Post #392,580
7/29/14 6:44:25 PM
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China goes after their Plutocrat unWorthies
..unlike well, you know. Guess that's easier in a Surveillance State--do we know any Others of that kind? (Can't be local: we never manage to find-out-enough to umm, Act? I mean, even the Shogunate's co-Leader's rapid aggrandizement --isn't enough to be Sure.) Or our finely-honed Court System would have..
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Post #392,581
7/29/14 7:50:05 PM
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Grammar nit
"... the first member, sitting or retired, of the Politburo Standing Committee ..."
Sitting member of the standing committee. Right.
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Post #392,584
7/29/14 8:46:25 PM
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Sometimes words have more than one meaning.
A *standing committee* is simply a permanent committee.
A *sitting member* is simply a current member.
But, yeah, the etymology of these word pairs (collocations?) being obscure, makes the intersection of these word pairs in a sentence look stupid. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #392,587
7/29/14 10:34:07 PM
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Re: Sometimes words have more than one meaning.
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Post #392,588
7/29/14 10:42:19 PM
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That makes my head hurt. This makes it hurt worser.
"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher." Ouch. Thanks. :-) Cheers, Scott.
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Post #392,590
7/29/14 10:53:36 PM
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Ha! Thanks!
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Post #392,792
8/4/14 2:49:45 PM
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Follow up
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Post #392,798
8/4/14 3:30:27 PM
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That's ... real? WTF?!
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Post #392,839
8/5/14 8:12:03 PM
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Seen elsewhere; Snopes gets a null.. But it's 2014, so..
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Post #392,840
8/5/14 8:30:50 PM
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Yes evidently so...
And it is a crying shame. --
greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #392,844
8/6/14 1:48:13 AM
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Twitter beckons...
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Post #392,958
8/8/14 5:05:03 PM
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like the white guy who used the word
niggardly correctly in a sentence in DC. out the door he went Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
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Post #392,968
8/8/14 7:11:21 PM
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Slight difference
"Niggardly" is a little-used, almost archaic term with multiple good synonyms, and the guy using it was in a position where he should have been hyper-sensitive to appearances.
"Homonym" is the only word for that. It was used in the context of *defining* that very word. And the guy who pitched a fit because he had to look it up owns a company dedicated to teaching language skills.
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