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mattc

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #400 on: 11 August, 2009, 11:54:47 am »
I have Dilbert for this stuff - I don't need YACF doing it too!
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #401 on: 11 August, 2009, 11:57:10 am »
Have your people ping my people.  ;)


Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #402 on: 11 August, 2009, 11:57:39 am »
Well, now you have double bubble and it's a win win situation  :demon:

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #403 on: 11 August, 2009, 12:15:54 pm »
Ping me when you get this and we'll touch base an strategize.

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #404 on: 11 August, 2009, 12:33:13 pm »
<pouring petrol on already flaming waters>

Seeing as we've plunged past the shallow waters of mere bad grammar into the foetid ooze at the bottom of the business bullshit barrel...  :sick:

Obligatory disclaimer:
I can't claim the credit for this, and I am certainly not claiming any responsibility for blunt force trauma received as a result of executing the following liguistics matrix strategy whilst in dialogue with your colleagues.  :demon:

</pouring petrol on already flaming waters>

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1st digit
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1   Total
2   Systemised
3   Parallel
4   Functional
5   Responsive
6   Optional
7   Synchronised
8   Compatible
9   Balanced
A   Automatic
B   Scalable
C   Intuitive
D   Modular
E   Professional
F   Interactive


2nd digit
0   Management
1   Organisational
2   Monitoring
3   Reciprocal
4   Digital
5   Logistical
6   Transitional
7   Incremental
8   Third-generation
9   Policy
A   Tactile
B   Pre-processing
C   Hyperbolic
D   Re-entrant
E   Boolean
F   Recursive


3rd digit
0   Options
1   Flexibility
2   Capability
3   Mobility
4   Programming
5   Concept
6   Welfare
7   Projection
8   Hardware
9   Contingency
A   Feedback
B   Architecture
C   Logic
D   Process
E   Debugging
F   Effectiveness


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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #405 on: 11 August, 2009, 12:39:54 pm »
Could we interlock brain spaces in my work area?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #406 on: 11 August, 2009, 12:42:32 pm »
put in some f2f time?

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #407 on: 11 August, 2009, 12:54:07 pm »
Could we interlock brain spaces in my work area?

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #408 on: 11 August, 2009, 01:21:48 pm »
So, Reg, I'm sensing some pushback. Can we sync-up offline to engage around the ten-thousand foot view?

If you all don't stop it, I shall use Google to google 'Google' and break the interweb...
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #409 on: 11 August, 2009, 01:59:52 pm »
Tautologies definitely count.

"Planning ahead" makes me twitch.

When people refer to "ATM machines", I get all stabby.
So "The Algarve" is a no-no, then. ;)
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #410 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:04:25 pm »
What about the River Ouseburn, or Pendle Hill, which are doubly tautological?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #411 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:06:41 pm »
What about the River Ouseburn, or Pendle Hill, which are doubly tautological?

Or Mount Fuji... or the River Ouse, or Lake Tanganyika?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #412 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:07:10 pm »
But he makes an important point. Not all neologisms are necessarily A Bad Thing. Many of the complaints in this thread just sound reactionary for the sake of it.

d.
Bah. What's wrong with proto-Indo-European?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #413 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:09:32 pm »
What about the River Ouseburn, or Pendle Hill, which are doubly tautological?

Only one tautology each, I'm afraid.

Interestingly, all these words derive from the one for 'river':

Ouse
Aire
Wharfe
and, apparently, Stour.

Or Mount Fuji... or the River Ouse, or Lake Tanganyika?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #414 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:16:31 pm »
LCD display
sufficiently adequate
new innovation
in this day and age
Significant milestone
close proximity

Aghhhhhh!!!!!!
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #415 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:26:46 pm »
LCD display
sufficiently adequate
new innovation
in this day and age
Significant milestone
close proximity

Aghhhhhh!!!!!!

"ABS system"
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #416 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:31:54 pm »
http: //yacf.co.uk/forum

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #417 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:32:32 pm »
What about the River Ouseburn, or Pendle Hill, which are doubly tautological?

Or indeed the quadruply tautological Torpenhow Hill

d.
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clarion

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #418 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:33:42 pm »
Very good - didn't know that one, but surely, since you need two to make the tautology, that's an example of a triple?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #419 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:36:17 pm »
LCD display
sufficiently adequate
new innovation
in this day and age
Significant milestone
close proximity

Aghhhhhh!!!!!!

Just to be pedantic, 'close proximity' is not necessarily a tautology.  Although 'proximity' is derived from French and Latin words the word for 'nearest', it may also be used in the sense of a measurement in time and space.  'Close proximity' being something that is close, 'wide proximity' being some which is further away.

I blame the scientists, particularly the astrophysicists, for bastardising the language...  ;)
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #420 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:43:55 pm »
D

And, while it isn't tautology, "Baby-changing room," just doesn't sound right. What would I want to change my baby for? Should it not be a nappy-changing room?

It's not baby-changing room, it's baby changing-room.

I can't read this thread any more. It's worse than Dan Brown.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #421 on: 11 August, 2009, 02:46:51 pm »
D

And, while it isn't tautology, "Baby-changing room," just doesn't sound right. What would I want to change my baby for? Should it not be a nappy-changing room?

It's not baby-changing room, it's baby changing-room.

I can't read this thread any more. It's worse than Dan Brown.

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clarion

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #422 on: 11 August, 2009, 03:13:46 pm »
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #423 on: 11 August, 2009, 04:11:27 pm »
What about the River Ouseburn, or Pendle Hill, which are doubly tautological?

Or Mount Fuji... or the River Ouse, or Lake Tanganyika?
Mount Fuji? Mrs B doesn't think so.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #424 on: 11 August, 2009, 04:50:53 pm »
What about the River Ouseburn, or Pendle Hill, which are doubly tautological?

Or Mount Fuji... or the River Ouse, or Lake Tanganyika?
Mount Fuji? Mrs B doesn't think so.

Sorry - Mount Fujiyama is the tautology.  It means Mount Fuji-mountain...
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