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Re: Metroliner Club car.. it begs the question..
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Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:05:30 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Maggie Cambron writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Erik Olson writes:
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> > While we're begging, I think we should demand that it all comes for free,
> > yesterday. And it should be better than the originals!
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> > By the way, look up the phrase "begs the question" -- I do not think that
> > expression means what you think it means...
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> Ack, that bugs me too! Another pet peeve of mine is when people use the word
> "dilemma" to mean any old problem.
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> Maggie C.
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> P.S. To Richard M.-- after having looked it up in three separate dictionaries
> I grudgingly admit you were right about the word "dipsomania". Hmph.
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> > While you have the style guide out, you could also look up the expression
> > "don't look a gift horse in the mouth", ok?
I think this is a good time to illustrate another abused idiom: showstopper:
"Brad Justus held up pictures of the Metroliner and Club Car - it was a
showstopper." (there were actually quite a few showstoppers at Brickfest,
not all of them planned.) A showstopper is when you have to pause and just
stand there waiting for the applause to die down.
In information technology the term "showstopper" is unfortunately used as a
synonym for "insurmountable problem". This misuse begs the true spirit of
show business, where the show never can stop; if there were an
insurmountable problem you would improvise around it and impress the heck
out of the audience.
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| (...) Yikes, that IS unfortunate! Here's one: "factoid"-- I have the same problem with the popular (2nd def'n.) use of this word (y'all who've used it this way here know who you are!) as is mentioned in the usage note at dictionary.com: (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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