OT: Another Grammar Rant

We're speaking English here, not Latin, m'dear!!!! Again from Dictionary.com:

eon-noun

1. an indefinitely long period of time; age.
2. the largest division of geologic time, comprising two or more eras.
3. Astronomy. one billion years. Also, aeon.

Origin: see aeon

Don't tempt me! I once saw a sign in one of the grocery aisles for "ethic" food!

LOL! I've seen a woman given a pubic service award in the local newspaper.

And the same teen would tell you, "Like get a life, ok", for complaining!

Fred

GRRRR! I don't accept that reason. If something *has* to be shortened (which 99.9999% of the time doesn't *need* to be) "probly" would be better...at least you're getting the consonants correct. Prolly just makes one sound like an uneddicated idjut!

imo, of course!

Like, what's the big prob Joan??

Fred

I guess if it was suppose to be pronounced "nuclear" it would be splet "newclear". I have heard it pronounced new - clee - er more often than not.

Fred

Maybe that depends on your perspective??? LOL

Joan

Like, if you get scared half to death twice are you dead??

Fred

A bit like the "glass half full" as opposed to the "glass half empty" view of life...

Truly said !

But if you ask an engineer -- s/he'll tell you the glass is too big for the liquid :-) -- (r,d,h).

Joking aside, have you noticed how you can categorize people as full or empty people ?

Here it is "That was so fun!" The "very" must be you more formal Maritimers.

Dawne

My kids decided their late Grannie, my mum, was a "the glass is half empty and its leaving a ring on my nice coffee table" person. They were right.

Dawne

New clear

Great idea. I generally have my baking butter in the freezer. Now I'm having a scone craving, but we're doing WW and I'm not about to take this plunge...

Also, when making a caprese salad, got the hint from Cook's to freeze the diced mozzarella for about 15-30 min before adding to the hot pasta. Works like a charm - the cheese is just cold enough to not get gooey - makes a great salad.

Very spoiled. At least my DM made sure we actually had real home-cooked meals almost all the time. One of my close friends - her mom couldn't cook, so they actually had dinners delivered 5 nights a week from some chef service! I think DH's family had some spoiling - he is constantly asking for certain from scratch soups, a few baked things that his DM made.

That's a great memory. I have a similar one, of my DGM getting s children's cookbook for us, and one summer that we spent time at her house (beach, LI) my DB & I cooked and baked many things from that - we were IIRC about 6&8 I can still see us standing on footstools to be able to mix properly at the counter in that great old kitchen.

Ellice

At least in American English, I believe the main mispronunciation is "Nu-cu-lar." I don't know why - expect people don't pay attention and just have some problem with that arrangement of vowels. One of our best friends, and my grad school officemate, has an MS in Nuclear Engineering (from MIT), and he constantly says "nucular" - which is absurd. We decided it was his Philly accent. Some years post-grad school - his wife (the professor who does Artificial Intell & Decision Theory stuff) got us t-shirts - his has some joke about "nucular engineers" - with the spelling correction on it as well. Then we got "Really am a Rocket Scientist" shirts (as he was working on the Space station, and I'd been doing something for NASA). Me, I had the word "nuclear" in the name of a branch in which I worked, and the silly secretary also couldn't pronounce it, plus insisted on answering the phone with the topical (and frightening) title. Took a lot of convincing to get her to just answer "Code XXXX, this is Jean..."

Ellice

No, discrete events with no memory. It's a Bernoulli thing.

Ellice

Hmmm, I don't know about that. Maybe the specs don't match :^) Or, who couldn't read the fabrication drawing details? Or which draftsperson missed a dimension.

ellice