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Disorientated is not a word. I'm also quite weary of everything being "awesome." Ice cream is awesome. That TV show last night was awesome. Getting a "B" on a test is awesome. Look at my awesome new jeans! And isn't my new haircut just awesome?No. No. No. No. No. Not everything is awesome. Some things are nice, some things are funny. Some things are good news. Not everything is awesome!!!!
Quote from: athersgeo on April 09, 2013, 09:28:19 AMQuote from: Mental Magpie on April 09, 2013, 09:21:34 AMQuote from: scotcat60 on April 09, 2013, 09:19:48 AM*snip*"Can I lend your pen?" is incorrect, when what you should really say is "Can I borrow your pen?"There's a difference, though, in the sentence structure."May I borrow your pen?"vs"Will you lend me your pen?"Eh, yes and no. What Scotcat60 is talking about (I think) is the dialect of English that uses the construction "Can I have a lend of" for "Can I borrow" - the teacher wasn't (I don't think) saying lend is never right; just that particular use.(I should note it's not a construction I've ever heard anyone use, but I've seen it in books written in the 1950s [the character was from Hampshire and was described as having a "Hampshire" accent])That's not what scotcat60 wrote, though.scotcat60, will you clarify, please?
Quote from: Mental Magpie on April 09, 2013, 09:21:34 AMQuote from: scotcat60 on April 09, 2013, 09:19:48 AM*snip*"Can I lend your pen?" is incorrect, when what you should really say is "Can I borrow your pen?"There's a difference, though, in the sentence structure."May I borrow your pen?"vs"Will you lend me your pen?"Eh, yes and no. What Scotcat60 is talking about (I think) is the dialect of English that uses the construction "Can I have a lend of" for "Can I borrow" - the teacher wasn't (I don't think) saying lend is never right; just that particular use.(I should note it's not a construction I've ever heard anyone use, but I've seen it in books written in the 1950s [the character was from Hampshire and was described as having a "Hampshire" accent])
Quote from: scotcat60 on April 09, 2013, 09:19:48 AM*snip*"Can I lend your pen?" is incorrect, when what you should really say is "Can I borrow your pen?"There's a difference, though, in the sentence structure."May I borrow your pen?"vs"Will you lend me your pen?"
*snip*"Can I lend your pen?" is incorrect, when what you should really say is "Can I borrow your pen?"
athersgeo, I wasn't trying to copy what scotcat60 wrote, I was just showing how to use both borrow and lend...Let's just start over and wait for scotcat60 to come back with clarification, as it seems we keep confusing each other
Quote from: Mental Magpie on April 09, 2013, 10:34:48 AMathersgeo, I wasn't trying to copy what scotcat60 wrote, I was just showing how to use both borrow and lend...Let's just start over and wait for scotcat60 to come back with clarification, as it seems we keep confusing each other Sounds like a plan *grin*And, just to be vaguely near the topic while we wait (!), another one of my favourite "typos":He put his hands around her waste.vsShe threw out the waist paper.The mind boggles.
Did you hear about the guy who made a belt out of cardboard? It was a waist of paper.
I heard a teacher - a TEACHER - say "Did he borrow it to you?" I was eight years old at the time, and my mouth fell open.
Oh, and I musn't forget another one that makes me stabby. The word is temperature, not tempachur. On the other end of the spectrum is a former friend who always went out of her way to overpronounce words, to the point of being ridiculous. When saying February, the "r" is usually silent. Some people do pronounce it. But ex-friend would always overdo it; FebROOOary. Samething with raspberry...she always overemphasized the "p" to a ridiculous extent (rass-PUH-berry). I asked her once why she did that and her response was something along the lines of her having superior intelligence and some other nonsense. She always did have a superiority complex.
Quote from: athersgeo on April 09, 2013, 04:24:05 AMTwo mispronunciations/misused terms that used to get my father's goat (and that I cannot hear now without hearing the echo of my father's ghost!):Vun-ra-bul instead of Vuln-ra-bulTrain station instead of railway station (he was a railways enthusiast which probably helps explain this particular bee in his bonnet)And a case of a mis-used word (or two):An apostrophe, a double quote, a comma and an exclamation mark all mean vastly different things in most contexts, but when you're writing programming, getting the right one in the right place can be the difference between your code compiling and not. One of my former coworkers used to frequently (but not always) say comma when she meant apostrophe and apostrophe when she meant double quote and then used to get VERY upset if you attempted to clarify which she meant. I got accused of being pedantic more than once because "I OBVIOUSLY knew what she meant" - uh, no, no I didn't; that was why I was asking.I wonder what he would do with me? I pronounce it "VUL-ner-uh-ble".
Two mispronunciations/misused terms that used to get my father's goat (and that I cannot hear now without hearing the echo of my father's ghost!):Vun-ra-bul instead of Vuln-ra-bulTrain station instead of railway station (he was a railways enthusiast which probably helps explain this particular bee in his bonnet)And a case of a mis-used word (or two):An apostrophe, a double quote, a comma and an exclamation mark all mean vastly different things in most contexts, but when you're writing programming, getting the right one in the right place can be the difference between your code compiling and not. One of my former coworkers used to frequently (but not always) say comma when she meant apostrophe and apostrophe when she meant double quote and then used to get VERY upset if you attempted to clarify which she meant. I got accused of being pedantic more than once because "I OBVIOUSLY knew what she meant" - uh, no, no I didn't; that was why I was asking.
