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I would never wait for a doctor for that length of time. When this happens I believe it is because the doctor has scheduled too many patients in the time allotted.
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Well maybe they should take the opportunity to learn something about privilege. Since @Anne has suggested that any discussion about this topic not be continued in this thread, I'd be happy to take it to another thread with anyone who's actually interested in reading my posts and discussing this very poorly understood topic.
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LOL. That would be me! I need 75 cents for the bus & I frequently put pennies in the slot. Last winter it was so embarrassing - I was putting a load of coins in the slot & the bloody thing completely jammed. The bus driver was SO nice about it, but no other passenger could use the slot then. So all the way home to my street he was explaining to everyone that the slot was jammed. I was mortified.
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I'll send them your suggestion.
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I don't drive so please explain the stick shift thing to me.
Do we have a character limit on posts here?I could go on forever. :lol3:
-Poison Ivy
- heat and humidity
- mosquitoes
I'll stop there for now.
Oh my gosh I hate poison ivy! I get it so bad. I had it all over my left arm last month and I still have it clearing up. Got the cortizone shot and medication. Its now leaving scars here and there.
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Both leapt & leaped are perfectly fine.
Someone questioned the use of the ampersand. I love the ampersand key on my iPad & use it frequently. Nothing wrong with this in an email, etc.
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Old glory was asking me about honey, I think. Yes, I do eat honey. I am what is called a pesco-vegetarian since I don't eat meat, but occasionally eat fish. As someone else said vegans don't eat honey. No clue about this, but being a vegan is too draconian for me. Keep in mind that a true vegan does not use anything from an animal for any purpose - shoes, sweaters, etc., etc.
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I see nothing wrong with using " can not" instead of "cannot", especially for emphasis. "Snuck" seems like a fine Mark Twain type of word, but I can't find it in either my OED or Websters.
"Can not" is not general usage, and any style manual will tell you that it is "cannot." Very true, "snuck" is straight out of Mark Twain, and if you want to sound like an ignorant rube, by all means use it. It's not acceptable usage, which is why you can't find it in OED or Websters.
"Leapt" is more of a Bristish usage; "leaped" is more common in America.
Shall we take on "lay" and "lie"?
Maybe auto-correct got you. . .it's pesco-vegetarian. Pesco means fish in Italian (Latin roots), pesto is a basil-based pasta sauce
. Which most vegetarians probably eat a lot of, I suppose. . .:tongue2:I think "leapt" (and most other -pt words) is mainly British English and "leaped" is more American English. Both are correct though.
I can't drive stick but I know this! A manual transmission vehicle will roll back a few inches while you try to get it in gear, if you're stopped on a hill.
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LOL. Definitely meant pesco. Did not catch that.
Leapt is in my Websters.
Leapt is in my Websters.
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Language is always changing, which is a good thing. Whether something is in general use or is not in a style manual is irrelevant. If it sounds good & fits what I want to say, I will use it. Ditto "snuck".
What about lie & lay did you want to discuss?
As I said before "leapt" is in my Websters.
Yes, language is always changing, and we have probably lost the battle on "snuck" and "lay." No one here on TCS says their cat lies down, or is lying in a chair, which is correct usage. Everyone says their cat lays down. "Lay" means to put something somewhere; "lie," other than not telling the truth, means to recline.
Hens lay eggs; cats and people lie down and lie on bed. The confusion comes in in the past tense of "lie," which is "lay." "He lay on the couch."
http://www.chompchomp.com/rules/irregularrules02.htm
Edit: Whether something is in general use or in a style manual is very relevant, unless you choose to sound like an ignoramus.
Hens lay eggs; cats and people lie down and lie on bed. The confusion comes in in the past tense of "lie," which is "lay." "He lay on the couch."
http://www.chompchomp.com/rules/irregularrules02.htm
Edit: Whether something is in general use or in a style manual is very relevant, unless you choose to sound like an ignoramus.
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Guess we're all just "ignorant rubes". :lol3:
Could they technically both do you justice in the form of lie down? Lay (to put something some where) as in to put yourself on the bed, therefore you layed down on the bed? [emoji]129300[/emoji]
That's definitely annoyingAnd sometimes if it's a phone call, the person will answer and say "I'm busy so I'll call you back" or something like that. Really??? If you're busy, why even bother to answer the phone in the first place?? Just let the call go to voicemail and deal with it later.
I have a friend who does that. Instead of answering with Hello, she says " I can't talk now. Bye ". I asked her ( it had to be in person since she hangs up too fast on the phone ), " Why do you
answer at times when you can't talk?" She said because it might be someone with an emergency. How in the world would answering and immediately hanging up let her know that? Very strange
No, because we don't put ourselves on the bed. We say " I'm going to lie down in bed ", not " put myself on the bed." Someone else can lay us on the bed if they pick us up.
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More of a smart alec question but thank you. :lol3:
This is interesting, I find one possible way of how one could put him/herself to bed, it is if one considers being a mind and he/she puts the body to bed.
However that brings up interesting question, are we just minds imprisoned in our bodies or are we mind and the body, which of course leads to question where our souls reside and there really is no answer for that, just more or less random guesses.
So there might not be possible truth in this, but several open ended possibilities.
Either way, I find such though patterns interesting/fascinating.
My peevees, When others try to force what opinion/choices one has to have and when others think they know better what I'm thinking, I'm not limited to one opinion or viewpoint, whatever opinion I state is only one of many.
Something like this might be a simplified example, Cat likes tuna, so cat will not be able to think beef because cat likes tuna. As anyone knows that can't be true, put tuna and beef next to each other and cat will analyze and sample both.
So some think that if I say I don't like pink, that I must hate pink, no that is not what I said, I say I don't like pink, certainly I don't hate it and for certain there are places and situations where pink is appropriate color, I like pink in such, so what is this crazy idea some people get that there is only black and white?
This includes even some 'news' media puts out, where they write article from very defined point of view which is aimed to shape public opinion. Very much ignoring the neutral point of view and letting reader to choose his/her take on the matter.
Another peevee being Following of tradition in sake of tradition, how some fear to step out from rails as we always have been on rails and refusing to accept wider/more creative view to world.
Of course I know there are differently thinking people, for some world is organized maze with walls that keep it together, but problem is I'm kind of person that finds solutions that are out of the box, for example mazes in children's books I started from center working towards outer edge, real life maze on one theme park I solved by climbing on the wall. For some such is the horror, that one is not following the defined path, for me it is the horror one does not seek most optimal solution and gets limited by walls, so I do understand this is more of my own issue than it is peevee caused by others, yet still it is one of my peevees and one of the burden which comes with creative mind.
Mostly I see peevees as a room to improve self and grow as a person, I'm in a way disappointed to myself when I find something becoming my peevee and I do try to overcome it by trying to see multiple angles to matter, but some do stick.
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