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OK. Not a word, but a phrase: “At this point in time” drives me nuts! It gives me a mental image of some guy in front of a giant sized map of the stars, running back and forth with a pointer, stating: “Not At THAT point in time, (running over to a different area of the map,) “But at THIS point in time.” Apparently the words “then” and “now” were removed from the dictionary.
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Here is something that works for me, if you don’t mind saying it like an Aussie.
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In my everyday speech, I pronounce “peculiar” as “pe-KYULE-yah”.
Said this way, it is far easier to add the “-ly” on the end.
Thus “pe-KYULE-yah-lee”.
Chris
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In my everyday speech, I pronounce “peculiar” as “pe-KYULE-yah”.
Said this way, it is far easier to add the “-ly” on the end.
Thus “pe-KYULE-yah-lee”.
Chris
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Could this be the origin of your mental image?mhhbook wrote: ↑June 9th, 2019, 6:31 pm OK. Not a word, but a phrase: “At this point in time” drives me nuts! It gives me a mental image of some guy in front of a giant sized map of the stars, running back and forth with a pointer, stating: “Not At THAT point in time, (running over to a different area of the map,) “But at THIS point in time.” Apparently the words “then” and “now” were removed from the dictionary.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrorgYxl10
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Makes sense, plus it's a great cartoon. However, the phrase drove me nuts during the Watergate era... hey, that's aging me! Here's a link to a great article about the interesting phrases used during those hearings. https://clickamericana.com/topics/politics/a-look-at-the-lingo-picked-up-from-the-watergate-hearings-1973 Telephonically...gotta love that one!SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑June 9th, 2019, 7:11 pmCould this be the origin of your mental image?mhhbook wrote: ↑June 9th, 2019, 6:31 pm OK. Not a word, but a phrase: “At this point in time” drives me nuts! It gives me a mental image of some guy in front of a giant sized map of the stars, running back and forth with a pointer, stating: “Not At THAT point in time, (running over to a different area of the map,) “But at THIS point in time.” Apparently the words “then” and “now” were removed from the dictionary.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrorgYxl10
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That's a cool article! Some of those are now well rooted in everyday speech, such as "time frame" and to "sign off" on something. I never would have guessed that this is where they came from!mhhbook wrote: ↑June 9th, 2019, 8:28 pm Makes sense, plus it's a great cartoon. However, the phrase drove me nuts during the Watergate era... hey, that's aging me! Here's a link to a great article about the interesting phrases used during those hearings. https://clickamericana.com/topics/politics/a-look-at-the-lingo-picked-up-from-the-watergate-hearings-1973 Telephonically...gotta love that one!
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What drove me nuts is that the hearings always pre-empted the after-school movies and I was so looking forward to The Planet of the Apes movie series that one week.
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And I thought I was watching the Planet of the Apes...realisticspeakers wrote: ↑June 10th, 2019, 3:36 amWhat drove me nuts is that the hearings always pre-empted the after-school movies and I was so looking forward to The Planet of the Apes movie series that one week.
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I don't mind those so much but I despise benignantly and benignity. So hard to say and writers seemed to LOVE those two words in the olden days!LikeManyWaters wrote: ↑June 4th, 2019, 7:43 am I'm currently annoyed with benign, benignly, and benignness. The author of my solo having used them over half a dozen times. Not that I hate saying it, just thought he could have possibly found some other descriptive synonym to use. But by the time you've finished writing a really long book, you might not realize you've used it that much.
Sometimes easy words trip me up if I start to think about them too much. Like "asked" or whether or not I'm pronouncing "t" and "d" in certain words.
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Eh mate, I'd do the same... if only I were Aussie.SonOfTheExiles wrote: ↑June 9th, 2019, 7:04 pm Here is something that works for me, if you don’t mind saying it like an Aussie.
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In my everyday speech, I pronounce “peculiar” as “pe-KYULE-yah”.
Said this way, it is far easier to add the “-ly” on the end.
Thus “pe-KYULE-yah-lee”.
Chris
I have advanced well into my later years by saying pa-Kyule-yer-lee.
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Tertiary or any other five-dollar word.
“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
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“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
― Mark Twain
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I think that after secondary, tertiary is perfectly cromulent. It's quaternary that resounds superfluous.verycherrey wrote: ↑July 7th, 2019, 10:11 pm Tertiary or any other five-dollar word.
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Am I correct in saying that at 5 in the afternoon in the tropics everything is quininary?realisticspeakers wrote: ↑July 8th, 2019, 8:43 amI think that after secondary, tertiary is perfectly cromulent. It's quaternary that resounds superfluous.verycherrey wrote: ↑July 7th, 2019, 10:11 pm Tertiary or any other five-dollar word.
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