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It's all beaches, beaches, beaches, bush, mountains and lakes.
plus the usual bad music editing
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My thoughts on Rock 'n Roll halls of fame are closer to those of the Sex Pistols.
That said, It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Jordan's a genuine creative genius (which is to say that his mind works on a level different from the rest of us - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!, indeed), and a great guy, to boot. A lot of artists make good or even really good music, but it's a rare few that have the ability to create stuff that just organically connects with so many people; that sound like an old friend, the first time you hear it. That's the true measure of pop music, and in this country no-one's done it quite like he has.
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My pet peeve is the increasing use of "orientated", a back derivation from "orientation"
I recently heard an American politician use the "word" "evolutionized", for "evolved"
@ Emma Hart,
re: "either" being singular.
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to stand in say 1950 (1960, 1970 etc), pointing at 2007 saying "that's wrong", without looking at the couple of thousand years behind you is, I think, short-sighted.
No-one's saying that *all* new, altered usage is "incorrect"; just some. When people say "should of", it's not an example of the vibrant evolution of the language; it's just a mistake.
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It's "past tense", not "passed tense". :)
By the way, slightly off topic but distantly related - I noticed that Flight of the Conchords fellows Brent and Jermaine are each lacking the letter "r" in their names.
Er, surely Bret is in fact missing one letter "t"?
I don't understand, on this one, what either of you are saying. (He says, taking care not to split the infinitive).
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good poking at that apostrophe.
Don't forget the hyphen. ;)
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I seriously don't understand this view of language. 'Correctness' in language, as people put it about these days, is pretty much what our grandparents/parents (depending on your age) had beaten into them at school. It's post WWII Queens English.
Actually, it's "post-WWII Queen's English".
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...leaving a 20 year old in their place, you could say they're actually less expert than many of us. When a journo doesn't know who David Lange is, for example, you might have cause to despair.
True, but how many 35 year olds don't know who Keith Holyoake is? Most of them, I'd wager.
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Another one: people using "light year" as a unit of time.
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Dyan,
Good comment, but "adoo"? Do you mean "ado"?Also, not convinced that there is such a usage of "mortified", but maybe I've just not come across it.
TV Newsreaders PLEASE TAKE NOTE:
The past tense of the verb "text" is "texted", not "text"; just because the end of it sort of sounds like "...ed", don't make it so.
pet peeve pronounciations
"Eye-rack" / "Eye-rahk", "Eye-ran" / "Eye-rahn", and "NicaRAG-u-uh". No excuses; just wrong. ("Nye-ger", I can live with, but it should be "nee-Zhair").
People pronouncing "albeit" as "AL-be-it", instead of "ALL-be-it".
And Brian Edwards can bite me if he thinks common usage based on error trumps correctness!