Pat, I met a bloke who gave me his business card "Lead Buyer" it saidIt's all in the fricken context! eh?
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I'm in the lead to win a comp for a dog lead made of lead. That makes sense dont it?
Quirks I guess? God love it, but where's the logic?Pat, I met a bloke who gave me his business card "Lead Buyer" it said
so I quizzed him on what the price of lead was -
and he looked at me as if I was crazy.
Like
"Lead Sinker" vs "Lead Singer"
or
"Lead lead the metals during today's market". etc etc
"Lead lead the metals during the lead-in to today's market(??)"
exactlyQuirks I guess? God love it, but where's the logic?
estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers
PS The many choices of English words for any meaning surely have more subtlety of meaning than a language like say Esperanto yes? Although Esperanto has noble origins.
btw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
Esperanto (the word) means "one who hopes" .
Quote:
Esperanto (help·info) is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the Unua Libro in 1887. The word itself means 'one who hopes'. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding
Although no country has adopted the language officially, it has enjoyed continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers. By some estimates, there are about a thousand native speakers.[2]
Today, Esperanto is employed in world travel, correspondence, cultural exchange, conventions, literature, language instruction, television (Internacia Televido) and radio broadcasting.[citation needed] Some state education systems offer elective courses in Esperanto[citation needed], and in one university instruction is in the language (see Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino). There is evidence that learning Esperanto is a useful preparation for later language learning (see Propaedeutic value of Esperanto for more details).
Have you noticed how some people seem to have a fixation on negative termonology!?
I read somewhere ages ago that it is a lot more difficult for the human brain to process negative termonology, especially immature, still developing brains that have little or no concept of comprehension until about 3 yr old.
The parent is going on in an angry voice to a 2 yr old like "Don't kick the ball inside the house." But the kid just wants to kick the ball and all he hears is people getting angry with him.If the parent had said "Take the ball outside and kick the ball on the grass", It would be a lot easier for the child to understand what the parent wanted.
Can you imagine trying to train a dog to 'sit', buy saying "Don't stand" or 'come' by saying "Don't go over there."
It particularly annoys me when these people then talk about disciplining their children and pets in terms of yelling at them and smacking etc,for trying to do what they hear as opposed to what these people think they are trying to convey to them.
Have you noticed how some people seem to have a fixation on negative termonology!?
I read somewhere ages ago that it is a lot more difficult for the human brain to process double negative language, especially immature, still developing brains that have little or no concept of comprehension until about 3 yr old.
It particularly annoys me when these people then talk about disciplining their children and pets in terms of yelling at them and smacking etc, for trying to do what they hear as opposed to what these people think they are trying to convey to them.
lol - brilliant example m8Can you imagine trying to train a dog to 'sit', buy saying "Don't stand" or 'come' by saying "Don't go over there."
It particularly annoys me when these people then talk about disciplining their children and pets
My most stuffed up spelling is the word patients or patience....
How do you write a patient patient? Like that?
p.s. termonology is agreed by many to be spelled terminology.
p.p.s. it takes awareness that one is talking in the neg. to effect change to stating what the parent wants.The word don`t is an easy add on.
Undersatnd, So a patient patient makes sense/centsYes, Pat, assuming you are describing e.g. a person waiting to see a doctor who doesn't mind the doctor running two hours behind time. In that case the first 'patient' is used as an adjective. If you were wanting to describe the characteristic he is displaying by not getting anxious about the waiting time you would say he is displaying 'patience' (noun).
I'm now worried I might have confused you further????
Fred went to the shop and bought some bread ,milk ,potatoes ,and a pack of cigarettes .
Fred went to the shop and bought some bread, milk, potatoes and a pack of cigarettes.
" Just quoting myself for later reference " ( and using parentheses to include an aside ) .
"Just quoting myself for later reference" (and using parentheses to include an aside).
Lets try a little punctuation, shall we?
Firstly, all sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. A full stop is also known as a 'period'.
What, did you call MeIs there a perfectionist on the forum?
JoeLets try a little punctuation, shall we?
This is how is should be:
Fred went to the shop and bought some bread, milk, potatoes and a pack of cigarettes.
The one that always gets me is when people use a full-stop at the end of an obvious question, instead of a question mark. It's a mistake I make from time to time and it annoys me even more when I do it and spot my own mistake.
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