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Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 10:35am
KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: In my defense... I'm not even a speller. I are constukton werkeer. The Engineering club T-shirt at Uni read 'Munce ago I cudent even spel injenier, but now I are wun!' In a slightly more interesting vein the Riding Society's read 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and spurs excite me!' MathSoc had 'Hyperbolics, parabolics and all other types of ....'

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Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 10:31am
Proclivities wrote: Yeah, the "after" makes it sort of unclear; how much "after" - an hour, a day? Our local news always, but always, puts 'as' in the clickbait headline, so 'Ambulance attends as fight breaks out' which similarly implies that arrival of the service/police/whatever made it all kick off!

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Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 7:05am
Red_Dragon wrote: local news byline... "County commissioner Brian Maughan said theyâve dealt with fraud cases in the past, but nothing to this caliber." So what caliber were they? .38? .44?

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Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 5:33am
"OHP: 14-year-old girl trying to catch dog killed after being hit by SUV on Dibble highway"

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Posted: Sep 13, 2022 - 5:06pm
local news byline... "County commissioner Brian Maughan said theyâve dealt with fraud cases in the past, but nothing to this caliber."

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Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:58am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: And why kill a crossing guard hero? Oh, THEY knew what they'd done.

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Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:49am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: And why kill a crossing guard hero? right?

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Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:49am
Proclivities wrote: Yeah, the "after" makes it sort of unclear; how much "after" - an hour, a day? And why kill a crossing guard hero?

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Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:46am
Red_Dragon wrote: I see many headlines like this; particularly in local news: Crossing guard killed after saving kids from speeding car The tense bothers me. This reads as if he was killed after saving the kids. Wouldn't it be more correct to say: Crossing guard killed saving kids from speeding car? Yeah, the "after" makes it sort of unclear; how much "after" - an hour, a day?

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Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:21am
I see many headlines like this; particularly in local news: Crossing guard killed after saving kids from speeding car The tense bothers me. This reads as if he was killed after saving the kids. Wouldn't it be more correct to say: Crossing guard killed saving kids from speeding car?

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Posted: Aug 4, 2021 - 1:10pm
...In some instances, the term âgyreâ is used to refer to the collections of plastic waste and other debris found in higher concentrations in certain parts of the ocean. While this use of "gyre" is increasingly common, the term traditionally refers simply to large, rotating ocean currents.

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 12:48pm
oldviolin wrote: raises hand... But in my on defense, I'm not a writer. I'm sure that's not the point though... In my defense... I'm not even a speller. I are constukton werkeer.

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 11:07am

Proclivities wrote:

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Fair point but her bad examples are so extreme that no one can see themselves as guilty.

Yeah, I wish she'd given more of the sort of examples that many of us have to see or hear all the time - awful corporate terms like monetize, synergize, ideate, actionable, leverage (as a verb), incentivize, etc...

My favorite is The Mission Statement in which they do all of the above...

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 10:48am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Fair point but her bad examples are so extreme that no one can see themselves as guilty. Yeah, I wish she'd given more of the sort of examples that many of us have to see or hear all the time - awful corporate terms like monetize, synergize, ideate, actionable, leverage (as a verb), incentivize, etc...

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 9:39am
Made me think of some good writing by Orwell, on empire. "Marrakech” As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later. https://www.studocu.com/sg/document/singapore-university-of-social-sciences/analysing-prose-short-fiction-and-essays/marrakech-by-geroge-orwell/3654769

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 9:35am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Proclivities wrote: Fair point but her bad examples are so extreme that no one can see themselves as guilty. raises hand... But in my on defense, I'm not a writer. I'm sure that's not the point though...

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 9:29am
Proclivities wrote: Fair point but her bad examples are so extreme that no one can see themselves as guilty.

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 9:18am

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Posted: Nov 26, 2019 - 9:39am
Coaxial wrote: I saw this show across the river in Nanuet. AUG271974 Johnny Cash Theatre-Go-Round, Nanuet, NY, USA.... Cool

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