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Post by Verbivore on Apr 6, 2020 2:55:07 GMT
I’ve seen sewist, which helps out there. I hadn't met sewist, Dave. It's somewhat an improvement on sewer. |
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 6, 2020 23:31:01 GMT
I’ve seen sewist, which helps out there. I've re-posted that to another forum I inhabit (not language oriented but it does run a language thread). Some PC neologisms / adaptations over the years have been poorly considered before promulgation, methinks. And then there have been the extremists, such as some local heavy feminists I knew, who insisted on eliminating ~man from every word it was found in. That led to nonsenses such as personfactured, personual ... . I used to take the urine out of them by modifying the name of their village (it was a feminazi enclave where men were unwelcome – pity they bore so many boy children!). The village was, after its Indigenous original, Goolmangar (pron. GOOL-mən-gah); but I used to pull those women's chains by calling it Gool-PERSON-gah. They just never got the joke (probably because it came from a male.) And from this morning's post on that other forum: More irrits with misusage ... fulsome (over-grown) – misused as a synonym for very full (e.g. fulsome praise, which is not a compliment) enormity (divergence from a normal standard or type; abnormality, irregularity; something that is abnormal; extravagance, eccentricity) – misused to mean extreme size. The enormity of his crime = Yes. The enormity of the mountain = No. forego / forgo These frequently confused homophones are misapplied in print of all kinds ( print here including onscreen text): forego – go before or in advance of; precede: either in position or time; forgo – go from, forsake, leave; abstain or refrain from. |
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Post by Dave Miller on Apr 7, 2020 0:39:20 GMT
> And then there have been the extremists, such as some local heavy feminists I knew, who insisted on eliminating ~man from every word it was found in. That led to nonsenses such as personfactured, personual ... . I used to take the urine out of them by modifying the name of their village (it was a feminazi enclave where men were unwelcome – pity they bore so many boy children!). The village was, after its Indigenous original, Goolmangar (pron. GOOL-mən-gah); but I used to pull those women's chains by calling it Gool-PERSON-gah. They just never got the joke (probably because it came from a male.) <
Person? Surely, that should be perchild!
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 7, 2020 0:44:17 GMT
> And then there have been the extremists, such as some local heavy feminists I knew, who insisted on eliminating ~man from every word it was found in. That led to nonsenses such as personfactured, personual ... . I used to take the urine out of them by modifying the name of their village (it was a feminazi enclave where men were unwelcome – pity they bore so many boy children!). The village was, after its Indigenous original, Goolmangar (pron. GOOL-mən-gah); but I used to pull those women's chains by calling it Gool-PERSON-gah. They just never got the joke (probably because it came from a male.) < Person? Surely, that should be perchild!LOL |
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 7, 2020 4:08:05 GMT
Flap- t, a.k.a. t-voicing, that (to me) annoying pronunciation of T as D – think ladder (for latter) – finally proves its worth, at least to a BBC caption writer. (And one udder thing – does anyone else see a strange disproportionality between the equipment and the milk-pourer? It looks like an adult cut off at the knees!) |
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Post by Twoddle on Apr 7, 2020 10:33:23 GMT
Flap- t, a.k.a. t-voicing, that (to me) annoying pronunciation of T as D – think ladder (for latter) – finally proves its worth, at least to a BBC caption writer. (And one udder thing – does anyone else see a strange disproportionality between the equipment and the milk-pourer? It looks like an adult cut off at the knees!) In the UK - mainly the London area - that's not a problem so much as the glottal, which is now heard even among TV programme announcers and otherwise well-spoken political pundits and which jars my nerves every time I hear it. It's usually coupled with the absence of the letter "g" from words ending "ng". I don't know whether it's possible to indicate a glottal in print, but "People are ge'in' fa'er" perhaps gives an idea. |
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 8, 2020 0:29:08 GMT
Yesterday I emailed the Australian Government Style Manual updating and digitisation team about a statement in their recent newsletter.
They had written: “Currently we use minimal capitalisation, use a capital letter:
• to mark the first word of a sentence
• for proper nouns
• for names”.
I wrote to them: “The statement below is an example of how not to write: it is a run-on sentence. Capitalisation should be followed by a semicolon (my preference) or a period – certainly not a comma.”
The team leader’s response:
“I think it is fair to say that I have just learned about comma splicing. Thank you.”
Having done all that I can for the coronavirus situation, I'm still finding other ways – admittedly really trivial! – to improve the world. LOL
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Post by Twoddle on Apr 8, 2020 9:35:19 GMT
Yesterday I emailed the Australian Government Style Manual updating and digitisation team about a statement in their recent newsletter. They had written: “ Currently we use minimal capitalisation, use a capital letter: • to mark the first word of a sentence • for proper nouns • for names”. I wrote to them: “The statement below is an example of how not to write: it is a run-on sentence. Capitalisation should be followed by a semicolon (my preference) or a period – certainly not a comma.” The team leader’s response: “I think it is fair to say that I have just learned about comma splicing. Thank you.”Having done all that I can for the coronavirus situation, I'm still finding other ways – admittedly really trivial! – to improve the world. LOL Well done, Verbivore! |
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 8, 2020 11:01:11 GMT
The thing is, Twod, that few if any of the government writers (be they public employees or private subcontractors) seem ever to have heard of, let alone observe the advice in, the Style Manual. One reason given for digitising the tome is that writers might more readily access its advice. Perhaps they were too busy (or too lazy) to reference a hard-copy book; if so, will they any more readily open a web browser to check?
Nonetheless I support the digitisation team's work.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 8, 2020 21:55:48 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 8, 2020 22:22:49 GMT
This gave me a major groan: "We've received your message, and a member of our Customer Happiness team will reply as soon as possible to assist you". I'd have been quite content with team, ungarnished. Further, I'm not a customer: I'm a frustrated (potential) donor! I'd better have breakfast before I get any grumpier!
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 9, 2020 21:51:18 GMT
Now apparently one can be inside an epicentre. From the New York Times: ‘A Tragedy Is Unfolding’: Inside New York’s Virus Epicenter.From the same article we get exploding viruses: “In the month since the virus exploded in New York …”. And from the article I learned that one of the NY neighbourhoods classed as a NY “epicentre” is, most unfortunately, called Corona. Most residents in the overcrowded ghetto are poor migrants and, as the US has no single-payer universal health system (unlike the UK or AU), those residents are far more likely to die of COVID-19 than are, say, the residents of Trump Tower. Further, a city councilman is quoted as saying: “We’re the epicenter of the epicenter”. I'd now better heat up my hot cross buns and fill the epicentre of my breakfast hunger. |
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 9, 2020 23:38:22 GMT
Wrong passed (past?)  Although in the item's body the expression is "grandmothers are past their …", passed doesn't work in that headline. |
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 10, 2020 1:18:10 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on Apr 10, 2020 11:04:23 GMT
I trust you all understood that; I shall be setting a short exam . |
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