My coat?UncleEbenezer wrote:I'll get me coat.
[pedant]........[/pedant]
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Instep wrote:My coat?UncleEbenezer wrote:I'll get me coat.
Why should he get your coat?
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Not in that particular phrase.Instep wrote:My coat?UncleEbenezer wrote:I'll get me coat.
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No, his coat.Instep wrote:My coat?UncleEbenezer wrote:I'll get me coat.
Or did you mean,
"My coat" ?
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Since the context is mid-sentence, I find your capitalisation idiosyncratic.redsturgeon wrote: "My coat" ?
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You started it, I was quoting the capital in your "My coat?"UncleEbenezer wrote:Since the context is mid-sentence, I find your capitalisation idiosyncratic.redsturgeon wrote: "My coat" ?
John
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I wrote no such thing.redsturgeon wrote:You started it, I was quoting the capital in your "My coat?"UncleEbenezer wrote: Since the context is mid-sentence, I find your capitalisation idiosyncratic.
John
The poster with whom you appear to have confused me was writing (albeit probably unwittingly) in a different context, and the capitalisation was correct. It is only your in your (probably correct) interpretation of what was meant that the mid-sentence context applies.
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I don't think I'm at home in pedantry.
I will get my coat.
Instep
I will get my coat.
Instep
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Your statement is not very clear. I am sure, given enough time, we will all get our coats sometime in the future. Especially now it's winter, it gets a bit parky going out without a coat.Instep wrote:I don't think I'm at home in pedantry.
I will get my coat.
Instep
Do you mean that you are getting your coat right now, or in the next few minutes or so?
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Does it matter? He is getting his coat - "I will" - so whether right now or later, the information is correct. As long as he actually does get it, otherwise an unfulfilled intention becomes a lie. Then again, anytime between now and his hopefully-not-for-a-long-time death fulfills that intention, so we might have to wait.kiloran wrote:Your statement is not very clear. I am sure, given enough time, we will all get our coats sometime in the future. Especially now it's winter, it gets a bit parky going out without a coat.Instep wrote:I don't think I'm at home in pedantry.
I will get my coat.
Instep
Do you mean that you are getting your coat right now, or in the next few minutes or so?
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By the way, going back to interesting combinations of words:
flammable / inflammable
flammable / inflammable
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Has anyone seen my coat? I can't find it.
I thought I saw someone, draped in ill fitting pyjamas, wearing a coat that looked remarkedly like the one I was wearing when I arrived.
Did anybody notice where he went?
I thought I saw someone, draped in ill fitting pyjamas, wearing a coat that looked remarkedly like the one I was wearing when I arrived.
Did anybody notice where he went?
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WHAT??!! Does it matter?? Of course it matters, You do realise this is Pendants' Place?NomoneyNohoney wrote: Does it matter?
I'll be reporting you to the mods for using such language in this forum.
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Lead vs. led.
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Are you saying Lead or Lead?LadyGagarin wrote:Lead vs. led.
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And should Lead vs. led. actually be Lead vs. LED? a.k.a. L.E.D. Light Emitting Diodepanamagold wrote:Are you saying Lead or Lead?LadyGagarin wrote:Lead vs. led.
I'm not being condescending am I?
That means, talking down to you...
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"In certain circumstances, unclear instructions could lead to disaster.panamagold wrote:Are you saying Lead or Lead?LadyGagarin wrote:Lead vs. led.
This led to the introduction of Health & Safety legislation."
I presume it is the existence of the noun 'lead', homophonous with 'led' (past participle of the verb 'to lead') that has led to the confusion but I was referring to the present participle of the verb, not to the toxic metal.
What? I came here to be pedantic, not helpful!
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