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I mourn the passing.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:15 pm
by @meric@nwom@n
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:46 pm
by Gob
On Aug. 6, the very first word of an article in the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal was "Alot," which the newspaper employed to estimate the number of Winston-Salemites who would be vacationing that month.
The Lewiston (Maine) Sun-Journal has written of "spading and neutering." The Miami Herald reported on someone who "eeks out a living" -- alas, not by running an amusement-park haunted house. The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star described professional football as a "doggy dog world." The Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald and the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune were the two most recent papers, out of dozens, to report on the treatment of "prostrate cancer."
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:12 am
by Lord Jim
I mourn the passing.
Shouldn't that be "morn the passing"?
I'll tell you a word that's starting to get on my nerves...
"Transformative".....
"It was a transformative event", "it has a transformative message", "I really found it to be a transformative experience", etc.....
The only thing that's "transformative" is a shape shifter....
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:32 pm
by loCAtek
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:20 pm
by @meric@nwom@n
Lord Jim wrote:I mourn the passing.
Shouldn't that be "morn the passing"?
I'll tell you a word that's starting to get on my nerves...
"Transformative".....
"It was a transformative event", "it has a transformative message", "I really found it to be a transformative experience", etc.....
The only thing that's "transformative" is a shape shifter....
mourn/môrn/Verb
1. Feel or show deep sorrow or regret for (someone or their death), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes.
2. Feel regret or sadness about (the loss or disappearance of something).
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:45 pm
by Crackpot
You forget LJ shes humor impaired.
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:20 pm
by @meric@nwom@n
I think it must just be in ascii CP. Hard as it may be for those who know me only on here to believe I am told repeatedly that I missed my calling that I should have been in standup.
Now you on the other hand are practical choice impaired as I see it.
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:35 pm
by Lord Jim
"Doncha git it? Ah made a funny...."
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:07 am
by Rick
"Between you and I," he said, "I could care less."
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:40 pm
by Sue U
I weep for the copy desks of America, where my youth was so obviously misspent.
Re: I mourn the passing.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:43 pm
by dales
Reading this morning's SF Chrionicle travel section, I happened upon an article about the Oktoberfest in Germany.
"Bottomless
stiens of beer".
TooFunny
