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| bio | website | synetech.dyndns.org |
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| location | Canada | |
| age | 34 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
| seen | Mar 11 at 2:06 | |
| stats | profile views | 125 |
In addition to my own studies (reading Strunk and White as well as numerous other books on grammar, style, and typography), I have studied language and linguistics in University including courses on linguistics and psychology of language.
I intend to someday (get around to) create the ultimate language that is efficient, easy to learn and use and beautiful to speak and write. Yes, it’s it a laudable and lofty goal, but one can hope…
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Apr 19 |
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Mar 26 |
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Mar 19 |
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Mar 10 |
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Feb 21 |
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Which one is it? “Damn” or “damned”? Except that damn is a verb, not an adjective. It is used interchangeably with damned simply because people do not enunciate the d at the end, which makes damned sound like damn. It is the same reason that the Internet generation keeps writing should of, would of, and could of. Yes, some dictionaries include damn as an adjective, but that’s all the more troubling. Just because lots of people do something wrong does not make it correct or acceptable. |
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Feb 21 |
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Which one is it? “Damn” or “damned”? @Dusty, oops, I misplaced the not. Just a second; I’ll fix it… |
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Feb 21 |
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Should “Hell” be capitalized? For the record, I have since capitalized it only when referring to the location. |
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Feb 21 |
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Why does the 3rd-person of verbs that end in -y follow the rule for plural nouns instead of verbs? @hit-and-run-downvoter, I don’t even care that you didn’t bother to explain why you down-voted because I haven’t even checked this question in a long time; so congratulations, you accomplished nothing whatsoever. |
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Nov 9 |
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Oct 26 |
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Oct 15 |
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Oct 11 |
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Oct 3 |
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Is there a symbol for “and/or”? Hmm, I don’t understand the confusion. I see it as clearly meaning one or more. The main problem comes when stringing together more than two items in that manner; it becomes quite unwieldy. |
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Sep 17 |
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Use of “deadpool” as a verb You're thinking of a death pool (more specifically, a celebrity death pool). |
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Sep 4 |
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Regional pronunciation of “calliope”? That’s strange. I too only saw one pronunciations when I first looked at the page. o.O Thanks for pointing it out. |
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Sep 2 |
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Regional pronunciation of “calliope”? Hmm, I saw the IPA at the top of the Greek muse Wiki page, but there was none for the musical instrument. I didn’t think it might be present later in the article (I have only ever seen it at the top, but I guess if the pronunciation is noteworthy, it would have its own section). I’ll chalk it up to there indeed being two pronunciations (though all the sites I checked only listed one). |
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Sep 2 |
accepted | Regional pronunciation of “calliope”? |
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Sep 2 |
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Regional pronunciation of “calliope”? @BillFranke, right, the lady was selling a ancient, mythical Greek muse. :roll: (Besides, even if I were talking about the proper noun, where do you think I got the IPA in the above question? Or maybe you think the name is pronounced cal-i-ope.) |
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Sep 2 |
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Regional pronunciation of “calliope”? @BillFranke, if someone has never seen “Bill” before and pronounced it as Bile or as Beel (i is pronounced as ee in many/most languages), it does not mean an attack, nor a speech impediment; they are just pronouncing it phonetically (just like I did with Penelope when I was a child). Either way, there is a correct pronunciation and there is nothing arrogant about that. Some words have multiple pronunciations, but this one does not. I checked several sites and they all listed just one; and you have not provided a source showing another. (Besides, I never said it was correct or incorrect.) |
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Sep 2 |
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Regional pronunciation of “calliope”? @BillFranke, if someone pronounced your name Bile, I doubt that you would accept it and not call it wrong. |
