My linguist peeve is "preventative" instead of preventive On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:46:35PM -0500, ann sanfedele wrote: > # Those lenses of my friend.... > # > # They really are minty -- I sold one on ebay and the guy was ecstatic! ... > > Ann, I'm afraid that you just poked one of my big linguistic peeves. > > Do the lenses smell like toothpaste? If so, they are minty. > > Are they in perfect condition, like a coin that has just been released > from the mint? If so, they are "mint", or in "mint condition". > > -- > Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. > Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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