Huh? Name one.bpmod wrote: Actually, what the person meant to say is that humans are the only animal that drinks another animal's milk without killing the other animal first. Lots of animals drink the milk of their dead prey.
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OK. Leo. But you can call him whatever you want. He won't respond anyway.Vanya wrote:Huh? Name one.bpmod wrote: Actually, what the person meant to say is that humans are the only animal that drinks another animal's milk without killing the other animal first. Lots of animals drink the milk of their dead prey.
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Cute, but not really germane to my original post, as it's talking about an animal (humans) who, almost without exception (leaving aside, of course, the lactose intolerant) drinks the milk of another animal, kittens, by and large, generally don't nurse from anything other than cats.
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Wow-- really over half a year since we added to this?
Today on Jansing& Co, one of their Sub-Headlines: NRA ALSO ACTIVATING IT'S BASE TO PROTECT GUN RIGHTS. oy. msnbc. With professional writers and, we presume, editors.
And evidently in the search warrant for the Newtown Shooter's house, it listed a japanese sword "with canvass sheath." Does that mean they went house to house to find the sheath?
Today on Jansing& Co, one of their Sub-Headlines: NRA ALSO ACTIVATING IT'S BASE TO PROTECT GUN RIGHTS. oy. msnbc. With professional writers and, we presume, editors.
And evidently in the search warrant for the Newtown Shooter's house, it listed a japanese sword "with canvass sheath." Does that mean they went house to house to find the sheath?
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Why capitalize shooter?Paucle wrote:Wow-- really over half a year since we added to this?
Today on Jansing& Co, one of their Sub-Headlines: NRA ALSO ACTIVATING IT'S BASE TO PROTECT GUN RIGHTS. oy. msnbc. With professional writers and, we presume, editors.
And evidently in the search warrant for the Newtown Shooter's house, it listed a japanese sword "with canvass sheath." Does that mean they went house to house to find the sheath?
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MSNBC They're using Word.Paucle wrote:Wow-- really over half a year since we added to this?
Today on Jansing& Co, one of their Sub-Headlines: NRA ALSO ACTIVATING IT'S BASE TO PROTECT GUN RIGHTS. oy. msnbc. With professional writers and, we presume, editors.
And evidently in the search warrant for the Newtown Shooter's house, it listed a japanese sword "with canvass sheath." Does that mean they went house to house to find the sheath?
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OK, I'll bite: Same reason we capitalize "Ripper" in Jack the Ripper and Strangler in the Boston Strangler.Vanya wrote:Why capitalize shooter?Paucle wrote:Wow-- really over half a year since we added to this?
Today on Jansing& Co, one of their Sub-Headlines: NRA ALSO ACTIVATING IT'S BASE TO PROTECT GUN RIGHTS. oy. msnbc. With professional writers and, we presume, editors.
And evidently in the search warrant for the Newtown Shooter's house, it listed a japanese sword "with canvass sheath." Does that mean they went house to house to find the sheath?
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One of my intellectual peeves is poor grammar. I've seen signs written poorly nearly everywhere and it is quite mind boggling how I am one of the few who notices that the grammar is wrong. To that end, one of the greatest grammar jokes that I have seen is
An English professor wrote the words,
“Woman without her man is nothing” on the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”
The women wrote: “Woman: Without her, man is nothing.”
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The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”
The women wrote: “Woman: Without her, man is nothing.”
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A perennially popular (yet strangely absent) Pet Intellectual Peeve -- qualifying absolutes -- gets a new (to me, anyway) twist.
I was doing a little summer vacation research and saw this on the website for the Queen Mary in Long Beach:
NOT JUST UNIQUE .... ONE OF A KIND
http://www.queenmary.com
Can't decide whether to laugh or cry....... OK, I think I'm going to go with laugh
I was doing a little summer vacation research and saw this on the website for the Queen Mary in Long Beach:
NOT JUST UNIQUE .... ONE OF A KIND
http://www.queenmary.com
Can't decide whether to laugh or cry....... OK, I think I'm going to go with laugh
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Am I doin' it right?jkbrat wrote:A perennially popular (yet strangely absent) Pet Intellectual Peeve -- qualifying absolutes -- gets a new (to me, anyway) twist.
