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3410,
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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It's "past tense", not "passed tense". :)
I was going to say that, but I knew you'd be along soon enough ;-)
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I don't understand, on this one, what either of you are saying. (He says, taking care not to split the infinitive).
Bret and Jemaine of Flight of the Conchords both have unusual variant spellings of their Christian names, in that each appears to be missing a letter. If I ever interview them, this will be on the list of questions.
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3410,
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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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.
And I just like "enormity". It has a flavour.
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Change and decay in all around I see, Kyle. Just because change is inevitable doesn't mean I have to like it :)
Perhaps the missing letters explain the extra h in conchord, by way of compensation?
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I don't understand, on this one, what either of you are saying. (He says, taking care not to split the infinitive).
Actually, that should be 'what either of you is saying'. Either and neither are singular.
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Er, surely Bret is in fact missing one letter "t"?
Damn, you NZers are observant.
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Couldn't Bret be missing an "n"?
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It's "past tense", not "passed tense". :)
See? You may not be able to pronouce the letter "r", but dang, you are observant. And good spellers.
Except Brent and Jermaine's parents.
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Or be a metasthetic Bert?
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Couldn't Bret be missing an "n"?
Unlikely. Name me a star of either stage or screen who is called Brent.
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Couldn't Bret be missing an "n"?
Unlikely. Name me a star of either stage or screen who is called Brent.
Well, duh, that's obviously why he changed it when he got to the States. Ha, not so observant now are we mes amis?
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Perhaps the missing letters explain the extra h in conchord, by way of compensation?
Some people claim Bob Dylan added a "g" to the name of the gunslinger John Wesley Hardin to make up for all the 'gs'' he'd dropped in the titles of other songs.
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Google tells me that Bret with one t isn't an uncommon name - Bret Easton-Ellis for all you Psychos; Bret "the Hitman" Hart, for the wrestlemaniacs; Bret Wolfe, gay porn star, for, well, you know. They all appear above Bret McKenzie on the first page.
OTOH, Brent mostly consists of Brent Borough Council in Middlesex, and some grade of oil called Brent Crude (who might also be a gay porn star for all I know).
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There's... David Brent. I don't suppose he counts. And Brent Musberger.
I believe the Conchords have that extra h to make a musical pun, Beatles-styles.
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Members of the community are cordially invited to now come up with examples of words whose "wrong" meaning has become generally accepted through sheer currency in the language.
Bimbo - I seem to remember this meant a silly person, if not specifically a man as late as the 1980s.
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Anyone brought up the usurpation of `uninterested' by `disinterested' - makes this old pedant want to go postal...
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Anyone brought up the usurpation of `uninterested' by `disinterested' - makes this old pedant want to go postal...
I also hate that and I don't consider myself that pedantic.
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Me three on the uninterested/disinterested thing. Ack!
Uninterested: not interested
Disinterested: unbiasedHow hard is that to remember? Seriously!
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My pet peeve is the increasing use of "orientated", a back derivation from "orientation", when the perfectly serviceable (and shorter), "oriented" could (should ?) always be used.
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"Invite" employed as a noun.
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My pet peeve is the increasing use of "orientated"
Perhaps people use orientated because oriented might seem more like Oriented, suggesting something to do with the Orient.
"Invite" employed as a noun.
Well, you won't be receiving an invite to the Nouning Verbs Society's annual ball.
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3410,
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.
Yeah, you got me. -
Well, you won't be receiving an invite to the Nouning Verbs Society's annual ball.
..or from its rival organisation, the Verbing Nouns Association. This year we'll be cocktailing and barneying those Nouning Verbs misguideds.
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