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islander

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Location: West coast somewhere
Gender: Male
Posted: Jul 14, 2026 - 1:41pm
 Proclivities wrote:

I had no idea she was so busy.


Can you just claim that?  Doesn't there need to be an election, or at least an ordination or something??
Proclivities

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male
Posted: Jul 14, 2026 - 1:34pm
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 that is amazing.

I had no idea she was so busy.
ScottFromWyoming

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Location: Powell
Gender: Male
Posted: Jul 14, 2026 - 1:27pm
 Proclivities wrote:

An good example of why one should use the Oxford comma:





 that is amazing. 
Proclivities

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male
Posted: Jul 14, 2026 - 1:11pm
An good example of why one should use the Oxford comma:
Red_Dragon

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Location: Gilead
Posted: Nov 13, 2022 - 6:38am
6 killed after vintage aircraft collide at Dallas air show
kbs

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Location: UK
Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 10:35am
 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

In my defense... I'm not even a speller.
I are constukton werkeer.

The Engineering club T-shirt at Uni read 'Munce ago I cudent even spel injenier, but now I are wun!'
In a slightly more interesting vein the Riding Society's read 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and spurs excite me!'
MathSoc had 'Hyperbolics, parabolics and all other types of ....'
kbs

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Location: UK
Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 10:31am
 Proclivities wrote:

Yeah, the "after" makes it sort of unclear; how much "after" - an hour, a day?  


Our local news always, but always, puts 'as' in the clickbait headline, so 'Ambulance attends as fight breaks out' which similarly implies that arrival of the service/police/whatever made it all kick off!
sunybuny

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Location: The West & Best Coast of FLA
Gender: Female
Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 7:05am
 Red_Dragon wrote:

local news byline...

"County commissioner Brian Maughan said they’ve dealt with fraud cases in the past, but nothing to this caliber."





So what caliber were they? .38? .44?
Red_Dragon

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Location: Gilead
Posted: Sep 21, 2022 - 5:33am
"OHP: 14-year-old girl trying to catch dog killed after being hit by SUV on Dibble highway"
Red_Dragon

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Location: Gilead
Posted: Sep 13, 2022 - 5:06pm
local news byline...

"County commissioner Brian Maughan said they’ve dealt with fraud cases in the past, but nothing to this caliber."
Steely_D

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Location: At the dude ranch / above the sea
Gender: Male
Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:58am
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


And why kill a crossing guard hero?


Oh, THEY knew what they'd done.
Red_Dragon

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Location: Gilead
Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:49am
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


And why kill a crossing guard hero?


right?
ScottFromWyoming

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Location: Powell
Gender: Male
Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:49am
 Proclivities wrote:

Yeah, the "after" makes it sort of unclear; how much "after" - an hour, a day?  


And why kill a crossing guard hero?
Proclivities

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male
Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:46am
 Red_Dragon wrote:

I see many headlines like this; particularly in local news:

Crossing guard killed after saving kids from speeding car

The tense bothers me. This reads as if he was killed after saving the kids. Wouldn't it be more correct to say:

Crossing guard killed saving kids from speeding car?


Yeah, the "after" makes it sort of unclear; how much "after" - an hour, a day?  
Red_Dragon

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Location: Gilead
Posted: Sep 10, 2022 - 8:21am
I see many headlines like this; particularly in local news:

Crossing guard killed after saving kids from speeding car

The tense bothers me. This reads as if he was killed after saving the kids. Wouldn't it be more correct to say:

Crossing guard killed saving kids from speeding car?
Proclivities

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male
Posted: Aug 4, 2021 - 1:10pm
...In some instances, the term “gyre” is used to refer to the collections of plastic waste and other debris found in higher concentrations in certain parts of the ocean. While this use of "gyre" is increasingly common, the term traditionally refers simply to large, rotating ocean currents.
KurtfromLaQuinta

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Location: Really deep in the heart of South California
Gender: Male
Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 12:48pm
 oldviolin wrote:

raises hand...

But in my on defense, I'm not a writer. I'm sure that's not the point though...
{#Good-vibes}

In my defense... I'm not even a speller.
I are constukton werkeer.
oldviolin

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Location: esse quam videri
Gender: Male
Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 11:07am
 Proclivities wrote:
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Fair point but her bad examples are so extreme that no one can see themselves as guilty.


Yeah, I wish she'd given more of the sort of examples that many of us have to see or hear all the time - awful corporate terms like monetize, synergize, ideate, actionable, leverage (as a verb),  incentivize, etc...

 
My favorite is The Mission Statement in which they do all of the above...
Proclivities

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male
Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 10:48am
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Fair point but her bad examples are so extreme that no one can see themselves as guilty.


Yeah, I wish she'd given more of the sort of examples that many of us have to see or hear all the time - awful corporate terms like monetize, synergize, ideate, actionable, leverage (as a verb),  incentivize, etc...
rhahl

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Posted: Jul 20, 2021 - 9:39am
Made me think of some good writing by Orwell, on empire.
 
"Marrakech”
 
As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud
and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later.
 
https://www.studocu.com/sg/document/singapore-university-of-social-sciences/analysing-prose-short-fiction-and-essays/marrakech-by-geroge-orwell/3654769
 
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