Posts by Rob Stowell
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Hey, disappointment is a friend for life! Unlike that bloody optimism, had it with that guy.... But it's probably not the time to skew the thread and discuss injuries to our motions/egos!
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Fairey Battle is a funny enough name for a warplane; the "fairy battler" would be a classic....
Seabirds yahoo! No gannets in our neck of the estuary (nor surf). Still pleased with the nesting black-backs, 'cos every year we get to watch the young (adolescents?) take gawky flying lessons, lurching about sideways as their parents soar smooth. Also the commoners- terns, cormorants, oyster-catchers, and the odd stalky grey heron, striding the tide-line. I've tried to photograph them but never had a long enough lens. One day. -
Ditto thanks Jen. Don't go away! WRT the "inner machinations"- you can all the husband off, he's both machine and poet and he's got a licence to use, abuse and recycle metaphors, metonyms or any other trope he can sling his hat at!
Riddley, yeah, the "pious" was a slip of the fingers. But "guinea-pigs" are useless at grammar and too fidgety to get "koan". We have been trying to educate them here for decades, had more success with sheep! -
Can I suggest the title "Pious Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics" Walker?
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I think Mike Chunn is advocating for the uke. It'd be a great move. Not only is the recorder a moderately difficult and dead-end instrument (sorry clarinetistes all!) but while you don't have to tune it, it's very rare to get a whole bunch of recorders that actually are in reasonable tune with each other. Never bothered me :-) but for a music teacher of my aquaintance with very good pitch it is torture.
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And to pay the bills, merc... always with the bills..
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reduced to impotent frustration trying to play the recorder in primary school. It wouldn't have turned out well.
Don't be so sure: playing recorder at primary school could drive__anyone__ to despair. I'd pay good money for footage of Sid V or Johnny R tootling in primer three....
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What is the law that sez whenever ytou make a pedantic point, your grammer or spelling go all to duggery?
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Truth is it's very hard to determine when snarkiness is going over the line, but very important there is a line; we've all been in fora where there isn't. It's enormously hard to read tone and "voice" sometimes. But ups to Deborah and Russell for talking it out like adults! I hope Craig turns up to do the same!
Back to the pedantry: "thearte" may be a little too fresh for there to be an established usage and I can't be bothered finding instances. Shouting "retreat!" is an imperative not a gerund, and while it's origins are nounish, I wonder if shouting "theatre" may not be a similar imperative? Until usage setles down, maybe wiki accept it as a "nerb". -
Jen is right, since even absurdities require semantics to make them absurd- and the orignial call of "theatre" in a theatre,"theatre" fairly clearly refers to a theatre....
On the other hand-since you can't really use a verb after 'call'
why not? Before anyone explains- I hereby call "retreat" and "surrender!"