For all intensive purposes...

[djheater]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
For all intents and purposes, using the oral transformation "for all intensive purposes" makes you look like a retard, especially when talking to a semi-intelligent audience.

They could of figure it out if they'd thought about it.

 

[amcdonald]

This point is still mute for all in tents and porpoises.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Balt

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt

Originally posted by: Balt
I should of known what this thread was about before clicking on it.

You mean you should have known?

I wouldn't of entered this thread if I couldn't of contributed something that also annoys me.

You stoled mine.

Ah well, it's no skin off my back.

Additionally volumptuous annoys me. A combination of voluminous and voluptuous.

 

[3chordcharlie]

THis fulsome discussion has been entertaining to say the least.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Yeah, "instantly" is synonymous with "immediately".

ZV

An example of the paucity of info in any one dictionary. Many people reading 'instantly' as 'imediately' will only think of it in terms of WHEN:

"When are we going to leave, Willis? Immediately."

Yet 'instantly' does have the older, even archaic meaning related not to WHEN but to duration, HOW LONG: "in an instant", "in a flash". It is so close to the WHEN part of 'immediately' that many cannot see the subtle difference, but it is there:

"The flash happened instantly, some had turned away and never saw it at all."

This is precisely why I want a copy of a properly prescriptive dictionary someday. Thanks much for the information. Shame that the OED is so bloody expensive.

ZV

Yeah, though even the OED is not the be all and end all. I got a promo version for joining a book club back in the '70's. The pages were reduced to four to a page, and the whole thing was contained in two largish tomes, complete with a magnifying glass.

The word 'empathy' was not in there!:shocked:

I eventually gave it to a friend who had long lusted after it during a move.

No one dictionary, even the OED, is going to have it all.

I would take a standard dictionary over a promotional version of the OED. I want the full twenty volume set, or nothing at all.

The shorter OED is available at a reasonable price and I can assure you it includes emapthy. The difference is that arcahic words have been removed. If I can find a description I'll put it in. {{currently saving for the Encyclopedia Brittanica set}}

~~edit

IIRC it removes words that have not been in common use since 1700 Check the Amazon link

IMO completely worth it for the price, at least until you save up for the full set, if that's your goal.

 

[Thegonagle]

Oldie, but goodie.

• Eye halve a spelling chequer
  It came with my pea sea
  It plainly marques four my revue
  Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
  
  Eye strike a key and type a word
  And weight four it two say
  Weather eye am wrong oar write
  It shows me strait a weigh.
  
  As soon as a mist ache is maid
  It nose bee fore two long
  And eye can put the error rite
  Its rare lea ever wrong.
  
  Eye have run this poem threw it
  I am shore your pleased two no
  Its letter perfect awl the weigh
  My chequer tolled me sew.
  --Original author unknown

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Thegonagle
Oldie, but goodie.

• Eye halve a spelling chequer
  It came with my pea sea
  It plainly marques four my revue
  Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
  
  Eye strike a key and type a word
  And weight four it two say
  Weather eye am wrong oar write
  It shows me strait a weigh.
  
  As soon as a mist ache is maid
  It nose bee fore two long
  And eye can put the error rite
  Its rare lea ever wrong.
  
  Eye have run this poem threw it
  I am shore your pleased two no
  Its letter perfect awl the weigh
  My chequer tolled me sew.
  --Original author unknown

Nice sig. for that post.

 

[Thraxen]

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.

OMG, spare me the drama. Most people makes those mistakes on accident and actually do know the correct way to use those words. Some of you need to untwist your panties.

 

[wfbberzerker]

i don't know what your all talking about, it is intensive porpoises.

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle

Originally posted by: loki8481
it's a moo point.

You mean it's a mute point?

Oooooooh. I was going to add this one. I hear "mute point" more often than "moot point".

That's very unique. [pet peeve alert: a singularity can't be very singular.]
----

Dang. Someone beat me to "unique" as well.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Thraxen

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.

OMG, spare me the drama. Most people makes those mistakes on accident and actually do know the correct way to use those words. Some of you need to untwist your panties.

I don't think reviewing what you have written, even be it in an informal capacity, should be considered neurotic. It's simply a desire to be understood clearly. I'm guilty of spelling and punctuation mistakes myself, but not nearly what one may see in, I would be willing to say, the majority of forum posts on the Internet.

~edit

I misspelled written

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: loki8481
it's a moo point.

/joey

It really bugs me when I hear people say "it's a mute point." Dumbasses. :roll: Come on! Anyone with a high school diploma should know the difference between mute and moot! They is ignant.

Edit-Oops, I just read through page 2 of the replies.

 

[3chordcharlie]

on accident

Sorry... I had to.

 

[Kyteland]

Yes, don't make any of these mistakes:

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html

 

[conjur]

Eats, Shoots & Leaves should be required reading for everyone.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
up, because I think some people need it

You're, what, the 14th person to jump in my s%$# for this? Yeah, I didn't get the point when the first 13 people got all upset and frothy, so I needed this thread bumped to understand. Bravo. *claps sarcastically*

"Intensive" doesn't seem as logical as "intents and", true, but I long ago gave up on understanding the logic of certain expressions. Like, "the bee's knees". Or, "Bob's your uncle." Or, "heavens to Betsy." Languages tend to produce strange things. Ebonics, for example.

I think we're all in agreeance that this can be dropped.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
up, because I think some people need it

You're, what, the 14th person to jump in my s%$# for this? Yeah, I didn't get the point when the first 13 people got all upset and frothy, so I needed this thread bumped to understand. Bravo. *claps sarcastically*

"Intensive" doesn't seem as logical as "intents and", true, but I long ago gave up on understanding the logic of certain expressions. Like, "the bee's knees". Or, "Bob's your uncle." Or, "heavens to Betsy." Languages tend to produce strange things. Ebonics, for example.

I think we're all in agreeance that this can be dropped.

1 entry found for agreeance.
Main Entry: agreeance
Function: noun
Definition: the act of agreeing
Example: Usage of the site constitutes agreeance with these terms.
Usage: considered obsolete and a bastardization of 'agreement'

bwahahaha

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt

1 entry found for agreeance.
Main Entry: agreeance
Function: noun
Definition: the act of agreeing
Example: Usage of the site constitutes agreeance with these terms.
Usage: considered obsolete and a bastardization of 'agreement'

bwahahaha

Apparantly you didn't notice the "" at the end of that.

 

[AreaCode707]

I can tell that you're all at the beckon call of the OP. (Beck AND call!!)

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
up, because I think some people need it

Grrrrr... I hated the thread title the first time..... why'd you bump it?

 

[Ninjja]

wow, I came across one that I hate yesterday evening. I don't like it when people say "one foul swoop" instead of "one fell swoop".

I also don't like it when people say "conversate" instead of "converse".

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
up, because I think some people need it

Grrrrr... I hated the thread title the first time..... why'd you bump it?

Because my sole purpose in life is to alienate pizza physicians.