Pedants' Paradise

[french frank]

I guess one and a half cheers for not using the apostrophe.

More like one and a half s

[Pulcinella]

More like one and a half s

You mean one and a half s?

[Serial_Apologist]

You mean one and a half s?

More likely to be one and a half doh nuts!

[oddoneout]

More likely to be one and a half doh nuts!

Oh very good!
It does remind me though that in my family they were duffnuts (due my daughter's struggles with the vagaries of the written and spoken English language) which would cover both Simpson and emoji related options.
As a matter of interest, and way off topic I know, has anyone sampled Duff (as opposed to duff) beer?

[vinteuil]

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... on the current 'advertisements' for Wimbledon broadcast on Radio 3 - 'savour every epic moment'.

I should like to ask the writer, "how can a 'moment' be 'epic'?"

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[smittims]

Point taken. But according to Alan Bennett, 'epic' was a favoured word of Lindsay Anderson, who lamented the lack of this quality in England, and especially English art , cinema and theatre. So I suppose the implication is 'a moment worthy of an epic '.

But the truth is probably, as I'm sure you guesssed ,that the person who wrote that doesn't know what 'epic' means. I often hear this, for instance when people say 'cathartic' when they mean 'therapeutic'.

[vinteuil]

favored

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[smittims]

Touche! That was a typo, not an intentional Americanism.

[vinteuil]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

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[french frank]

But the truth is probably, as I'm sure you guesssed ,that the person who wrote that doesn't know what 'epic' means.

Isn't "Epic" just a new slang use meaning, um, well it's one of those new uses hard to define. It "means" what the user means it to mean. 'An epic moment' seems to be influenced by the popular use. 'Memorable', perhaps? 'Remarkable', 'Noteworthy'?

[Serial_Apologist]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

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Have to admit, that's a new one on me!

[Serial_Apologist]

Isn't "Epic" just a new slang use meaning, um, well it's one of those new uses hard to define. It "means" what the user means it to mean. 'An epic moment' seems to be influenced by the popular use. 'Memorable', perhaps? 'Remarkable', 'Noteworthy'?

... Iconic?

[french frank]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

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"spelling errors in a sent email will be discovered by the sender only during rereading from the "Sent" box. "

[french frank]

... Iconic?

Useful draft addition to the OED for 'icon': " A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol, esp. of a culture or movement; a person, institution, etc., considered worthy of admiration or respect. "

[vinteuil]

"spelling errors in a sent email will be discovered by the sender only during rereading from the "Sent" box. "

... nowadays, if it's a Really Important e-mail, I take the precaution of sending it to myself first - so that I can re-read (either from 'Sent' box or 'In' box). Errorrs still occurr...

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