thanks, Trevor, for raising the April flag. I didn't want to hog the thread starting (it happens too frequently as it is, perhaps because of my living half a day ahead of the UK and I post issues as they arise).
I hope that you – and everyone else – are well and coping with the lockdown. Crazy times we live in.
I also hope that Paul D is recovering well from his health ordeal.
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Post by Twoddle on Apr 2, 2020 17:32:11 GMT
I also hope that Paul D is recovering well from his health ordeal. Paul's doing well although still quite weak. He's surrounded by his family, bar one son who's locked down in London. I e-mail him once or twice a week to see how he is, and if anyone wanted to do so same he'd be delighted.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 3, 2020 1:16:45 GMT
I’m sure I’ve previously posted about this poor usage (in for into and on for onto, etc. – e.g "jumped in the car"), but here’s a new example of what such practice can lead to:
That sloppy, lazy on – for onto – falls foul in this statement from ABC News Online:
“NSW Police declined to come on the show”. (Secret policemen's … something?)
One might hope that always applies, not just during the pandemic. OTOH, I’m sure they’re always welcome to come onTO the show or to appear on the show.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Apr 3, 2020 4:51:31 GMT
Trevor wasn’t sure whether it is April yet. I am also far from clear what day it is as, being locked down and sleeping badly, I can’t tell one day from another. It seems many folk are in the same boat. My daughter sent me an image with these words overprinted—
For those who have lost track, today is Blursday the fortyteenth of Maprilay.
I don’t know where she found it and I have no idea how to copy and paste the image but it struck a chord with me.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 3, 2020 6:29:05 GMT
LJH: I searched for that and found myriad postings – almost all on Fakebook, so I couldn't access them long enough to copy, and one on the Washington Post, which has a paywall. But it certainly seems to have gone viral.
Friday April 3rd here now, 17:29.
I notices that this year April Fool's seemed almost ignored or forgotten – at least in my small world.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 3, 2020 6:40:16 GMT
Here's a dodgy link head on ABC News Online:
"It's good news with the weather right now with hope of more to come".
More good news or more weather? We could use some of both, but if the weather disappears don't we all perish?
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Apr 3, 2020 6:42:12 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 3, 2020 6:54:01 GMT
Sounded April Foolish to me yet half-convincing, but to be certain I had to read the FAQs. The very few AF gags I did see arrived after noon, so in Oz were no longer AFs. Sometimes being ahead of the ROTW isn't advantageous. LOL
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Post by Trevor on Apr 3, 2020 9:53:10 GMT
That's so well put together. Loving the level of detail they've gone into for this. Also the fact that you can actually book it and they'll donate the money to an ecological charity.
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Post by Twoddle on Apr 3, 2020 11:56:43 GMT
I notices that this year April Fool's seemed almost ignored or forgotten – at least in my small world. I saw only one April Fool's (or should it be "Fools'" - there are more than one of them, after all) joke this year. A friend, knowing my intense dislike of the Wimbledon tennis championship, where I lose my spouse to bloody "bonk, bonk, thirty, forty" on television for a fortnight every summer, and knowing my absolute delight to have learnt that it's cancelled this year because some Chinese half-wit undercooked a bat, sent me an official-looking article that said that the competition had been transferred to the indoor facility at Earl's Court where sanitising and disinfection facilities would be in operation. No, I didn't fall for it.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 4, 2020 22:11:43 GMT
A new word (to me): selectorate (para. immediately preceding subhead Coronavirus crisis). It’s in my 2nd edn OED, so it’s been around for a while, though I’d never encountered it before this morning. It does not appear in the more recent American Oxford, the Macquarie International English, or Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries – though selector does. Perhaps selectorate is a term narrowly confined to British politics?
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 5, 2020 22:36:10 GMT
A PIN is no longer just a code for one’s Visa card: in Oz now a PIN is a Penalty Infringement Notice issued for breaches of personal-distancing rules and self-isolation / quarantine. (This came to light with the coronavirus pandemic; I’d never heard the term previously.)
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 6, 2020 1:43:19 GMT
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Post by Dave Miller on Apr 6, 2020 2:49:46 GMT
I’ve seen sewist, which helps out there.
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