For free.
Posted: January 3rd, 2017, 12:56 pm
This has been annoying me intensely for several years now. Maybe it's caught on because the alliteration makes it sound good.
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If ever there were two boards born to be merged together, it is the Pedants' board and the Grumpy board.UncleEbenezer wrote:Perhaps you should be on the grumps board. I've always thought it a perfectly valid idiomatic expression.
Where would that leave the cheerful pedants and the laissez faire grumps?Lootman wrote:If ever there were two boards born to be merged together, it is the Pedants' board and the Grumpy board.UncleEbenezer wrote:Perhaps you should be on the grumps board. I've always thought it a perfectly valid idiomatic expression.
Where they are now - a statistically insignificant minority?redsturgeon wrote:Where would that leave the cheerful pedants and the laissez faire grumps?
With the greatest of respect, I think that "laissez faire", when used as an adjective, should be hyphenated!redsturgeon wrote:Where would that leave the cheerful pedants and the laissez faire grumps?
'they are the Pedants' ...'Lootman wrote:If ever there were two boards born to be merged together, it is the Pedants' board and the Grumpy board.
Can things be merged anything other than together?quelquod wrote:'they are the Pedants' ...'Lootman wrote:If ever there were two boards born to be merged together, it is the Pedants' board and the Grumpy board.
Yes, the "together" in my statement is redundant, just like the "anything" in your statement.chas49 wrote:'Can things be merged anything other than together?Lootman wrote:If ever there were two boards born to be merged together, it is the Pedants' board and the Grumpy board.
===============Lootman wrote:Where they are now - a statistically insignificant minority?redsturgeon wrote:Where would that leave the cheerful pedants and the laissez faire grumps?
Freedom is for nothing? Oh dear.JMN2 wrote:I am so impressed. One lady on the radio just said "for nothing". There is hope, still.
Don't know anything about freedom, just heard someone say for nothing instead of for free.UncleEbenezer wrote:Freedom is for nothing? Oh dear.JMN2 wrote:I am so impressed. One lady on the radio just said "for nothing". There is hope, still.