The whole me/I/myself with another person in the mix conundrum. It is so easy. Take the other person out of the sentence. The one you would choose in that case is the same one you would you when discussing the actions of you and another person.
Vocabulary rant
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Surprisingly, any dense forest isn't friendly to wildlife. Most wildlife is concentrated on the edge areas. That's why wildlife management areas usually have swaths of clear areas adjacent to forest. Even where you have non-farmed timber, the trees tend to naturally group monoculture fashion depending on soil type and moisture. On the non-cultivated areas of our farm, we had pines and oaks and other trees, but they weren't interspersed, and this was natural distribution.
Most farmed timber is periodically clear-cut and set out again. After all, it's a farm. The typical urban image of clear-cutting is that the land is left barren, and that's not a true picture of what's going on.
Growing up, I used to argue against monoculture tree farms not for environmental concerns, but from a standpoint of making the best use of soil types. I really wish I could have set out a stand of black walnut several decades ago.
Neither are manufacturing plants.
You would think it was that simple, but I have heard a number of persons use "myself" as a sole subject.
"Myself wants to thank you all for coming."
Whenever I hear that, all I can think of is "George likes his chicken spicy."
Touché
Even better.
Either way, I'm probably not listening to what the speaker is saying for the next several seconds.
I assume your was from Seinfeld. It have tried to watch that show, and love Larry David as a writer, I just can only stomach so much Jerry Seinfeld.
We're not supposed to talk about the moleIs that meant to mole-ify your critics?
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Fumbling about.
I like the words transparent and transparency, but as used by many they mean something quite different. Remember the Big Lie and such from 1984?
The Affordable Transportation Project means the cost of transportation will dramatically increase. The Honesty in Legislation Proposal means the legislature has figured out how to increase and more successfully hide their corruption. The Transparent Sunshine Law means more and worse decisions will be made behind closed doors.
I will have the most honest and transparent administration in history means I will be the most crooked and disingenuous elected official in memory.
I'm not entirely sure anything has changed, but it oftentimes looks as if it has.
What's the younger generation coming to?
Happy shaves,
Jim
I'd normally refrain from mentioning this, but since we're all waxing pedantic on this thread, I think you meant to say "it does nothing to reduce its cromulescence."
That drift in usage used to bother me more until someone pointed out that the word has always had multiple meanings in English (not sure about Latin) and that its oldest meaning may have been as a synonym for "tithe." (Now that I think about it, maybe the drift in usage began when some poor parishioner complained: "Decimating my income is decimating my income!")
That said, if "defenestrate" is ever similarly watered down to mean "throw," I shall be sorely tempted to defenestrate the perpetrators.
Well, if it just means “throw” they probably won’t be too bothered by the prospect.
Anyone mentioned the Star trek word "meld" yet. It seems to be an everyday word here in the UK now and has replaced the word "joined".
I hadn't heard that, but it makes some sense (and it evoked a bit of a chuckle).
And they probably figure that wearing a cup would prevent any real problem.
Since decimate comes from the Latin decimatio, and decim is Latin for ten, the Romans likely understood it in the sense of military unit forced to kill one in ten of their own.
