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These last few messages have left me feeling shattered.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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You've been framed!Originally posted by LMcD View Post
(Time to get my coat and bid all goodnight!)Comment
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Dash it?
This from the AOL UK news service this morning:
Baroness Dido Harding, who is interim executive chair of the National Institute for Health Protection – and oversees the NHS Test and Trace system, is due to give evidence to the Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Am I alone in feeling the dash after protection is a) unnecessary, and b) plain wrong? Two dashes is one way to make a paranthesis, one dash can be useful for a big jump in the direction of a sentence. No good reason here!I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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Surely there should be two dashes or none, although the former could perhaps imply that she's got too much on her plate.Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostComment
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Yes: plain wrong.Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
If some sort of separation of roles is required, which they might have thought that the dash implied, they could have written:
... Harding, who is interim executive chair of the National Institute for Health Protection, and who also oversees the NHS Test and Trace system, is due to give ...Comment
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Confusion in the dash for testing, perhaps, and the need to be punctual - a comma might have served better!Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostComment
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Dashing causes typos or plain bad spelling.Comment
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What are the chances of anything Dido says satisfying Andy Burnham?Comment
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Money laundering in this country is becoming "vanishingly difficult to investigate" [quote on BBC News]. Does that mean it's getting easier?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Do you mean the laundering or the investigation?Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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Money laundering therefore easier because vanishingly difficult to investigateOriginally posted by cloughie View Post
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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More pertinently, perhaps, does she possibly think that the wrongs she has done may create no trouble?Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Of course, we don't yet know her fate.
When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.Comment
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Polly Toynbee in today's Guardian:
Scientists are not gods, nor robots.
Surely better as
Scientists are neither gods nor robots
Scientists are not gods; nor are they robots
or
Scientists are not gods or robots
Her 'nor' looks (and sounds) odd to me.
It might almost give the impression that robots aren't gods either.Comment
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