"cultural imperialism"?
Au contraire, cobber. I deliberately avoided my first choice OED to avoid
precisely that charge.
Piers
PS Cultural pedant? Aye, mebbe, but since I can't contribute to discussions
of the chemistry of sugars, KKs, SUVs or radionucleides, can't you forgive
me jumping on the one thing I can contribute? Ah g'wan, yer will, yer will.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of andrew fildes
Sent: 29 November 2003 21:38
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OT] Words and their meanings was Re: [OM] Re: OT now Coke,
mutating to chemistry and etc...
NOTE:
List is international - 'high school dropout/drop-out' is local usage. Slang
too so spell it as you wish.
You are engaging in cultural imperialism. This will be met with extreme
irony unless you cease and desist immediately.
AndrewF
>And you, Lama, might check your dictionary, before any post implying
>others have an imperfect grasp of their grammar...
>'cos "grammar", I submit, it ain't. "Syntax" maybe, "orthography" more
>likely!
>
>American Heritage Dictionary:
>
>Grammar - The study of how words and their component parts combine to
>form sentences.
>The study of structural relationships in language or in a language,
>sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.
>
>Syntax - the study of the rules whereby words or other elements of
>sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
>
>Orthography - The art or study of correct spelling according to
>established usage
>
>Now don't assume I'm coming out of the woodwork claiming superior
>knowledge like this, I know that totally cracks you up. I'm just
>trying to suggest there are other topics for discourse not involving
>Cola recipes, whether honey tastes the same as molasses, and how far up
>the Richter scale a Beetle door reaches (have you noticed how in the
>two-light rear window model the right hand glass has a yellow tint?).
>
>;-)
>
>Piers
>
>PS the MS reference facility won't help any of us here, it gives "grammar"
>as the meaning of "syntax". Oh dear.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu
>Sent: 29 November 2003 04:44
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT now Coke, mutating to chemistry and etc...
>
>--snip
>"dropout". [It's one word, Gregg! :) You must check your grammar for
>any post implying others are stupid! The spell checker won't help you
>here. -5 points]
>
>--snip
>
>
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