Phraseology Tidbits

[cocput]

Well, yes. That's exactly what I posted. English isn't your native language, is it?

No. You blindly rejected the notion about what is acceptable.
Even in academic study use, generic non-authentic sources, may not be referred.

Your specific usage was: (put up there and maintained by the home organization)

Simply using an authoritative in front of the parenthesis doesn't necessarily mean that home organization and authoritative source are same.

Just in case you don't understand technical world, all published papers in technical journals may be pushed online in the journal's site. But all those papers will have journal vol, issue, page numbers.

I may have issues with "native" conversational English, but technical language is my domain. I am a lion in my domain.

--scorpio

 

[_Lynn_]

You missed one, Lynn. The period goes inside the end quotation mark. It should be "... second readers."

But I get your point.

Just didn't want anyone thinking I was a perfectionist, you know.

 

[mynameisben]

Just didn't want anyone thinking I was a perfectionist, you know.

Well played, Lemon.

 

[sr71plt]

No. You blindly rejected the notion about what is acceptable.
Even in academic study use, generic non-authentic sources, may not be referred.

Umm, no. This statement by you is the one I was objecting to:

In fact, all website references, except for links to actual published papers are rejected blindly.

It's quite obvious from your history of posts that you don't comprehend English too well--not even statements you yourself have made.

Most of what is posted to authoritative websites isn't an "actual published paper," but that doesn't make material provided on the website any less a good source for academic citation.

I've just stopped responding to your inanities before--I think I'll stop doing so again, with the blanket statement to other readers that cocput often doesn't have a clue what cocput himself posts.

 

[sr71plt]

Just didn't want anyone thinking I was a perfectionist, you know.

That and when there's so much that needs correcting, it's doubly hard to catch it all.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Consider what your post says about you as an editor, AS.

But I'm not an editor, ML. That's the whole point, isn't it? And I will no longer advertise myself as one, or accept "editing" jobs. I won't waste my time or that of any potential writers looking for one.

SR is the only "editor" here.

And if he can't handle the workload, then so be it. Not my problem.

 

[sr71plt]

*nevermind*

(It never curbs the drunken self-flagellation anyway)

 

[cocput]

I've just stopped responding to your inanities before--I think I'll stop doing so again, with the blanket statement to other readers that cocput often doesn't have a clue what cocput himself posts.

There are a lot of topics in which I am a total novice, and I say it openly. I don't hide my ignorance anywhere.

So, before you start questioning my integrity, prove. I may be meek at times, because I know what I am ignorant of. But other cases....

I stick by whatever I said about technical papers.

If you are willing to learn, I can teach you. Just read some good technical papers before messaging me.

But if you are unwilling to accept that there can be aspects that you haven't mastered, then let's take it private.

If you want to continue this conversation out in the open, then I am willing to do so. Just remember that my name is Scorpio, and that's my Sun Sign too.

 

[sr71plt]

I didn't question your integrity; I questioned your English comprehension ability.

On this particular matter I don't give much credit to your exercise of technical knowledge either. You're just full of beans on what you think you're saying on what can be used from the Internet for academic source citation--which just goes back to your English comprehension ability.

If the source of the information is good (based on the authoritative nature of the website sponsor, e.g., the U.S. copyright office's website on issues of U.S. copyright or the White House website on presidential statements), it can be (and is) used in academic research.

 

[cocput]

I quit. Empty your jar first.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

*nevermind*

So you have attacked me again, and then withdrawn your sword before the blood flowed.

But yet I still do bleed. And to your merriment, I expect.

And so I shall rise a finger to you, a friend I once had, and entrust you that your editing expertise shall render you rich.

And I shall remain in poverty.

So be it, SR.

You ALB.

 

[sr71plt]

You're right, AS, I should have just left the first post up--because you aren't going to get any more sober or any brighter. You are living proof, I'm afraid, that vodka doesn't mix well with fruitcake.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

I guess the question is whether AS will sober up enough to get the point too--and remember it. I'll bet not.

Why bother? As long as you're the Lit bitch and Obama is president, I'd rather waste my liver away. My choice.

At least I'll have a comfortable buzz along the way.

Hey, I started a thread in your honor, BTW.

"Editor".

 

[sr71plt]

Not a traitor among them

There are conflicting (surprise!) stories on the origin of "eggs Benedict," but they all seem to involve some ritzy restaurant and someone named Benedict (not Arnold, however, so no treachery involved). The one that Kipfer pushes is the story of one Mrs. Le Grand Benedict who thought the breakfast menu at New York's Delmonico's restaurant was bland and requested the concoction be whipped up that eventually became that pride of Delmonico's morning.

