This just in from Wandsworth Cemetery. It’s only a shame that the member of the Undead who wrote it can’t spell “seamlessly”.
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Love the exclamation mark for the easily excited. You can just imagine a night of passion with the author, can’t you?
Sounds like something that was written by several people together around a table.
Thanks – I was supposed to be drafting a piece of direct mail today but now I'm worried that whatever I write is going to seam* perfect in comparison, however bad it is.
Perhaps it's just a clever technique – if you want to claim that you've come up with something new, simply use a combination of words that nobody has ever thought of using before. Especially if a lot of the words aren't really words…
*a seemless joke
What is interesting is that this is clearly something very good, magnificently obscured by a cloud of polysyllabic guff. I have a client in Oregon that sells scientific equipment to whom I think my main contribution has been to encourage plain language.
I think it would be easier to accept if it wasn't for the exclamation mark at the end. I don't know why.
By the way – clicking on your name above your comment takes you to http://www.draytonbirdcommonsesnse.com/ – sesnse not sense.
What a yawnfest. Thanks for sharing though, Drayton. I think I'll send it to my sister; when one of her kids is having night terrors or refuses to nod off, she can read it to them and bore them to sleep 🙂
Debs x
This is off subject, Drayton, but as an authority on modern English usage could you explain the American usage of the word 'fit'?
Apparently in the US the word is invariable, set in stone in fact.
If I was an American, which of course I am not (do I hear 300 million collective sighs of relief?), my trousers may fit me today but yesterday they fit someone much larger. Criticism of my eating habits would be entirely fit.
Whatever happened to fitted and fitting?
Your lucid and incisive thoughts are awaited.
Cheers
John
“Two countries divided by a common language” — but I think American English will win because of TV, Hollywood, etc. Already people here say “I'm good” which used to mean well-behaved and now means well. On the underground we are asked to exit, rather then leave the damn train – there are tons of examples. But language does not stand still. 150 years ago “ain't” was upper class usage; now it isn't – and so on. By the way, I don't consider myself an expert at all. My only merit in this as many other matters is that I am slightly more knowledgeable than most.
Not only can the dolt not spell “seamlessly”, neither can he/she spell “modelling” (unless it's US spelling) nor the third word from the end … “companies” should be “company's”.
Hey, I have noticed that occasionally this page shows a 500 server error message. I thought you would like to know. Regards
We regularly have all manner of problems. Bring back the parchment and quill!