surely can't use 'gentry' for the newcomers, that's a very specific class.
'current residents' and 'new arrivals' imo
― crushing the frantic penguins (c sharp major), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
PRINT IT
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I have here a lengthy sentence: "The facts that (LONG CLAUSE) and that (LONG CLAUSE) make us hopeful that..."
My colleague change it to "fact" and left "make," which can't be right. The original is OK if clumsy, yes?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I would probably have done "the fact that... and that... makes us" etc — but that's just my gut instinct, I dunno if it's the most correct way to do it
― unemployed aerosmith fans I have shoved (bernard snowy), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Original certainly IS clumsy, but at least it's all in agreement. Not so for the "fix".
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Does each [LONG CLAUSE] individually make us hopeful, or is the combination of/relationship between [LONG CLAUSE]s that does?
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
each individually
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, in that case, I think you're right.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
of course, the two facts in combination probably make them more hopeful.
The main argument I'm getting is "The facts that..." is too awkward.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 December 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Generally sentences with "the fact that" or "the fact is" or "the facts (whatever)" should be rewritten to exclude the "fact" bit. "The fact that these sentences are flawed means they should be rewritten" is less efficient than "These sentences are flawed and should be rewritten". Hope that helps.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, but it was an editorial by the editors of the journal, soooo....
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
show em who's boss imo
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 December 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
[LONG CLAUSE] and [LONG CLAUSE]; these facts make us hopeful that etc etc
― pixel farmer, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Woah or Whoa?
I've always written the former, but someone was moaning about it the other day and since then I've seen it written as "whoa". Is this a US thing?
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
its whoa, woah is wrong
― max, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
WH = wuh sound (where, when, why, etc.) + OA = dominant sound in OAts, OAr, etc.
Having it end in AH sounds more like something Al Pacino would say in a movie.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"Woah" is what Snowy says in the English-lang Tintin books. Seems ridic anywhere else.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it supposed to rhyme with "Noah"?
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
WH = wuh sound (where, when, why, etc.) + OA = dominant sound in OAts, OAr, etc
This doesn't make much sense in England ('wh' pronounced exactly the same as 'w', e.g. 'watt' and 'what') and 'oats' and 'oar' start with totally different vowel sounds.
― Sepp Blatter quipped (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
This came up recently and in a moment of revelation I realised that I would always use 'Woah' for the exclamation of surprise, and 'Whoa' as an instruction, mainly for horses, but generically to indicate any sort of need to come to a halt. I have no idea if this is actually a thing other than in my brain.
― Herr Kapitan Pugvosh (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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Go to http://www.oed.com/ then the sign in and password is trynewoed.
I'm going for Option 1 -
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― Herr Kapitan Pugvosh (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Hurrah, they've revised their entry on "gaydar."
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope it now says suzy invented it!
― Alba, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Earliest citation now:
1988 Philadelphia Inquirer 23 Mar. b7/1 Making use of what he called ‘gaydar’, Richard A. Friend moved to the center of a stage‥and scanned the audience of about 60 students and staff‥. Friend, an instructor in human sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania, told the crowd he would point out all the lesbians and gays in the audience and have them stand up.
Does Suzy know Richard A. Friend?
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, this was me in the irrationally angry thread. I'm afraid "woah" is going to be universally accepted usage within a few years, but it's total nails-on-blackboard to me.
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I refuse to let that happen, not in the United States of America, at least.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate it too, mostly because it looks like it would rhyme with Noah. "WO-ah"
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Godammint.
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/97/screenshot20110107at119.pnghttp://img714.imageshack.us/img714/97/screenshot20110107at119.png
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, January 7, 2011 5:16 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
^^^
Yes. And even there it always bugged me, because I wasn't sure what sound I was supposed to be imagining coming from Snowy. I decided it was just a funny European way of writing BARK BARK BARK.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I always kind of heard it as an old-fashioned clown horn, I can't help myself. "Ah-WOOOO-gah!"
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2009/04/whoa-and-woah.html
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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dude DADT was repealed, he's now Richard My Boyfriend
― "Smurfette's Smurfy Adventsmurf" (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
What sensible orthographic relationship could be shared by both woah and Noah?
― Aimless, Friday, 7 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
fwiw (what with the free subscription and all)
†1. whoa ho ho, used to call attention from a distance. Obs.
a1616 Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 76 He hallow'd but euen now. Whoa-ho-hoa.1623 Shaks. Merry W. v. v. 187 Whoa hoe, hoe, Father Page.(Hide quotations) € 2. A word of command to a horse or other draught-animal to stop or stand still; also used otherwise in collocation with other words, as come hither whoa, gee-whoa, hait-whoa, whoa back. Hence used jocularly to a person as a command to stop or desist. (Cf. woa int.)
/wəʊ/Forms: Also woah.(Show Less)Etymology: Variant of whoa int.Thesaurus » = wo int. 2.
1841 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xxxviii. 3 Woa-a-a then, will you?1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 530/1 With a loud ‘woah!’ the man stopped the beast [sc. ass].1892 Chevalier Wot Cher! iv, ‘Woa! steady! Neddy Woa!’(Hide quotations) Derivatives
woa v. to stop (trans. and intr.) with the call of ‘woa’.
1870 S. Lanier Nine from eight 31, I woa'd my mules mighty easy.1871 M. Legrand Cambr. Freshman 252 Woa, Princey, woa! But Prince wouldn't ‘woa.’
― Herr Kapitan Pugvosh (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 7 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
in family guy when stewie's doing that irritating "cool wHip" thing, thats what you wrongheaded whoa-advocates are sounding like. it's obvious just from looking at the word and the way people pronounce it that the expression of surprise is 'woah'. elements of what GR ring true though.
unless this is another orrible americanisation in which case im out.
― NI, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd never seen "woah" until the last couple of years; assumed it was sloppy smartphone typing.
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
My trusty old Australian OED has only 'whoa' and lists only the definition about horses. Will not use either word until I have a definitive answer.
― "Smurfette's Smurfy Adventsmurf" (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 8 January 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
david walliams says woah if that helps
― conrad, Saturday, 8 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
in family guy when stewie's doing that irritating "cool wHip" thing, thats what you wrongheaded whoa-advocates are sounding like.
So are you saying it should be spelled Cool Wiph?
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 9 January 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Nobody knocks Stewie on my watch.
― Dick slap Army (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 January 2011 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
waht
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Sunday, 9 January 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
wewh, close one
My friend just wrote "whoah" on Facebook.
― Alba, Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
from the nyt this morning:
"A few top universities have become more choosey about giving credit."
"choosey" with an e? guess the isley brothers approve
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Sunday, 9 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
this post by Mark G reminded me of a question I had:
Yeah, but most if not all other female "non-pop-music" gets compared to Kate Bush.
now that 'non-pop-music' I think should be just 'non-pop music', but what are you supposed to do in general if you're adding a hyphenated prefix to a term that's already hyphenated? Two hyphens just don't look right.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Technically, the uh boy I don't know any of the terms for this, this is gonna be messy...
The original term drops the hyphen, and the new modifying term picks it up. Thus, "non-pop music".
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
right, that was my intuition. will come in useful someday i'm sure, thx.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you imagining, for instance, a magazine that employs a pop-music critic and a non-pop-music critic?
A similar example was discussed upthread.
(I would probably use both hyphens. Nabisco would use an en-dash: "non–pop music critic.")
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm tired, so:
An era where...orAn era when...
?
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Friday, 14 January 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
when, for me
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 14 January 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link