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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts 
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True, but there are alternatives.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12587 Posts
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I'd just pick either "he'll" or "she'll." But "he'll/she'll," though awkward, would still be correct. (It would be nice if we had a neutral singular pronoun other than "it.")
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Garbo Regular user 138 Posts
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Could you be more pacific...?
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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When did "never mind" become one word?
Similarly for "a lot". |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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And, apparently, "at least".
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
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Theiyr're
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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A serious question (I know: utterly out of character for me, but try to get past that):
I'm a moderator on another forum whose constituency comprises a lot of people who are not native English speakers and who, because of the nature of the forum, ask a lot of technical questions and, therefore, proffer a lot of technical answers. When I find that someone has made a serious error in their writing - using a homonym, for example, or egregious misspelling - is it appropriate to use my superpowers to edit their posts, or is that overstepping my bounds? (Then, alas, there's the native English speaker who wrote that, "<a particular organization> never seizes to amaze me." Sigh.) |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On Jun 20, 2014, S2000magician wrote: I think you should leave the posts as they are, even though changing them would clearly not alter their meaning, for all intensive purposes.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5208 Posts
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Not a peeve, more like something I always wondered about: curious/curiosity. I'm curious why curiosity drops the u. Are there any analogous examples?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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Viscous/viscosity
Luminous/luminosity Voluminous/voluminosity
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts
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On Jun 20, 2014, S2000magician wrote: This had me in hysterics...thanks for the chuckle, you serious gentleman you! |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Jun 23, 2014, LobowolfXXX wrote: Monstrous/monstrosity Pompous/pomposity |
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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts
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Porous / Porosity
Along the same lines, judge / judgment (drops the e) But not Devious / Deviosity. 
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Humorous/humorosity
Glamorous/glamorosity Ridiculous/ridiculosity |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Here's one I'd not seen before: gratitudity.
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts
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That doesn't even sound correct.
Try to use that in a sentence please? |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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A gratitudity of 18% will be added to bills for all parties of 10 or more.
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts
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Platitude/platitudity
(No shizz?) that's a new one for me. "The platypuss' nudity was fraught with platitudity." |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Jun 29, 2014, Devious wrote: On the subject of spelling mistakes . . . platypuss? |
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts
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Ha-ha...I'm blaming my phone's spell check for this one.
Kudos for the correction. |
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