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Digitation: December 2014
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On seeing her child throwing stones at the ducks, the boy's mother promptly picked him up and returned him to his pushchair. In other words, the boy was sat in his pushchair by his mother. Does it really matter? Does it matter that the popular construction is not simply grammatically erroneous, but also guides the listener towards a semantic jumble and confusion? Or the sloppy speaker can offer unsolicited corrections and amendments. "When I say parsnips, I mean Bishopsgate.". Whilst I am hazy about date...
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Digitation: Martin Herbert, who died on Wednesday 10 December 2014
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Martin Herbert, who died on Wednesday 10 December 2014. Martin Herbert was my friend. He died in the early hours of yesterday morning. He died suddenly and unexpectedly. His death is a great shock to everyone who knew him. My cassette tape of the music is nearly worn out, but it can still be found in mp3 format on his website (www.martinherbert.com). To live in the house of a friend. There he started to develop much further his abilities in fine art. I think that he was in Spain for a couple of ...Middl...
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Digitation: December 2012
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Sloppy use of language. From India " Peccavi. And I recognise that the term pedant is usually used as an insult. I dislike the sloppy use of language, and consider it uncouth to revel in language laziness. I feel irritated when I read public signs (such as above express checkout lanes in some Tesco supermarkets), or hear people speaking on the radio (for example Peter White on In Touch. To reject what is uncouth. William Shakespeare spelled even his name. 2 The poor use of language, perhaps including obf...
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Digitation: November 2012
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Digitation: February 2014
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Care of my health data [tbc]. This posting was intended to be part of a longer essay. What is currently presented here was written in sections over several days. The piece was then left, abandoned really, as a draft for eighteen months, awaiting my return and completion. I returned to it on 12 June 2015, but completion still has a wait. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. Care of my health data [tbc]. Green: my website about environmental issues.
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Digitation: Good English
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On seeing her child throwing stones at the ducks, the boy's mother promptly picked him up and returned him to his pushchair. In other words, the boy was sat in his pushchair by his mother. Does it really matter? Does it matter that the popular construction is not simply grammatically erroneous, but also guides the listener towards a semantic jumble and confusion? Or the sloppy speaker can offer unsolicited corrections and amendments. "When I say parsnips, I mean Bishopsgate.". View my complete profile.
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Digitation: July 2013
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Day Zero: Moving-in Day. A time to scatter stones. The removers are busy removing the final items of furniture, boxes of crockery, and disability-related equipment. At the moment this feels like moving-out day - although, interestingly not quite yet moving-on day - that comes a little later. Ecclesiastes 3: "A time to scatter stones.". End of Book Three. Cooking pizze in a wood-fired pizza oven. Less than a week to go. We have asked to transfer our membership of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)...
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Digitation: August 2012
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Digitation: Care of my health data [tbc]
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Care of my health data [tbc]. This posting was intended to be part of a longer essay. What is currently presented here was written in sections over several days. The piece was then left, abandoned really, as a draft for eighteen months, awaiting my return and completion. I returned to it on 12 June 2015, but completion still has a wait. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. Care of my health data [tbc]. Green: my website about environmental issues.
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Digitation: September 2014
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14:24 - 16:24 Saturday 13 September 2014. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Middle-aged, middle-class, married, male, straight, parent, English-speaking, white-skinned, intellectual, politically engaged, politically pluralist, liberal attitudes, vegan, environmental values, Quaker. View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. Green: my website about environmental issues. Sound Signs: weblog of Jemima Hughes and family.
