Then I screw ep and use linguist instead od linguistic :-( Bill
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Bill Owens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > -- 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.
