On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, "Matthew Walker" wrote:
On Sat, September 9, 2006 11:08 am, Ross Werner wrote:
Here, here. For all intensive purposes grammer and spelling is lost art.
ARGH! That's my pet peeve you just hit!
It drives me absolutely insane when people say 'for all intensive
purposes'. I understand you were being silly, but... ARGH. :)
I must say it cracks me up. Although I underestimated how many people
would think I was actually being serious.
By the way, I discovered today that there is a word for such things as
"here, here" and "all intensive purposes", and a web site devoted to
collecting them:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
That site is like manner from heaven.
~ Ross
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