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Post by patricklondon on Sept 21, 2022 4:22:35 GMT
I got the first half of both these quotes, but am stumped by the second halves: "... I have a half-warmed fish in my heart." "... you must leave by the town drain" Is the second possibly "dawn train"? "Half-formed wish" = Victorian euphemism "Down train" = train away from a main town/city and out to the sticks |
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 21, 2022 4:24:58 GMT
I got the first half of both these quotes, but am stumped by the second halves: Is the second possibly "dawn train"? "Half-formed wish" = Victorian poetical/romantic euphemism "Down train" = train away from a main town/city and out to the sticks |
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 21, 2022 4:58:23 GMT
Thank you! half-formed wish/half-warmed fish is hysterical  |
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 21, 2022 5:22:27 GMT
My brain is not wired to decipher most spoonerisms.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 5, 2022 15:07:52 GMT
Just watching Antiques Road Trip in which the narrator says that one of the items is a wooden policeman’s truncheon. No! It’s a policeman’s wooden truncheon.
This sort of mistake happens a lot now,
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 5, 2022 17:54:02 GMT
I'm definitely not the best person concerning English but if there were to be two truncheons, a wooden one and an aluminium one (I had one of those for a while and also the American style night stick type) couldn't you say it is a wooden policeman's truncheon as opposed to an aluminium policeman's truncheon?
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 5, 2022 20:39:10 GMT
No.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 5, 2022 21:20:06 GMT
Mick is absolutely correct except for putting it in this thread, whereas I'd have put it in the grammar thread. Even so, all is forgiven because a) he's so cute and b) that "wooden policeman" bad phrasing is one of my pet peeves.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2022 0:29:16 GMT
I read about the "wooden policeman" here earlier today. You can imagine my joy when I read this just now in a news article: His days otherwise are filled with doing schoolwork for his degree in nutrition and seeing friends.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 6, 2022 5:34:48 GMT
*Walks into a truncheon manufacturers shop....*
"Have you got any policeman's truncheons?"
"We've got all sorts. Police, Security Guard, Military.... Do you want wooden ones, metal ones or plastic?"
"Wood."
"So you want a wooden policeman's truncheon, not a metal policeman's truncheon or a plastic one. (So you want a policeman's wooden truncheon, not a policeman's metal truncheon or a plastic one"
"Yes."
"We have mahogany policeman's truncheons, pine wood policeman's truncheons, oak or beech policeman's truncheons. (We have policeman's mahogany truncheons, policeman's pine wood truncheons, oak or policeman's beech truncheons.) Which do you want?"
"I'll have a mahogany one. A mahogany policeman's truncheon please."
"You mean a policeman's mahogany truncheon."
"No, I mean a policeman's truncheon made out of mahogany. A mahogany policeman's truncheon."
I know there is an order of adjectives we unconsciously use, but depending on the emphasis/circumstances it isn't surely set in stone, and I know what sounds right, be it maybe grammatically wrong/debatable. No?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2022 6:17:35 GMT
It is often simply a matter of context.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 6, 2022 7:17:44 GMT
Mick is absolutely correct except for putting it in this thread, whereas I'd have put it in the grammar thread. Even so, all is forgiven because a) he's so cute and b) that "wooden policeman" bad phrasing is one of my pet peeves. I was too lazy to find the right thread but it is true about cute. |
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 6, 2022 8:11:58 GMT
*Walks into a truncheon manufacturers shop....* "Have you got any policeman's truncheons?" "We've got all sorts. Police, Security Guard, Military.... Do you want wooden ones, metal ones or plastic?" "Wood." "So you want a wooden policeman's truncheon, not a metal policeman's truncheon or a plastic one. (So you want a policeman's wooden truncheon, not a policeman's metal truncheon or a plastic one" "Yes." "We have mahogany policeman's truncheons, pine wood policeman's truncheons, oak or beech policeman's truncheons. (We have policeman's mahogany truncheons, policeman's pine wood truncheons, oak or policeman's beech truncheons.) Which do you want?" "I'll have a mahogany one. A mahogany policeman's truncheon please." "You mean a policeman's mahogany truncheon." "No, I mean a policeman's truncheon made out of mahogany. A mahogany policeman's truncheon." I know there is an order of adjectives we unconsciously use, but depending on the emphasis/circumstances it isn't surely set in stone, and I know what sounds right, be it maybe grammatically wrong/debatable. No? Truncheon It’s a good argument. I’ll accede to that but there is a flaw. Having made it clear in the first sentence that he wants a policeman’s truncheon, the salesman is unlikely to keep repeating policeman, that word now being redundant. |
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 6, 2022 10:24:09 GMT
Redundant, yes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2022 10:25:14 GMT
We can reiterate that.
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Post by questa on Oct 7, 2022 9:41:07 GMT
It has become extraneous.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 7, 2022 12:14:21 GMT
Even superfluous.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 7, 2022 16:43:33 GMT
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Post by questa on Oct 7, 2022 23:29:33 GMT
Totally inefficacious.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 18, 2022 6:45:46 GMT
We were looking for spices in the supermarket yesterday and Mrs Cactus asked me to get her some canine pepper...
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 18, 2022 14:16:59 GMT
I had some of that. Spicy but gave me dog breath.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 18, 2022 17:11:24 GMT
😂 |
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Post by questa on Oct 18, 2022 22:13:14 GMT
You can't make hot dogs without it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 18, 2022 23:57:48 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 28, 2022 21:04:21 GMT
From The Sun-
“Spurs ace Hojberg reveals how he cared for dying dad aged 17”.
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Post by htmb on Nov 3, 2022 20:44:07 GMT
Today on the radio I heard an ad for something with the phrase "averse birth outcomes."
I’m sure they said averse, and not adverse, though neither work for me. Why not just say "May cause birth defects."
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2022 23:04:24 GMT
That was fake fancy resulting in a display of ignorance.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2022 0:55:58 GMT
Since The Serpent Queen particularly concentrates on the infamous historic household’s proud matriarch Catherine, it solely is smart to comply with go well with with Medici. Set within the fifteenth century, the collection follows Cosimo de Medici’s rise to energy after the sudden dying of his father, Gio, a profitable banker. sourceLooking at the source of this deathless prose, I have to conclude that it was sorta kinda translated from Korean.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 11, 2023 18:02:20 GMT
Nuclear pronounced as nucular.
Just had a so called weapons expert on the news who pronounced it nucular.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2023 19:43:45 GMT
That was one of my mother's pet peeves as a teacher, along with people who pronounce February as Febuary.
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