like "Do those need to be there?" I don't know the answer to that question.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
this is a boring thing to say but probably when it comes to requests different ppl respond to differently to different approaches maybe
― mark s, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
we shd call this "winsing the thread"
― mark s, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
best if we all check in w each other
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
Silby dear, let's just talk about this at home
― mick signals, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
there's a poorly formed example in the post immediately preceding
― mark s, Friday, 29 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
Is it a recent trend to blurb or review a book by calling it "wise"? Have people always done this? Really annoying, usually at the end of a list of compliments like "this was heartwarming, funny, down to earth and wise".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 March 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
probably not that recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Wisdom
― mark s, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
"you deserve better"
― groovemaaan, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:10 (five years ago) link
You deserve better than 'you deserve better'.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
"funds" instead of "money" (eg "please send funds for my upcoming book project")
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
Prefer dosh.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
Lettuce
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Filthy lucre
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
Lorne Greene
― Boles to the Wolds (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
spondoolies
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
this was the response to a recent work request: "this will be efforted"
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
gross
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
here's one i've heard around the office a few times: "i just ran out of time"
oh you mean you never got around to it. gotcha
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
"this will be efforted"
Like "have a good one," calls to mind literal defecation
― mick signals, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
whoops here comes another efforting
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
/Directness is a virtue./otm, viva plain language for most immediate communicative purposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_language🕸
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 11 April 2019 06:25 (five years ago) link
How come you have to strive if it’s easy to use?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 11 April 2019 09:06 (five years ago) link
tippy toes
― meaulnes, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
More silly than annoying...The sports call-in was handicapping the Raptors-Magic series. One guy kept bringing up Orlando's "length"--must have said it three or four times. I'm only a casual basketball fan, but does this mean they have a deep bench (i.e., good players lined up down the bench)? Or does it mean they're a tall team? Depth and height are good words. They're quite enough.
I'm going to back away from any other possible meanings.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
In the context of professional basketball, "length" refers to whether a player has longer arms than would be average for a person of their height. A common way to phrase this desirable abnormality would be to say, for example, that a 6' 10" player has the "wingspan" of someone 7' 2".
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
agreed but i personally hate referencing forwards/centers as 'bigs' even more
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link
had a date this weekend and was asked "oh, so you like sportsball then?"
and put a foot out the door : /
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
I compiled these commandments for student writing, negotiable if they write sentences pleasurable in themselves and/or they prove their arguments.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 April 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
― mick signals, Wednesday, April 10, 2019 1:43 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I once worked with a guy who loathed this expression. I found this baffling because it seemed to me like such an inoffensive thing for a person to say. But now think I get it.
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
this doesn't really annoy me -- the noun is too weird a concept to normalise really -- but i just encountered "veritable cornucopia" in a manuscript i'm editing and it did make me myles-na-gCopaleen at it a bit
what nature does the cornucopia always share with la scission dans l'internationale (situationniste understood)
both are VERITABLE
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
What other generous quantity is veritable?The plethora.
― mick signals, Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
smorgasbord
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
feasts too
strunk and white advises that the editor substitute "motherfucking"
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
ha
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
as someone whose mood on any given day is almost entirely defecation-dependent "have a good one"'s applicability on this front is only one more argument in favor of its high seriousness
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5K2m8-XoAAYhX7.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
brb designing a metal teapot at the cum commune
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
the ultimate chaos didn't cum from the jizz flying everywhere in the trenches, it was having to gtfo nazi germany sharpish for most of 'em!
― calzino, Saturday, 27 April 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
The New Yorker coining this phrase makes it ten times better.
― jmm, Sunday, 28 April 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
"daddy?"
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 April 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
I compiled these commandments
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
Anyway, now that I've read then: well done.
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
KINDERGARTEN CUM COMMUNE
seriously
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 28 April 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
tracer hand is a cop
― j., Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
What age are your students, Alfred? I'm going to use some of those with my Y11s (15/16 yr olds). Cheers.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
Thank you! From eighteen to sixty-five.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
Charles Boyer turning into Juliette Binoche.
My memoir title.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Lol
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link