I don't rankle listening to conversation. It goes against my professional
training.
When I was working for President Carter, however, I couldn't resist
correcting him when he said "nukular." I'm also from Georgia, and I
understood where that came from. But I don't remember that Jimmy ever got
At some point in the past I got mildly interested in linlguistics, and
linguists believe that there are very many dialects for most languages.
I got less stressed after I changed my “‘Axe’? The word is
‘ask’, dumbo” response to “‘Axe’? Oh he/she is speaking that
dialect”. But I agree that
In order to go to Infinting and beyond. Have Rex and woody get the
zargle type one flux repair module for a type 3 warp cleared space craft.
Then the evil forces of Lord Zedd and Emperror Zurg can be thwarted.
I'll be around all week.
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:18 PM Steve Smith wrote:
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Nick -
i used to faint-dead when people used "inform" to mean "shape" as
in,"My thinking was informed by Glen's concept, Steelmanning," but I
am trying to get over that. Turns out it's a perfectly valid meaning
of the verb, and I don't have a leg to stand on. I still hate it,
but I hate
So there’s a fun frivolous branch from the cases you list here.
I happen to share your allergy at the not-nuclear (can’t even bring myself to
type it).
But on aks, I learned something a few years ago (10?) from our phonologist
colleague Ian Maddieson when we were doing language work together.
Nothing could be more calculated to bring an old pedant out from under his
rock than this thread:
Mine is the use of "incredible" to mean "excellent". As in, "Don't you
think Rachel Maddow is an incredible commentator?" There was an Australian
Philosopher, David Stove, who wrote a book
Glen -
I appreciate that you shared with us your "handicap" which reminds me of
your self-report a few years back of tryptophobia.
I also am triggered by both of these. Your examples of Nukular/Nuclear
and Axe/Ask are obviously pretty familiar. I respond to them pretty
pre-consciously
I made the mistake of confessing my handicap to a friend. Now he purposefully
says nukular as a kind of Castañedan slap on the back, or the master's whack
with the stick. He knows it knocks me out of whatever canal I was in. It's
irritating, but a good thing overall.
Actually, it started with
My dad was a nuclear engineer and nukular has always bothered me greatly.
I try to help people to say it right by telling them to think "new clear".
I'm not sure that would help Bush.
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On Fri, Dec 1, 2023,
So, on the death of The War Criminal, I've been reflecting on the most
irritating thing to me about George W Bush's stint: nukular. Sure. It's
irritating that he started a war for no good reason. If we learn anything from
Kissinger's treatment by the press, it's that those sorts of things
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