Pedants' Paradise

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought they were little processed cheese triangles.

As in "gentle cheeses"?

[vinteuil]

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... and on 25 December we celebrate the baby cheeses -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babybel

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[HighlandDougie]

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... and on 25 December we celebrate the baby cheeses -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babybel

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And how could you forget:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vache_qui_rit

I suspect that it makes me a very bad person but I rather like those little cubes wrapped in silver foil with that little red tab to expedite the unwrapping ..... Delicious with Gevrey Chambertin Premier Cru 2005

[vinteuil]

And how could you forget:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vache_qui_rit

I suspect that it makes me a very bad person but I rather like those little cubes wrapped in silver foil with that little red tab to expedite the unwrapping ..... Delicious with Gevrey Chambertin Premier Cru 2005

... I think a white might be preferable - an innocent little meursault perhaps, or a puligny-montrachet?

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[LMcD]

It may have been mentioned previously in this thread, but I can't help being irritated by the use of 'decimated' to mean 'almost completely destroyed or wiped out' against my understanding of it as meaning 'reduced by 10 percent'. If memory serves, this may originally have had something to do with the disciplining of Roman troops.

[Pabmusic]

It may have been mentioned previously in this thread, but I can't help being irritated by the use of 'decimated' to mean 'almost completely destroyed or wiped out' against my understanding of it as meaning 'reduced by 10 percent'. If memory serves, this may originally have had something to do with the disciplining of Roman troops.

This is a very basic error - 'decimated' comes from the punishment of killing every 10th soldier. Nowadays the exact proportion need not be a tenth, but it should not anything near 100% - that is if you want to keep some semblance of the original meaning.

[french frank]

I'm astonished it hasn't always been Land's End. Alpie's been down there kicking up a fuss:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-45499594

[Pulcinella]

On the back of the Pappano Bernstein symphony set:

Sir Antonio Pappano's celebration of Leonard Bernstein's centenary with the performances issued in this set has an especially personal significance for him. Not only does it link the two conductor's [sic] close associations with........

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm astonished it hasn't always been Land's End. Alpie's been down there kicking up a fuss:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-45499594

I blame my Cornish ancestors.

[oddoneout]

I know that the matter of 'you and I' or 'you and me' has come up before but I would welcome thoughts on this example, as I am not convinced. A quiz in the paper based on school test questions from the sixties asks for the correct word from the choice in brackets to complete the sentence "He sent presents to you and(I, me)". The official answer is apparently 'I', which to me is wrong. I was taught to deconstruct the sentence to help decide, which would result in "He sent presents to I" in this example.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I was taught to deconstruct the sentence to help decide, which would result in "He sent presents to I" in this example.

[Bryn]

I know that the matter of 'you and I' or 'you and me' has come up before but I would welcome thoughts on this example, as I am not convinced. A quiz in the paper based on school test questions from the sixties asks for the correct word from the choice in brackets to complete the sentence "He sent presents to you and(I, me)". The official answer is apparently 'I', which to me is wrong. I was taught to deconstruct the sentence to help decide, which would result in "He sent presents to I" in this example.

Quite so. There is even a book by John Cochrane, with an introduction by a certain John Huphrys, with the title, "Betwenn You and I [-] A LITTLE BOOK OF BAD ENGLISH", which is predicated upon this very issue.

[french frank]

IA quiz in the paper based on school test questions from the sixties asks for the correct word from the choice in brackets to complete the sentence "He sent presents to you and(I, me)". The official answer is apparently 'I', which to me is wrong.

Wrong is the new right nowadays; I would suggest that the paper made a mistake. I don't think school tests in the sixties would have got that wrong, since this was commonly the whole point of the question (deconstructing the sentence).

[gurnemanz]

I think confusion can ensue as a result of usage such as: "It's only me." Or: "Who said that?" "Me." Here it is OK to use me as a nominative. Like the French disjunctive pronoun "moi".

[Serial_Apologist]

I think confusion can ensue as a result of usage such as: "It's only me." Or: "Who said that?" "Me." Here it is OK to use me as a nominative. Like the French disjunctive pronoun "moi".

"Mmmmwah", in Made in Chelsea.