Pedants' Paradise

[french frank]

But surely the forum has to be irreplac(e)able!

(I am implacable about that).

Which illustrates that in some cases the e is necessary, in others - I presume - optional.

[Serial_Apologist]

Which illustrates that in some cases the e is necessary, in others - I presume - optional.

Didn't we once have this discussion about C having to have E after it to make it a soft C?

[oddoneout]

I was delighted to see the census form in 2021 said of question 18 (I think) only 'this question has been deliberately omitted'
. So why number it?

Later it said that 'children under 12 months need not answer the following questions. ' I kid you not.

Saves having to renumber(and possibly reformat the text, with the potential for things to go awry) everything after that point just because someone has thought better of/does not want to include whatever question was in that place originally?

[oddoneout]

Well, they do say, "In this post, I will compare movable vs. movable" and for the life of me I can't see any difference. Do I have a cognitive problem?

PS I carefully copied and pasted the quote and they still look the same.

If you do, then so do I! Proof reader and writer not in the same camp?

[kernelbogey]

Radio5 Live half an hour ago - 'There is a lot of rain activity today across the country'. I wonder what it will be up to this time?

“I think she’s [wife Melania] going to be very active in the sense of being active,” Trump added.

[LMcD]

According to Ms Alker, today is the anniversary of the date on which a particular Handel Concerto Grosso 'first premiered'.

[vinteuil]

According to Ms Alker, today is the anniversary of the date on which a particular Handel Concerto Grosso 'first premiered'.

... well, it will have had subsequent premieres in Paris, St Petersburg, Buenos Aires &c - so this was its 'first premiere'...

[ note to self - why the f... am I defending Ms Alker?? ]

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[AuntDaisy]

... well, it will have had subsequent premieres in Paris, St Petersburg, Buenos Aires &c - so this was its 'first premiere'...
[ note to self - why the f... am I defending Ms Alker?? ].

You're ever the gentleman, kindly untying her tautological tangle.

[french frank]

... well, it will have had subsequent premieres in Paris, St Petersburg, Buenos Aires &c - so this was its 'first premiere'....

In one sense, every performance could be considered a premiere (city/town, hall, orchestra, conductor, day of the week, month, year, audience, all or some taken together). If you have that sort of mind.

[vinteuil]

In one sense, every performance could be considered a premiere (city/town, hall, orchestra, conductor, day of the week, month, year, audience, all or some taken together). If you have that sort of mind.

... you've been reading Heraclitus again. (I have that sort of mind.)

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[Sir Velo]

Well (or so, in modern parlance) everything is "unique" these days.

[Padraig]

Well (or so, in modern parlance) everything is "unique" these days.

Is nothing sacred?

[french frank]

... you've been reading Heraclitus again.

They told me he was dead. Bitter news, bitter tears.

[vinteuil]

They told me he was dead. Bitter news, bitter tears.

[ wrong Heraclitus, mais passons.. ]

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[french frank]

[ wrong Heraclitus, mais passons.. ]

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But he's also dead.