Christopher Smith wrote:
On Oct 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
it really reeks havoc with the score spacing.
Since I know from your recent posts that you are the kind of guy who
hates to use the wrong homophone, I'm sure you won't take it badly when
I point out that you probably meant to say "wreaks."
Other substitutions I see all the time are "affect" and "effect", as in
"he effected a change that affected everyone," and "wet" for "whet", as
in "we can whet our appetites with a bite of cheese, and then we can wet
our fingers in the fingerbowls."
This subject makes me very unpopular at dinner parties. 8-(
But at least it keeps the conversation going, when your fellow guests
complain about the language-nazis and how language is evolving and
shouldn't be rigidly locked into any one state of existence like Latin is.
Then, when you go to the bathroom, they all talk about how you're so
intellectually superior and don't hesitate to show it and why did they
ever invite you in the first place.
You have probably save the lagging conversations at countless parties,
preventing them from having to complain yet again about how rainy it's been.
You're the perfect dinner guest! :-)
--
David H. Bailey
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