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otterwmn
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response 75 of 346:
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Mar 28 14:30 UTC 1995 |
I answer thephone. The caller asks for Kae. Is the proper response "this is
she" or "this is her"? I usually just say, "speaking".
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popcorn
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response 76 of 346:
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Mar 28 15:12 UTC 1995 |
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popcorn
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response 77 of 346:
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Mar 28 15:15 UTC 1995 |
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md
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response 78 of 346:
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Mar 28 15:54 UTC 1995 |
Agora is pronouced AG-er-uh. Accent on the first syllable,
first syllable rhymes with "gag," second and third syllables
barely vocalized.
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md
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response 79 of 346:
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Mar 28 16:13 UTC 1995 |
[Question: When in my day-to-day life have I ever been
called upon to pronounce the word "agora" unless I was
talking about Grex? Good question. The cafeteria in
the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College used to be called
"The Agora." Still is, for all I know. A cherished coffee
stain on several pages of my Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
happened there. Anyway, the place was called "The AG-er-uh."
I just looked it up in the dictionary, which confirms this.
Not to be confused with the Hebrew coin of the same name,
pronounced "ah-go-RAH."]
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fitz
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response 80 of 346:
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Mar 28 16:23 UTC 1995 |
I would like to air my pet peeve concerning English usage. However,
I must also say that the object of my disdain has now spread far
into everyday use to the point that my complaint is moot.
Before 1970, books were indexed with entries for "sexual discrimination,"
"sex role typing," and "sex stereotyping". Nowadays the word 'gender"
has replaced the word sex. Gender, in the old days, refered to an attribute
of nouns and not the reproductive properties of humans. "Gender discrimina-
tion" *was* once poor usage, but the needless insistance for euphemisms
has made it now standard Enclish.
My crusade has been crushed: Who will rally behind the cry, "Words have
gender: People have sex."
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birdlady
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response 81 of 346:
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Mar 28 17:21 UTC 1995 |
Re: #75 When the caller asks for you, you are supposed to say, "This is
she." I also usually just say, "Speaking."
Pet peeves of mine are many...that's why I'm an English major. :)
1. Two, too, and to. Two is a number, to is referring to a destination, and
too is also.
2. Present Perfect: ex: "have bought" "have eaten" "have shopped" You do
not say "have boughten" or "have ate". I hear those the most.
3. Using possessive pronouns with apostrophes: "her's", "your's", and "who's"
are all incorrect. They should be: "hers", "yours", and "whose".
Any questions? :) I *love* his item, by the way...I usually get yelled at for
correcting people.
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gregc
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response 82 of 346:
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Mar 28 18:49 UTC 1995 |
I've always pronounced it: "ah gor eh"
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peacefrg
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response 83 of 346:
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Mar 28 19:06 UTC 1995 |
Thats funny, I've always pronounced it Beatrice :)
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anne
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response 84 of 346:
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Mar 28 19:50 UTC 1995 |
<anne is rotfl>
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scg
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response 85 of 346:
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Mar 28 20:27 UTC 1995 |
When somebody calls and asks for Kae, I usually tell them they have the
wrong number. OTOH, when somebody cals and asks for Steve, I usually say
"this is Steve," or soemthing like that, I think.
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nephi
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response 86 of 346:
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Mar 28 21:40 UTC 1995 |
Contrary to what many here seem to think, I answer the phone "This is
he."
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nicely
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response 87 of 346:
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Mar 28 21:42 UTC 1995 |
So if I would call you, you would answer the phone and say, "This is he?"
Why don't you just say hello, nephi? :)
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nephi
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response 88 of 346:
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Mar 28 22:14 UTC 1995 |
(Wise ass . . . 8*)
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birdlady
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response 89 of 346:
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Mar 28 22:40 UTC 1995 |
rotfl at everyone
Another pet peeve: whom and who
Whom receives the action of the verb, such as: "to whom am I speaking", "to
whom it may concern", "to whomever is speaking to me", etc
Who refers to a person: "Who is that?", "Where is the person who was supposed
to pick me up?"
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popcorn
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response 90 of 346:
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Mar 29 01:17 UTC 1995 |
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popcorn
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response 91 of 346:
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Mar 29 01:17 UTC 1995 |
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nephi
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response 92 of 346:
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Mar 29 02:02 UTC 1995 |
Why?
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aruba
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response 93 of 346:
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Mar 29 02:12 UTC 1995 |
Re #90: I get a kick out of the fact that the past tenses of the verb
"forgo" are "forgone" and "forwent".
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scg
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response 94 of 346:
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Mar 29 03:06 UTC 1995 |
re 80:
I've taken to answering forms that ask for gender with
"masculine," as a protest against what I see as incorrect word usage.
Gender usually referrs to words, and is generally masculine, feminine,
or, in some languages, neuter. Sex is male and female.
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mdw
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response 95 of 346:
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Mar 29 04:05 UTC 1995 |
Re #75, my most probably answer would be "huh?" since it's extremely
unlikely anyone would ever call my house looking for Kae. But if they
call looking for a past resident, I'm likely to instead ask "who are
you?" It seems to me it it's incredibly rude to call a number and
insist on speaking to any particular person without being willing to
identify yourself first. I'm not particularly willing to either confirm
or deny that anyone lives in my house, or act as an answering service,
for a perfect stranger who doesn't necessarily have any legitimate
business at all in the first place.
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davel
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response 96 of 346:
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Mar 29 13:06 UTC 1995 |
Personally, I don't mind just saying "I'm sorry, you must have the wrong
number." (The two or three people who have then gone on to insist that I
must be wrong about this have *really* irritated me, I must admit.) But
I agree that a request that the caller identify himself is always
reasonable.
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otterwmn
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response 97 of 346:
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Mar 29 13:13 UTC 1995 |
I was just responding to the "Energy Saving Shower Head" item, and remembered
a particularly irritating usage mistake. "Hot water heater" implies that one
must heat water that is already hot. And what's with "unthaw"? To unthaw some-
thing is to freeze it.
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md
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response 98 of 346:
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Mar 29 13:28 UTC 1995 |
This is not exactly a grammar complaint, but I do wish
typesetters and editors would relearn the difference
between a dash and a hyphen. There never used to be a
problem, but then computers came along and everything went
to hell.
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popcorn
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response 99 of 346:
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Mar 29 15:22 UTC 1995 |
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