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Post by Twoddle on Apr 1, 2022 8:13:54 GMT
We woke up to a centimetre of snow this morning. Must be someone's idea of an April Fool's joke.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Apr 1, 2022 8:59:48 GMT
It is dry and sunny here at the moment but it is only 0°C. A maximum 8° it’s forecast for today. And we started British summer time last Sunday ‼️
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 1, 2022 9:35:32 GMT
Yes, hello to April (mid-autumn in AU)! I was really over March! In my corner of the world ( of course it's flat! lol) we had our first fully rain-free, fully sunny day since 7 February! One can empathise with Noah, though his mere 40 days / nights don't touch our 52 consecutive wet days, many dumping 'rain bombs' of up to 600 mm over 48 hours (a foot of rain per day). Although that's a tad extreme even for here, the pattern is not atypical. We're promised by the Bureau of Meteorology a few sunny, dry ones before whatever comes next. April has to be an improvement on Feb/March. (Hopes!) Have been feeling a lack of vitamin D, so I've doubled my daily dose. PS: In whitefella records (from the 1890s on) the only month that Lismore and area has never flooded is August. My wish for the month: Access, soon, to my storage shed so that I can get on with moving house. The floods seriously disrupted plans: a whole string of flood-related consequences involving a dozen or more folk in the chain between me and that event. Twelve days hence is the latest earliest prospect. Oh to be in Molong
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 1, 2022 23:15:44 GMT
Nothing at all to do with verbal or written language, but more the visual artistry of nature. The recent la Niña rains might have wrought havoc on Australia's east coast, but it's a different story inland. Here's what the rains do to Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre. |
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 5, 2022 7:09:47 GMT
A solecism I see from time to time is the use of up most for utmost. Am I the only one who sees this? (A common host is eBay.)
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Post by Dave Miller on Apr 5, 2022 21:21:23 GMT
I don’t recall spotting ‘up most’, Vv, but I can quite see how it would happen.
Recently I’ve been searching eBay for furniture (I need a third display case for my expanding typewriter collection and my friend is wanting a small Welsh dresser). It’s not unusual to see the mistake, but I reckon MOST sellers now refer to a draw, rather than a drawer.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 5, 2022 22:04:17 GMT
[…] sellers now refer to a draw, rather than a drawer. I recently edited a 150,000-word manuscript in which every instance of drawer was misspelt draw. I'd say its frequency exceeds that of up most. How many typewriters do you have now, Dave? |
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Post by Dave Miller on Apr 6, 2022 5:04:43 GMT
I’m at twenty-two typewriters now, Vv. The collecting started as a distraction during lockdown and has tailed off somewhat with the ending of that … but a low-priced beauty can still sneak in occasionally!
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 6, 2022 6:11:02 GMT
Acquired my first schreibmaschine at age 15 – a Remington portable. Followed that with a Facit portable, an IBM golf-ball, an IBM golf-ball typesetter, and a Smith-Corona daisy-wheel. Then came PCs and it was all over.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Apr 6, 2022 9:58:51 GMT
I don’t think I have ever seen “up most” but, if I ever heard it, I don’t think I would notice. I suspect that I rarely read “utmost” and I guess that is the same for most people. No doubt most people write what they think they hear.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Apr 7, 2022 11:46:50 GMT
References to typewriters reminds me of the silly habit of my family to refer to them as “tripe eaters“. Was this unique to my family or is it common practice?
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 14, 2022 12:04:58 GMT
New spelling:
"I don't have the wear-with-all to go into much debt". (Quoted on ABC News Online)
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 15, 2022 8:49:03 GMT
Stream of consciousness?The following from a YouTube poster: nary one comma, stop, or other break mark – but there are, godblessim, five correctly deployed apostrophes, including one in an it's. The lack of punctuation or breaks left me breathless before I reached the end, but I almost followed the rant.
Get out there and keep documenting them very interesting I grew up next to two big quarries and one of them we go four wheeling at and I don't want the big hills above the Corey on the sunny day you could see a lot of cars underwater they've already pulled about 50 cars out just cuz though you're starting to stick out of the water but there's literally a couple hundred cars there at the time there was no drones to do any kind of flyover stuff and it's really cool keep it up I love everything about Australia you just got yourself another follower congratulations
Okay, take a breath!
PS: The topic was abandoned / found cars in the Aussie bush / outback.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Apr 15, 2022 10:43:07 GMT
Stream of consciousness?
So far as I can see, this forum does not provide precise details of the time of origin or receipt of a message but it seems to me, Vv, that you posted this comment at about 7:30 in the morning. Maybe it was even earlier? It is no wonder that you were out of breath when you had finished reading the item about cars lost in the outback. I am still snugly in bed at that time of the day!
With regard to the item on wear-with-all and, even with correct spelling, I don’t quite understand how one needs to have wherewithal in order to get into debt. I would’ve thought the absence of wherewithal was essential in order to get into debt? But it is only 11:30 and I’m still asleep!
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 15, 2022 11:13:50 GMT
Stream of consciousness?
So far as I can see, this forum does not provide precise details of the time of origin or receipt of a message but it seems to me, Vv, that you posted this comment at about 7:30 in the morning. Maybe it was even earlier? It is no wonder that you were out of breath when you had finished reading the item about cars lost in the outback. I am still snugly in bed at that time of the day!
With regard to the item on wear-with-all and, even with correct spelling, I don’t quite understand how one needs to have wherewithal in order to get into debt. I would’ve thought the absence of wherewithal was essential in order to get into debt? But it is only 11:30 and I’m still asleep! I posted it at about 19:00, LJH. But 07:30 wouldn't be unusual: I'm always up well before the sun rises, summer and winter. Old habit from childhood on dairy farm. I suppose. |
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