That reminds me of the time my parents took my wife and me to the Holmenkollen Park Hotel restaurant on the mountain above the Holmenkollen ski jump (venue of the Winter Olympics sometime in the distant past) outside Oslo, Norway, for a taste of reindeer steaks. As we were leaving, the matre'd accosted us and asked us for the recipe for Thousand Island dressing, because some obnoxious American tourist was insisting on having it on her salad. After hemming and hawing, we came up with combining chopped hard-boiled eggs and pickle relish in mayonaise with a touch of tomato sauce. When we got back to my parents house, we tried whipping it up. It was awful. But the restaurant subsequently put it on their menu as a dressing choice.

While the subject is eggs, Kipfer informs that an egg cream is composed of neither eggs nor cream--it combines chocolate syrup, milk, and soda water. Wiki reports that the origin might be an over-time collapse of "chocolate A cream" into egg cream.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Thanks for that. Interesting.

 

[_Lynn_]

There are conflicting (surprise!) stories on the origin of "eggs Benedict," but they all seem to involve some ritzy restaurant and someone named Benedict (not Arnold, however, so no treachery involved). The one that Kipfer pushes is the story of one Mrs. Le Grand Benedict who thought the breakfast menu at New York's Delmonico's restaurant was bland and requested the concoction be whipped up that eventually became that pride of Delmonico's morning.

That reminds me of the time my parents took my wife and me to the Holmenkollen Park Hotel restaurant on the mountain above the Holmenkollen ski jump (venue of the Winter Olympics sometime in the distant past) outside Oslo, Norway, for a taste of reindeer steaks. As we were leaving, the matre'd accosted us and asked us for the recipe for Thousand Island dressing, because some obnoxious American tourist was insisting on having it on her salad. After hemming and hawing, we came up with combining chopped hard-boiled eggs and pickle relish in mayonaise with a touch of tomato sauce. When we got back to my parents house, we tried whipping it up. It was awful. But the restaurant subsequently put it on their menu as a dressing choice.

While the subject is eggs, Kipfer informs that an egg cream is composed of neither eggs nor cream--it combines chocolate syrup, milk, and soda water. Wiki reports that the origin might be an over-time collapse of "chocolate A cream" into egg cream.

I'm not sure which sounds worse: reindeer steaks or the Thousand Island dressing concoction.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm not sure which sounds worse: reindeer steaks or the Thousand Island dressing concoction.

I wasn't impressed with the reindeer steaks, either.

 

[sr71plt]

In keeping with the recent Repub primary campaign

"Throw your hat in the ring" was from early boxing days when locals could enter a boxing match by throwing their hat in the ring.

 

[sr71plt]

Speaking of nonconsent

The term "best man"originated in Scotland, where grooms enlisted the help of the toughest and bravest friend they had, to kidnap reluctant brides--and then, I guess, stay around until the contract was sealed in case the bride could out-box the groom.

 

[sr71plt]

Tubing

The TV as a tube gives rise to both "boob tube," reportedly originating in a mid 1970s soap opera/TV commerical parodying the popularity of TV, and "couch potato," originating in the late 1970s, in which "potato" as a "tuber" is a pun for a TV set. In neither case was the TV watcher being celebrated.

 

[sr71plt]

Made IN bed is more interesting

We "make a bed" instead of using another verb because beds once had to literally be made anew every night with fresh straw.

 

[mynameisben]

We "make a bed" instead of using another verb because beds once had to literally be made anew every night with fresh straw.

My parents used to love telling this baffler to me: "The children are a foot by day and a bed by night."

WTF???

 

[sr71plt]

This one thanks to Zeb's misunderstanding

"It beggars description" is a term originating in(or at least popularized by) Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and means "to exceed the limits, resources, or capabilities of" (in Shakespeare's term, "of beauty")

 

[Ldy_Sea]

Drive on Parkways and park on driveways

There is actually a reason for this. According to a book entitled was Why Cowboy Boots have heels Driveways were named before horseless carriages. They were only found on estates of the wealthy and ran around the house and into a Carriage house. So you had to drive way around the house to park your carriage.

Parkways were originally roads running through parks.

So today we still drive n parkways and park in driveways.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

Sailors call bathrooms heads for a simple reason.

In the days of sailing ships Sailors went to the head of the ship to relieve themselves. This was because as the wind blew over the deck, it was moving faster than the ship so the smell and waste was blown away from the ship.