Can't help myself: Rant
Just a couple language errors that seem to perpetuate themselves:
Moron = idiot
Maroon = a color between dark red and purple, or a verb meaning to be stranded.
Idea = any thought
Ideal = only the best ideas, fit to be pursued as ultimate goals [that doesn't even capture my understanding of the word]
I'm sure I'll add others as they occur to me. For now, lets just let ideas be ideas, and lets not call idiots colored or stranded folk.
Moron = idiot
Maroon = a color between dark red and purple, or a verb meaning to be stranded.
Idea = any thought
Ideal = only the best ideas, fit to be pursued as ultimate goals [that doesn't even capture my understanding of the word]
I'm sure I'll add others as they occur to me. For now, lets just let ideas be ideas, and lets not call idiots colored or stranded folk.
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quote:spurgemastur:
Just a couple language errors that seem to perpetuate themselves:
Moron = idiot
Maroon = a color between dark red and purple, or a verb meaning to be stranded.
LOL ... I certainly beg to differ on that one! Whenever I call someone a moron - he/she gets really pissed - fight'en mad!
When I call him a 'moroon' - I get a smile and laughter from bystanders!
... also, baseball is for maroons!
.... learned that a long time ago - has been very helpful.
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I'm sorry, but if calling someone a Maroon is good enough for Bugs Bunny, it's good enough for me. [;)][;)]
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I changed it to Maroon so it wouldnt get poofed...
Thanks for not asking and just blurting out0 -
BUGS uses 'maroon!??'
Kewl!
.... better than I thought!
Thanks!
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[8D]--No Zip, not Bugs Bunny--
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
BUGS uses 'maroon!??'
Kewl!
.... better than I thought!
Thanks!
[:D]
----JACOB !!!
--[:o)][:o)]--JIMBO0 -
OH!
Ya mean Bugs Moraan ... or is it Moroon, the gangsta!?
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Why wait... this maroon had the Ideal a long long time ago in Galaxy Ford far far way!!!
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors0 -
quote:Originally posted by rider
I'm sorry, but if calling someone a Maroon is good enough for Bugs Bunny, it's good enough for me. [;)][;)]
rider
I've wondered if that has been an intentional error on some poster's parts.0 -
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quote:Originally posted by rider
I'm sorry, but if calling someone a Maroon is good enough for Bugs Bunny, it's good enough for me. [;)][;)]
rider
That's where I got it at too!!!0 -
Jest a spelng eror.
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I'm really glad we are getting this cleared up before I actually have some work to do, tonight!
... are we bonding now?
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Another one is irregardless. There is no such word. Its just 'regardless'.
Do you send your 'irregards' to people? No, just your 'regards'.0 -
The point is, do all the parties to the discussion understand what is being said??
If they do, spelling is irrelevant.
It may have been noticed that I quit correcting Members spelling a few weeks ago, when I arrived at the preceding
epiphany. (HA - used it again !!!)
Find something that matters upon which to devote your very significant brain power.
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quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
The point is, do all the parties to the discussion understand what is being said??
If they do, spelling is irrelevant.
It may have been noticed that I quit correcting Members spelling a few weeks ago, when I arrived at the preceding
epiphany. (HA - used it again !!!)
Find something that matters upon which to devote your very significant brain power.
Doug
No.....no. The language is a living thing and sometimes it shifts in a meaningful way, such that existing words acquire new meanings or such that entirely new words enter the lexicon. That's natural. I think it's ugly, but I fully accept that "Google" has become a meaningful verb.
And then sometimes the language is just abused and then it is right to try and correct the problem. Substituting the wrong word is not a spelling error, nor is it introducing a new word, nor is it expanding the definition of an existing word. It's just wrong, and it needs to be corrected. I think that's what I'm trying to do here.
Edit: I often am tempted to correct spelling (it's "etc", not "ect" for example) but I generally do not do so. I'm bitching here about word usage, not spelling.0 -
quote:Originally posted by spurgemastur
quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
The point is, do all the parties to the discussion understand what is being said??
If they do, spelling is irrelevant.
It may have been noticed that I quit correcting Members spelling a few weeks ago, when I arrived at the preceding
epiphany. (HA - used it again !!!)
Find something that matters upon which to devote your very significant brain power.
Doug
No.....no. The language is a living thing and sometimes it shifts in a meaningful way, such that existing words acquire new meanings or such that entirely new words enter the lexicon. That's natural. I think it's ugly, but I fully accept that "Google" has become a meaningful verb.
And then sometimes the language is just abused and then it is right to try and correct the problem. Substituting the wrong word is not a spelling error, nor is it introducing a new word, nor is it expanding the definition of an existing word. It's just wrong, and it needs to be corrected. I think that's what I'm trying to do here.
Edit: I often am tempted to correct spelling (it's "etc", not "ect" for example) but I generally do not do so. I'm bitching here about word usage, not spelling.
Curseing is bad for you0 -
bugs says " what a macaroon" 0 -
OK.
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quote:Originally posted by tobefree
Why wait... this maroon had the Ideal a long long time ago in Galaxy Ford far far way!!!
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
Excellent site! Unfortunately, only those of us who care will look at it.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Jacob2008
Curseing is bad for you
Bite me.0
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