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(...) No one else does, right? :-) Anyway I do agree with you. "could care less" is wrong. When I slip, I explain away by agreeing that I indeed could care less... just not very MUCH less. (no real system can reach an absolute zero temperature... is (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just for my own edification, has there ever been an official pronunciation proclamation by LEGO (which, if not for the pronuciation they use, could arguably rhyme with "ego" despite its etymology) as to which is the correct way to say Technic (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Word. And don't get me started on people who mispronounce "Futuron." Pedants of the world, unite and take over! Coby (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Billy Squier. Dave! (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's kind of like "everyone does things their own way," which is clear noun/pronoun disagreement. These colloquialisms have been around for at least decades and will no doubt ultimately be absorbed into "correct" American English. Still, for (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes on both counts! Here's one that was pointed out to me long ago by a Ph.D. in biology: "dissect" does NOT rhyme with "bisect". The "dis-" has the same short i as in the word "discord". And this makes sense when you think of the meaning of (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's a lovely sweeping generalization you have there. However, I do share your complaint. One of my LEGO-related complaints has to do with the fact that people say "Technique" when they mean "Technic." "Technique" = (tek-neek) "Technic" = (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Okay, they have a good argument, but I must say that I've heard the phrase uttered by a lot of people on whom (IMHO) sarcasm is wasted anyway, so that explanation is a bit of a stretch for me. Hey, and remember that song from long ago "Too (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's been that way for as long as I can remember. And I can remember a fair way back. Steve (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, you got it! Actually I had never heard of Marmite except on Lugnet, but ever since the Men At Work song I have been quite curious about Vegemite-- I even asked my mother-in-law once if she would pick me up some when she went to Australia, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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