Writers are on strike
Writers are on strike
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I'm watching the news the other night and the reporter is commentating on Joe Gibb deciding to leave the Redskins.
The reporter may have been reading cue cards written by a replacement writer as the reporter's statement was (loosely quoted)...
Joe Gibbs RE-SIGNED...err...that is RESIGNED from the Washington Redskins today.
The reporter may have been reading cue cards written by a replacement writer as the reporter's statement was (loosely quoted)...
Joe Gibbs RE-SIGNED...err...that is RESIGNED from the Washington Redskins today.





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We need the writers back I think.
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No. For some reason the weak form (hanged) is used for "put to death by hanging". Don't ask me why!
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I was also of the thought that the past tense 'hung' was proper, and raised the issue with my high school aged son when the hanging of Saddam took place.
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1: hang - hung - hung, which is either what you do: "I hung my jacket in the closet" or the situation something is in: "The jacket hung in the closet".
2: hang - hanged - hanged, which means to be killed by hanging.
Benta.
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I wonder if George B will step in like Ron R did for the air traffic controllers in the 1980's. Surely he consiiders this a crisis of similar proportions. But at least we still have the Beavis and Butthead reruns.
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i get my news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. History is written by the victors (unless on strike).
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KEYS TO REENTRY was about. She looked at me very puzzled.
I showed her the software with her variable KEYSTOREENTRY.
Oh, she said, KEY STORE ENTRY!
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They hung the picture.
They hanged Saddam.
Benta is correct that there are two verbs which decline differently.
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From the verb to burgle comes the noun burglar: someone who burgles. The Americans have a habit of turning nouns into verbs: hospital to hospitalize, so it is very funny to hear the Americans say burglarize. Maybe the English should reply with sentences like "he is a burglarizer" instead of burglar and other people could chip in with "it was a burglarization" instead of burglary, or "my house was burglarizationed".
Right, I'm off to cookerize my roastation.
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My pet peeve of the moment is the use of myself for me, him/herself for him/her, etc. Classic mangling of the English language: I went into a branch of a well-known British pharmacy for some cough medicine a few weeks ago and the female assistant said, "I have to ask yourself some questions first." Grrrrr.
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When writing software I always capitalise the individual words in a concatenated name like KeyStoreEntry, to avoid the confusion mentioned by crystalclear above, besides as mentioned before in this forum, all capitals looks nasty!
All lower case with no spaces can give troubles too; I believe the Experts Exchange website (a great software forum) originally had a lot of enquiries for expert sex change before they hyphenated it.
Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK
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