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Whoa. It's spelled whoa.
When you take a breath, you breathe.
When you smooth cream on a burn, you soothe it.
When someone gives a present to him(and me), or (him and)me, we say thank you.
When he(and I) or (he and)I want to go somewhere, we book tickets.
When he lays me down on the bed, I may have laid here since yesterday, and I will lie here till I'm ready to rise.
He may be prostrate with pain, if his prostate is injured.
Not everybody fists something, just because it's a new, popular, and rapidly becoming cliche'd way to use a noun.
More as I think of them. Thank you for your attention.
When you take a breath, you breathe.
When you smooth cream on a burn, you soothe it.
When someone gives a present to him(and me), or (him and)me, we say thank you.
When he(and I) or (he and)I want to go somewhere, we book tickets.
When he lays me down on the bed, I may have laid here since yesterday, and I will lie here till I'm ready to rise.
He may be prostrate with pain, if his prostate is injured.
Not everybody fists something, just because it's a new, popular, and rapidly becoming cliche'd way to use a noun.
More as I think of them. Thank you for your attention.
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PS thanks for this. Especially the prostrate/prostate one. I'm a geek, I know, but this kind of stuff makes me MAD. (I'm finally getting to the point where I can ignore bad spelling from people on my f-list, but I've managed to hurt a couple people by pointing theirs out in what I thought was a friendly manner.)
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I attend orientation not to become orientated, but to become oriented. I don't hear an interpretation to have the material interpretated, do I?
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When my husband started his first job (at an Australian university), a colleague came into his office and said: "I'm supposed to orientate you." Then he pointed out the window and said: "That's North."
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Welcome, btw. I should have intro'd myself. I am, as you see, crass and crude. And stealthy. Let's not forget stealthy. The stealth friender what friends at midnight, etc.
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Um. People use fist as a verb to mean...? I know the one way I've heard it used, but I doubt that's common talk on a daily basis.
Oh, Oh! You can add definitely, too.
'Course, I know I probably ping someone's pet peeve with something every day. Still.
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And I think (but am not sure) the problem with using whether is that one has to also use "or not."
Also? Icon loooove!
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Nah - you really only need to use "or not," well, when you need to. "I'm so tired of standing here that I'm getting on that train whether or not it goes all the way downtown," wouldn't make sense without the "or not." "I'm not sure whether that train goes downtown," doesn't need it, so "or not" is just extraneous. Having said that, I'm sure there are many who would disagree. But it's my stand, and I'm stickin' to it!
Thank you. I love, love, love my Star Trek icons!
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Sorry, sorry.
Here, be distracted by some pretty!
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No, you perv, not that. "...hands fisted in his jacket..." "fisted his (insert overblown adjectives here) cock" which, you know, sounds really painful, because to make a fist one closes the fingers into the palm, not close them *around* something, and I'm not sure the first is the image they were going for.
And I'm all for verbing nouns, as it can make for lovely startling image-ful writing. But it's like fist has become the verbed noun of the year, and suddenly everyone has to use it. It's suddenly everywhere, and it's starting to wear.
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Think I shall reply in my own journal.
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Like when Dean was attacking Metallicar with the crowbar... total rucking of the shirt description opportunity. ::is lost in reverie:: I mean, perfectly legitimate use of the word, and all...
Hell. Who am I to talk about anything? I am a total ellipsis abuser, and an unapologetic one at that. They're just so handy!
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An aquaintance who teaches middle school got the (and me) thing wrong the other day. In print. I cringe.
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It's all about whether it needs its apostrophe.
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I'm torn on the issue of verb-ing nouns. Sometimes its extremely useful, because it allows for more casual construction, and/or it makes it easier to describe situations/things/etc. that never previously existed.
On the other hand, I despise verb-ifying nouns just for the sake of it. An example: at work, we do all typesetting/layout/design in Quark XPress. There are several design software packages that exist, and some companies, for whatever reason, use more than onw. However, my company only uses one design software package, so if my boss were to tell me, "Please typeset chapter 12," I would know that she meant I should use Quark XPress in order to typeset said chapter.
My boss, however, thinks that its cute to tell me, "Please Quark chapter 12." THERE IS NO VERB THERE!!!! The verb, goddamnit, is "typeset."
(By the way, I totally get that my position is inconsistent. What can I say? I am vast [and cranky]; I contain multitudes.)
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I can't understand why no one seems able to spell whoa. It isn't just a random sound; it really is a word.
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If you are lying face up, then you are SUPINE.
That one always gets me, but I studied anatomy so the inaccuracy particularly grates because I know they are saying the exact OPPOSITE of what they mean.