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Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 10:10 am Post subject:

'I was born and raised in Virginia.' Is that a cow talking? Or a plant?

And what about 'child-rearing'? Too agricultural sounding?

I thought crops were grown? Let's grow children too!

Screw it - let's not raise any more issues. Let's raze 'em instead!

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 10:12 am Post subject:

It's a brimful of asha on the 45!

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 10:14 am Post subject:

A peeve from the ignorant violent masses: 'To raise a city to the ground'.

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 10:38 am Post subject:

basiltherat · Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 952

When somebody starts his sentence with "To tell you the truth ....", [/i[i]]"Quite frankly, ......", [i]"To be perfectly honest ..... ", you can be sure that what you hear next is a gross lie.

And when someone says, "Let me be perfectly clear .... " (or of such ilk), you can bet what comes out is anything but !

After hearing such insipid and inane expressions so often, I have given up on listening to/watching politicians on TV to save the TV from having my fist plough through the screen.

Best
Basil Smile

Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 11:23 am Post subject:

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 1:36 pm Post subject:

Is Virginia really fer lovers?

NCTBA Laughing

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Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:46 pm Post subject:

'To harass'. Stress placement makes for a peeve of great annoyance.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I doubt our managament would pronounce it to your satisfation, but they sure know how to DO it Sad

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

I haven't posted anything for a while, so I needed to gripe about SOMETHING, spiral78. No offense.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 6:03 am Post subject:

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

Sash, if you're telling me that's a typo, you are WRONG!! Not only are you wrong, I'm VERY, VERY disappointed.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 6:33 am Post subject:

Heh heh! No, of course I'm not. Just trying to provoke the same peevement in others which I experience when my spelling in assumed to be wrong and then corrected, even on this forum. For example, google 'travelling' and more than a few on-line dictionaries (which seem to be mainly US websites) will claim that this is a British variant, and some posters on forums even say it is just wrong.

When EFL teachers sometimes do this, that is truly disappointing, JohnTpartee, as it shows a troubling lack of awareness. Therefore I sympathise with your feelings and hope that you'll join me in my peevement.

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

Gotcha; I was gonna say something like "Say it ain't so" or "Whydja do it, Sash?". You have restored my faith in humanity.