"moot" is a tricky one. It seems to have more-or-less antonymous
meanings depending upon which side of the pond you're on.
(Damn!, ended a sentence with a prep.)
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-----Original Message-----
From: G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 09:16
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Hot Button - English pedantry
One final one that i just HAD to add to this OT post: Lose vs. Loose.
Gets my blood boiling for some reason. I'm convinced that well over half
the population believes that "lose" is the opposite of "tight", and that my
Royals "loose" twice as many games as they win.....
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Corfield
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:59 PM
Subject: Hot Button - English pedantry (was: cfmail suddenly not
working...very wierd
> But the error message infers that the login is not being accepted.
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*implies*
You might *infer* from the error message that the login is not being
accepted.
The error message might well *imply* that the login is not being
accepted.
Sorry, but my wife & I were just bemoaning the fact that many people
out there don't know the difference between affect / effect, mute /
moot, and infer / imply and I swore to her that computer people get
infer / imply right most of the time...
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