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Comment on = by Barney

Barney — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:01:24 +0000

3 shirts + 4 skirts is not the same as 5 shirts + 2 skirts.

That doesn’t mean that 3+4 is not the same as 5 + 7

If someone asks for 3 shirts, and someone else asks for 4 shirts, but all you’ve got in stock is a pack of 5 shirts and two shirts from an open pack, that’s all the shirts you need, because fetching (3 + 4) shirts is the same as fetching (5 + 2) shirts.

Comment on Nice of them to show up by Showed up « Arnold Zwicky’s Blog

Showed up « Arnold Zwicky’s Blog — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:16:59 +0000

[...] … Oh dear. Could The Times be running their headlines through some naff commercially available grammar checker? (link) [...]

Comment on Back to front by Cecily

Cecily — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:55:12 +0000

An equally bad BBC headline a couple of days ago was “Schoolgirl rapist shot in attack”:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7973598.stm

A “schoolgirl chess champion” would be a schoolgirl who was a chess champion, but of course in this instance, the schoolgirl was, sadly, the victim.

Comment on HIMPRTU! by TootsNYC

TootsNYC — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:48:23 +0000

Is that SERIF type on that Scrabble set?

Or maybe a thick/thin sans serif (like Optima)?
http://www.identifont.com/similar?T9

Comment on Lellow and Elsh by TootsNYC

TootsNYC — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:45:46 +0000

You wrote: “(We’re certainly not going to force her out of it.)”

My son, at about age 4, put on his “jamamas” to go to bed.

I nearly clocked DH when he corrected him. They grow out of those things so fast.

(Some stick, though–my entire family still calls them “underbrellas,” the way my sister did)

Comment on HIMPRTU! by WTG « running (slowly) in forests (mainly)

WTG « running (slowly) in forests (mainly) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:37:31 +0000

[...] Although it was a shame I wasn’t there to cheer them on, I did win my section at a local Scrabble tournament! [...]

Comment on Coventry Scrabbleathon by HIMPRTU! « Dadge

HIMPRTU! « Dadge — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:34:25 +0000

[...] I visited the UK Open in Coventry I noticed there was a small local Scrabble tournament coming up so i decided to enter. [...]

Comment on Das ist Frau Ehlers. Frau Ehlers steht vor dem Herd. (1) by strangemaps

strangemaps — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:46:32 +0000

Hilarious. This reminds me of something I once read about Eugène Ionesco. He is supposed to have found the inspiration for writing his absurdist plays by coming across similar language instruction manuals. Somebody should turn the idea on its head, and make *intentionally* absurd Assimil books…

Comment on “French speakers make mistakes” shock by More on French gender trouble « Dadge

More on French gender trouble « Dadge — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:35:11 +0000

[...] on French gender trouble Recently I was surprised by the shock some people were professing that French people might have some… The other day I found a copy of Mauger’s “Grammaire pratique du francais [...]

Comment on “French speakers make mistakes” shock by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:41:05 +0000

I agree with Chris’s comment. I think critiques of Ayoun’s study are only valid when based on the actual work rather than a blogged retelling of the paper. I attended Ayoun’s talk, and it seemed rigorous and well researched to me. Heidi’s retelling is pretty accurate, but it goes without saying that it is not the original work and leaves out many details.