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Post by spinno on Mar 28, 2023 21:44:49 GMT
First of all I want to add a gripe. When people say something is "____ times less than ____" rather than describe as a fraction.
I'll add a gripe, too:-
The commonplace use of the word issue, where once we would have used the word problem. Was there an issue problem with the word problem? I'm not sure that it's my problem dealing with the issues of this problem |
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Post by peterba on Mar 28, 2023 21:53:49 GMT
I'll add a gripe, too:-
The commonplace use of the word issue, where once we would have used the word problem. Was there an issue problem with the word problem? I'm not sure that it's my problem dealing with the issues of this problem Now my head's spinn[o]ing!  |
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Post by willien on Mar 28, 2023 22:30:49 GMT
First of all I want to add a gripe. When people say something is "____ times less than ____" rather than describe as a fraction.
I'll add a gripe, too:-
The commonplace use of the word issue, where once we would have used the word problem. Was there an issue problem with the word problem? Where I used to work we stopped having Risk Managers and started having Business Unit Control Function. I spent a day and a half getting jail yard stares from a very senior (and very large) manager until I assume some one explained to him that I had not in fact referred to a colleague as a BUFC! Nobody ever said very senior managers had to be very bright or up to date.
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Post by Kath on Mar 29, 2023 9:07:34 GMT
First of all I want to add a gripe. When people say something is "____ times less than ____" rather than describe as a fraction.
I'll add a gripe, too:-
The commonplace use of the word issue, where once we would have used the word problem. Was there an issue problem with the word problem? There's no problem with the word problem but the problem with only using the word problem when someone has a problem is that the word problem starts to sound funny the more you type it out. So we have synonyms. |
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Post by peterba on Mar 29, 2023 9:18:53 GMT
There's no problem with the word problem but the problem with only using the word problem when someone has a problem is that the word problem starts to sound funny the more you type it out. So we have synonyms.
True! In addition to which, it's better to avoid repeatedly articulating the word issue, since it eventually begins to sound like nothing more than a slightly silly *noise..... (ishoo). 
*which is, let's face it, true of ALL words!
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Post by Kath on Mar 29, 2023 15:59:05 GMT
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Post by peterba on Mar 29, 2023 16:12:18 GMT
Talking of terrible spelling:
I'm guessing that French wasn't one of her stronger subjects. |
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Post by JohnY on Mar 29, 2023 16:54:27 GMT
She's from Helensburgh. That's in Scotland not France. Her spelling is impeccable Scots.
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Post by Chester PB on Mar 29, 2023 22:22:49 GMT
I had no expectation that the author's abysmal use if English might have improved by the time he wrote his second novel. I decided that life really is too short to waste time confirming this. It was a recent novel, so at the very least basic 'spell checking' software could have been used to eliminate some of the errors. When did publishers abandon the use of proof readers? At the time of me writing this there's a typo in your message. Want to fix it? 'If' should be 'of', but fortunately I am not expecting anybody to pay for the privilege of reading it. I'm always pleased accept comments from a proof reader, and to correct errors when it's possible to do so. |
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Post by zou on Mar 30, 2023 4:52:28 GMT
At the time of me writing this there's a typo in your message. Want to fix it? 'If' should be 'of', but fortunately I am not expecting anybody to pay for the privilege of reading it. I'm always pleased accept comments from a proof reader, and to correct errors when it's possible to do so. Glad to hear that because there's a missing conjunction in the post I've just quoted. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 30, 2023 7:52:46 GMT
'If' should be 'of', but fortunately I am not expecting anybody to pay for the privilege of reading it. I'm always pleased accept comments from a proof reader, and to correct errors when it's possible to do so. Glad to hear that because there's a missing conjunction in the post I've just quoted. I had conjunctionitis once...Lots of red marks on my English exam paper... |
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Post by Chester PB on Mar 30, 2023 20:10:15 GMT
'If' should be 'of', but fortunately I am not expecting anybody to pay for the privilege of reading it. I'm always pleased accept comments from a proof reader, and to correct errors when it's possible to do so. Glad to hear that because there's a missing conjunction in the post I've just quoted. Just testing - obviously 'to' is intentionally absent between 'pleased' and 'accept'. |
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Post by zou on Mar 30, 2023 20:20:42 GMT
Glad to hear that because there's a missing conjunction in the post I've just quoted. Just testing - obviously 'to' is intentionally absent between 'pleased' and 'accept'. Obviously. It's years since I last properly proof read. I've done it numerous times for my dad but in 2006 turned down a job as a publishing house proof reader. Can't begin to imagine how dull I would have been if I had accepted that job. |
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Post by willien on Mar 30, 2023 21:41:35 GMT
Just testing - obviously 'to' is intentionally absent between 'pleased' and 'accept'. Obviously. It's years since I last properly proof read. I've done it numerous times for my dad but in 2006 turned down a job as a publishing house proof reader. Can't begin to imagine how dull I would have been if I had accepted that job. Lou Reed worked as a typist in his dad's law firm. Yeah, just think what you might have achieved.
Kidding dude. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 30, 2023 21:46:35 GMT
Obviously. It's years since I last properly proof read. I've done it numerous times for my dad but in 2006 turned down a job as a publishing house proof reader. Can't begin to imagine how dull I would have been if I had accepted that job. Lou Reed worked as a typist in his dad's law firm. Yeah, just think what you might have achieved.
Kidding dude. Oh what a perfect day |
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problem with the word problem?
