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Subject: [OM] Re: OT English as she is spoke
From: "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:42:32 -0700
Well, for Christ's sake, don't feed Bush any Vegemite. Perhaps We're having
our year-end summary. I still don't know what Spotted Dick is. I don't think
I want it though. I finally sold all of the tripods but still have too many
LowePro camera bags. I might make some good deals there if someone was to
beg a little. /jmac

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Behalf Of Andrew Fildes
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:12 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT English as she is spoke



Spill chuckers are a great cause of malapropisms - they suggest
correct spelling for the wrong words and the aforementioned dimbots
click the 'change' button dutifully. Thus I've had Kosovo overrun by
unnecessary macaques (massacres) and many not quite so weird efforts.
The offender usually claims that, 'it doesn't matter does it? You
knew what I MEANT", as if I'm being unnecessarily difficult. Frankly
I preferred the genuinely literacy challenged group I taught this
year. At least they were happy to acknowledge that they had a problem.
incidentally, have we revisited every standard theme and topic in the
last week except Vegemite and murkin politiks?
AndrewF

On 13/12/2005, at 3:39 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:

> I've started a collection of malaprops.  These are just the
> beginning, all found in the last 10 days or so in internet posts.
> None here, of course.
>
> ...cut off your nose despite your face...
> ...first one out of the shoot...
> ...taken for granite...
> ...would reek havoc...
>
> I'm looking forward to many more, maybe even one or two here. :-)
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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