bebês Seis-mês-velhos em anúncios da tevê quem falam o inglês como graduados de Harvard MBA de 35 year-old?
Cães e outros animais que podem falar o inglês também (ou como mal) como sua porta seguinte tipicamente addled do teenager?
(Ou lagartos que que pode dançar?)
Eu veria rather seres humanos' barking do que dogs' o inglês falador, ou os adultos crescidos' “que mewling e que puking” como os infantes melhor que os infantes' que peorating sobre produtos de consumidor. Pelo menos descreveria mais exatamente a condição humana.
Aprovação, eu comecei usado ao uso da palavra soletrada erradamente julgamento em Chef do ferro. Entretanto, está sendo usado agora também sobre Centro de esportes de ESPN.
Eu fiz uma pesquisa pequena do dicionário para ver se julgamento, o misspelling, ganhou o acceptability. A resposta é sim e No. Um dicionário alista a soletração de “e” como uma alternativa, mas vai então sobre ilustrar o uso julgamento citing usar-se dos exemplos da sentença julgamento, a soletração correta. Definiu também julgamento estreita, dig era “o original legal que indica a razão para uma opinião judicial.”
Linha inferiorjulgamento é a única soletração, derivando-se da palavra francesa jugement (que usa um “e,” curiosa).
Ninguém podem sempre acusar os autores de nosso Constitution de ser peritos da gramática. Faça exame da segunda emenda, assunto de governar yesterday da corte suprema. Lê:
“Uma milícia bem-regulada, sendo necessária à segurança de um estado livre, a direita dos povos manter e carregar os braços, não infringed.”
Agora, ignorando o fato que, no 18o século, povoam os substantivos frequentemente capitalized para a ênfase, a sentença tem ainda problemas estruturais. Deve ler, “uma milícia bem-regulada que é necessária….” Sendo é um gerúndio e assim deve ser precedido por um possessivo. Também, a vírgula em seguida Braços separa o assunto do verbo e é um nenhum-nenhum real.
In irony of ironies, considering how poor I am, I woke up this morning and opened the shutters in my living room to see the sun rising from the east and said outloud (yes, I do talk to myself), "The world is my oyster." Of course, it’s not, and actually I said, "The woild is my oyster," mimicking a Mafioso or someone from stereotypical New Jersey/New York.
That got me to look up the origins of the saying, and it is indeed something from The Bard in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Said Pistol to Falstaff therein:
Why, then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
A site called the Drudge Retort, a liberal answer to the Drudge Report, was ordered by the Associated Press (AP) to cease and desist using snippets of AP articles in its own articles this past week.
Drudge II complied, but objected that copyright law permits the "fair use" of copyrighted material, in limited portions, for scholarly and academic purposes.
I doubt I’d consider either Drudge I or Drudge II scholarly or academic, but I defend their right to quote from published sources and comment on them. This is the meaning, to me, of a free press. I do it all the time here and on my other blogs.
Anyway, a spat ensued, and eventually AP backed away from its legal threat and said the organization "needed to rethink" matters.
What really galled AP, from what I can determine from reading between the lines, is that Drudge and other sites were using the quotations as tie-ins to advertising.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is a word formed from three Greek words: paraskevi (Friday,) dekatreis (thirteen) and phobia (fear or phobia), meaning "fear of Friday the 13th." Triskaidekaphobia means just "fear of the number 13."
There you go. Learn something everyday. Happy Friday the 13th!
I came across this site that lists the highest–and lowest–gasoline pump prices in each state and counties, parishes, areas, etc., within that state.
I checked it against my local knowledge, and while it was good, it didn’t list the stations that I know to consistently have the lowest prices. Still, it beats not knowing where to save money.
PS Unless I’m mistaken, look for gas prices to reach $5 a gallon by the Fourth of July, or shortly thereafter. They’ll come down in September or October for the presidential election and then continue their upward march after the new president is elected.
Much was made on the video waves about his earlier confusion of the word numnah with numbnut, but 13-year-old Sameer Mishra finally won the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee with the word guerdon. Watch below:
The politics is bad too, but I’ll leave that aside.
Congress recently passed a piece of legislation known affectionately as NOPEC, which may as well stand for No One Possibly Expects Clarity, but instead is an acronym for The No Oil-Producing and -Exporting Cartels Act." Okay, I added the hypens because no one in Washington, D.C., could possibly understand compound adjectives, let alone writing basic, clear English.
What this act does is allow Congress and its designated henchmen to sue OPEC countries if they feel the latter has been withholding production of oil and thus artificially raising prices through manipulation of supply and demand. Good luck with these lawsuits, but let’s take a look at the enabling language of NOPEC:
"It shall be illegal and a violation of this Act," declared the House of Representatives, "to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product … or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for oil, natural gas or any petroleum product when such action, combination, or collective action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price or distribution of oil, natural gas or other petroleum product in the United States."
As I said, good luck with NOPEC. And good luck with writing clear English. You’ll need it in both cases.
The sports journalists of the world made hay this past week with allegations that USC college basketball phenom O.J. Mayo had been on the take the whole time since high school.
A few days after the story broke, Mayo met with Los Angeles Times reporter Ben Bolch to deny the allegations, saying:
"So for them to say I received $30,000 or whatever the case is, I definitely don’t think that’s enough to sell out myself and my family."
That was in the next-to-last paragraph. Here’s what the last paragraph observed:
"Following the interview, Mayo slipped off into a new red Porsche Cayenne GTS with two friends and drove off."
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