General Chat

Who knows the secret of deathlessness?

Life is too important to be taken seriously (Oscar Wilde).

Children are a sexually transmitted disease.

Never start something before you know how to stop it.

If all else fails, read the instructions.

"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism "

Barry Goldwater

Intolerance should not be tolerated.

'Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance'.

(Confucius - often quoted by our school teachers.)

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.

Or, in a letter of reference about a former employee ...

Nobody could do the job better!

:-D

I cannot help everyone but everyone can help someone.

I wanna glass.

No red wine in this house, a bit too broke with having no parliament for a few weeks ... work should be starting pronto with the house resuming on the 2nd ... as all the email updates I've been getting this week have been indicating ...

Ordinarily, I'm sitting at the keyboard on a Friday afternoon (it's almost 3 p.m. here) waiting for the Friday afternoon dump, somebody needs something urgently for Monday 8 a.m. ... that they probably could have requested earlier, but hey, it's not their weekend they're screwing. That did restart last Friday. Almost had something 10 minutes ago, but it got cancelled before I'd read the email!

So here I sit for the next 3 hours, just in case ... but then what else would I be doing? ;)

No.1 is out getting groceries between the rain. If it starts up again before his return trip, I probably won't see him again. As I understand it, he goes up in a poof of steam if rain touches him.

I'm sure he took his umbrella, though.

Oh look! Umbrella! Thread back on track ...

ooh no please do not start on quote / quotation...I am doing something I haven't done for over a year and my grammar may suffer on account of it...



drinking red wine !

It's one I have to keep my eye out for in my own writing ...

Please get me the rake that is in the garage.
- not any old rake, not the rake in the garden shed -- the rake in the garage

Please get me the rake, which is in the garage
- the rake, and that's where to find it

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/which.htm

But few writers have ever followed these rules systematically, and it’s easy to find examples in which "which" is used to start a restrictive clause. Sir Ernest Gowers, writing in the 1965 edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage, comments rather sadly about this situation:

"If writers would agree to regard 'that' as the defining relative pronoun, and 'which' as the non-defining, there would be much gain both in lucidity and in ease. Some there are who follow this principle now; but it would be idle to pretend that it is the practice either of most or of the best writers."


We're in good company. ;)

This is the quote that I liked.

This is the quote, which I liked.

Of course, we won't get started on "quote" vs "quotation" ...

:D

You are quite correct Janey, very sloppy of me lol. :D

So, being in a pedantic mood, I thought I'd drop back in here.

(Apparently JiminyCricket has deleted the post that was here, so Rose and I both look like we're gibbering.)

RR -- Tsk and tsk.

"Quote which I liked"

Quote THAT I liked, surely.

;)

Less is more

There are more people who don’t than do.

Dermot ...that is so true-jl

Love it Rose, had not seen that one.

For every answer, there is a question.

There's only one JC around here ...

Years ago I'd found a site by Guy Etchells that showed the marriages of all of the last of the Rushlands of England, in the second decade of the 1800s in Leicestershire -- a batch of sisters, two of whom were married to my grx3 grandfather and one of whom was my grx3 grandmother. (Well, she wasn't actually married to him -- good middle class citizens that they were, he wasn't legally allowed to marry his deceased wife's sister!)

I believe I'd acknowledged his generosity with that transcription in threads at this site long before that whole 1921 brouhaha was even a glint in his eye. ;)

"If music be the food of love, prepare for some indigestion".

I like that Dermot but will add if it's what you want and nobody else does