Mark
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From: [email protected]
Date: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:38 am
Subject: [USMA:52488] Re: Errors in Grammar
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
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> ......as well as the difference between ‘I’ and ‘me’.
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> Other annoyances – not knowing ‘principle’ and ‘principal’, ‘its’ and
> ‘it’s’ (that one really bugs me!), and so on. Hardly a metric subject, but if
> measurements are a form of language (and indeed I feel they are), then it is
> important we know and can use all forms of language correctly.
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> John F-L
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> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:17 AM
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:52484] Errors in Grammar
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> Likewise, getting it wrong for the personal
> pronouns: *he and she* versus *him and her.*
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> Even many national TV commentators don't know the difference between the
> subjective and objective cases.
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> behalf of Carleton MacDonald [[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday,
> March 07, 2013 8:56 PM
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject:
> [USMA:52473] Re: Use of the Word "Metric"
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The latter is
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Farther =
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Further =
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Carleton
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From:
> [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Phil Chernack
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 19:04
> To:
> U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:52472] Re: Use of the Word
> "Metric"
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That's because people don't know the difference between
> affect and effect. They also don't know the difference between further and
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Of course, the great irony is that "verb" is a noun.
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It doesn't matter anyway, we're about 30 years late but we
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(the funny thing is I think Orwell used metric in
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Phil
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]>
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>Two particular annoyances:
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> An impact is what happens
> when one thing strikes another. It has now been
> "verbed" and is the
> new trendy business buzzword for "affect".
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> "Leverage" is a financial
> term involving using borrowed money for a purpose.
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> new trendy word as both a noun and, unspeakably, a
> verb.
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> I edit
> documents at work and have a rather notorious reputation at editing
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> both words whenever I see them used inappropriately.
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> Carleton
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> -----Original
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of [email protected]
> Sent:
> Thursday, March 07, 2013 14:56
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject:
> [USMA:52464] Re: Use of the Word "Metric"
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> Re: [USMA:52457] Reuse of
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> An interesting point. The venerable Webster's Unabridged
> Second Edition,
> which is still used by careful writers, does not list
> "metric" as a noun.
> The Third Edition does, so the word gained recognition
> after 1960.
> Accurate writers now use "SI Metric" to designate the Modern
> Metric System.
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> The usage that really bugs me is the run-away usage of
> "vouns," that is,
> verbs used as nouns. We are commonly hearing now,
> except from the most
> careful broadcasters, "the sequester" instead of "the
> sequestration." We
> have long heard in recent decades about doing "an
> install" instead of "an
> installation." This confusing peculiarity of
> English works the other way
> too. For example, some would "mustard"
> their hot dog, using the noun as a
> verb.
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