Originally posted by: Brutuskend
How ironic. Don't you mean "Most people don't study their English?
No, he didint.
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"Some new projects are coming down the pipe." is the right way. Pike is something you stab people with. Ever heard "What's coming down the pipeline these days?" - there is no pikeline!
Different strokes....
A pike is also a road and I am familiar with the saying as "down the pike" meaning down the road, coming up in the future, coming at us. "Some new projects are coming down the pike." I've never heard "coming down the pipe."
Different strokes....
A pike is also a road and I am familiar with the saying as "down the pike" meaning down the road, coming up in the future, coming at us. "Some new projects are coming down the pike." I've never heard "coming down the pipe."
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Yes. but this term was around LONG before the phrase Pipeline started being used in it's current form.
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Caring is an act, the absense of caring (i.e. being unable to care any less) entails no effort whatsoever. Therefore, if you could care less about something, then you are, in fact, expending at least some effort and time on whatever this aforementioned something is, whereas if you couldn't care less you are not caring at all and are thereby expending no effort or time on it.
ZV
Originally posted by: Skoorb
This person says it's pike, but I still maintain that pipe makes just as much sense, so I guess it is personal preference!Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Yes. but this term was around LONG before the phrase Pipeline started being used in it's [sic
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
pike3
PRONUNCIATION: pk
NOUN: 1. A turnpike. 2a. A tollgate on a turnpike. b. A toll paid.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: piked, pik·ing, pikes
To move quickly.
IDIOM: come down the pike Slang To come into prominence: ?a policy . . . allowing for little flexibility if an important new singer comes down the pike? (Christian Science Monitor).
ETYMOLOGY: Short for turnpike.
When someone says they want to flush out an idea.
Or the opposite, when they say they want to flesh out all of the bugs.
Or the opposite, when they say they want to flesh out all of the bugs.
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As if Americans know about EnglishOriginally posted by: Brutuskend
Originally posted by: Skoorb
This person says it's pike, but I still maintain that pipe makes just as much sense, so I guess it is personal preference!Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Yes. but this term was around LONG before the phrase Pipeline started being used in it's [sic
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
pike3
PRONUNCIATION: pk
NOUN: 1. A turnpike. 2a. A tollgate on a turnpike. b. A toll paid.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: piked, pik·ing, pikes
To move quickly.
IDIOM: come down the pike Slang To come into prominence: ?a policy . . . allowing for little flexibility if an important new singer comes down the pike? (Christian Science Monitor).
ETYMOLOGY: Short for turnpike.
They don't even buy things with cheques or have favourite colours! No honour in their use of the language. Sheesh, you people.. You're priorities are out of whack, your getting mad at the dumbest things. Do people who write at a second grade level really mean less? If you can understand what their saying, then there point is getting across. I don't see the point in going they're. To many people can't spell for you too make a big deal of it, two the point of a post like this, even.
It's a minor thing for me, they're not really doing it on purpose. ppl dat talk lyke dis, wif lotsa u's and ur's, on the other hand, are doing it on purpose and should be shot, imesho.
It's a minor thing for me, they're not really doing it on purpose. ppl dat talk lyke dis, wif lotsa u's and ur's, on the other hand, are doing it on purpose and should be shot, imesho.
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Zenmervolt
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We're not "mad" per-se, but there is definitely something rather less than "right" that is triggered by persons who do not understand what should be very basic elements of the English language and of logic. The "to/too/two" and the "there/their/they're" differences are covered in elementary school. Anyone over the age of 13 who has a normal mental capacity and problems with these should be embarassed. As for phrases like "for all intents and purposes", basic logic comes into play. The phrase "for all intensive purposes" makes absolutely no logical sense, nor does the word "irregardless". It's absolutely ludicrous that "irregardless" has made it into many recent dictionary printings and even more ludicrous that, despite carrying the negating prefix "ir-", it is listed as a synonym for "regardless".
ZV
ZV
Originally posted by: Skoorb
As if Americans know about EnglishOriginally posted by: Brutuskend
Originally posted by: Skoorb
This person says it's pike, but I still maintain that pipe makes just as much sense, so I guess it is personal preference!Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Yes. but this term was around LONG before the phrase Pipeline started being used in it's [sic
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
pike3
PRONUNCIATION: pk
NOUN: 1. A turnpike. 2a. A tollgate on a turnpike. b. A toll paid.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: piked, pik·ing, pikes
To move quickly.
IDIOM: come down the pike Slang To come into prominence: ?a policy . . . allowing for little flexibility if an important new singer comes down the pike? (Christian Science Monitor).
ETYMOLOGY: Short for turnpike.
You's guys spell things funay!
Originally posted by: Amused
Whoops, I posted too soon.Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Shut up, moron, everyone knows it's a mute point.
Don't worry about it, ShotgunSteve posted without reading the thread either
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