I was doing a little summer vacation research and saw this on the website for the Queen Mary in Long Beach:
NOT JUST UNIQUE .... ONE OF A KIND
http://www.queenmary.com
Can't decide whether to laugh or cry....... OK, I think I'm going to go with laugh
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I've been seeing this one several times a day lately.
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Unfortunately, "unique" long ago stopped meaning only "one of a kind."
My understanding of its current usage is if you want the "pure" version, use it without modifiers. If you want it to mean "unusual or rare," give it some help.
Of course, in your example, they do use the "one of a kind version," then say it again. Essentially, their copy reads, "Not just unique- unique!"
My understanding of its current usage is if you want the "pure" version, use it without modifiers. If you want it to mean "unusual or rare," give it some help.
Of course, in your example, they do use the "one of a kind version," then say it again. Essentially, their copy reads, "Not just unique- unique!"
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I'm remembering my high school days and the spring ritual of signing yearbooks.
My sister was not very pleased by the number of people who used the word "unique" in their inscriptions to and about her, because, as she put it, "unique" is just a fancy way of saying, "You odd, child!"
My sister was not very pleased by the number of people who used the word "unique" in their inscriptions to and about her, because, as she put it, "unique" is just a fancy way of saying, "You odd, child!"
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Sports are filled with cliches that drive me crazy. One is pluralizing a name to specify a type of player. For example,"You don't give a long-term contract to the Mark Sanchezes. you give them to the Peyton Mannings." As if there were more than one Peyton Manning, or Mark Sanchez for that matter.
The other is in football where they call quarterback, running back, and receivers the skill positions. So everything else is an unskilled position? Just once, after a coach says something like,"We're really strong in the skill positions," I'd like to hear a reporter follow-up with,"But how are you doing in the unskilled positions, coach?"
The other is in football where they call quarterback, running back, and receivers the skill positions. So everything else is an unskilled position? Just once, after a coach says something like,"We're really strong in the skill positions," I'd like to hear a reporter follow-up with,"But how are you doing in the unskilled positions, coach?"
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I'm so on-board with your pluralizing the singulars! That just grates on me.
For instance, my reaction if someone said that would be, "Well, I don't know about all of them, but the Peyton Manning who plays for the Broncos rates one! And definitely nobody named Mark Sanchez does, because if the only one I've ever heard of doesn't qualify, certainly none of the others who I've never heard of do."
For instance, my reaction if someone said that would be, "Well, I don't know about all of them, but the Peyton Manning who plays for the Broncos rates one! And definitely nobody named Mark Sanchez does, because if the only one I've ever heard of doesn't qualify, certainly none of the others who I've never heard of do."
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I'm sure there are a somewhat infinite number of such examples, but this one may be the most perfect. It may be time to admit that our preferred usage for "unique" is dead--80 to 90 percent dead anyway.jkbrat wrote:A perennially popular (yet strangely absent) Pet Intellectual Peeve -- qualifying absolutes -- gets a new (to me, anyway) twist.
I was doing a little summer vacation research and saw this on the website for the Queen Mary in Long Beach:
NOT JUST UNIQUE .... ONE OF A KIND
http://www.queenmary.com
Can't decide whether to laugh or cry....... OK, I think I'm going to go with laugh
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The sad truth is, broadcasters aren't trying to please the Paucles and silverscreentests. Let alone, the Opera.Paucle wrote:I'm so on-board with your pluralizing the singulars! That just grates on me.
For instance, my reaction if someone said that would be, "Well, I don't know about all of them, but the Peyton Manning who plays for the Broncos rates one! And definitely nobody named Mark Sanchez does, because if the only one I've ever heard of doesn't qualify, certainly none of the others who I've never heard of do."
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Nothing gets me going more than when commentators describe a quarterback as "efficient" because he throws a lot of short passes but doesn't turn the ball over. If the goal is to move down the field and score, then throwing a lot of short passes is INEFFICIENT.silverscreentest wrote:Sports are filled with cliches that drive me crazy