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Re: Potential problem with Net Transport downloads - 2 attachments
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:31:37 +1200
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 05:32:54 -0700 (PDT), PDC <mhahstadt@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>On Aug 2, 7:36 pm, Lukagain Cos ThistleBounce
><BTol...@ThistleBounce.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 13:20:33 -0700 (PDT), PDC <mhahst...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Are you getting these same sad outcomes when you try other sites..? ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:05:14 +0100
In article <ouoo841mq8e30qrgmejf3jbgh4a02jk9mt@4ax.com>, on Sun, 27 Jul
2008, Alan Hope <usenet.identity@gmail.com> wrote
[]
>>Yes, the full OED sometimes has "considered incorrect" or similar. Most
>>dictionaries do indeed just _record_ usage.
>
>Not only that, they record usage as it was 5, 10 or even more ye ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:52:59 -0700 (PDT)
On 27 Jul, 22:20, Hugh Oxford <ares...@fas.com> wrote:
> 1Z wrote:
> > ...and there you go again. "Change" has to be "defended"
> > against because it is *never* improvement...
>
> Of course change in language can be good and healthy, and novel uses for
> words or new words and phrases that are useful to deal ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:54:51 -0700 (PDT)
On 27 Jul, 09:57, Hugh Oxford <ares...@fas.com> wrote:
> JF wrote:
> > In message <488b3910$0$26078$db0fe...@news.zen.co.uk>, Hugh Oxford
> > <ares...@fas.com> writes
>
> >> It's an interesting question - if enough people misuse a word such
> >> that its meaning changes, are they wrong? My understanding of decim ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:08:51 +0100
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <junk@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In article <488B179F.6D016174@tesco.net>, on Sat, 26 Jul 2008,
> Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2@tesco.net> wrote
> []
>>Also, the definition of 'decimate' is not defined in the OED. The word
>>might be, but the definition of the word isn't. ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:38:51 +0100
In article <488B179F.6D016174@tesco.net>, on Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Frederick
Williams <frederick.williams2@tesco.net> wrote
[]
>Also, the definition of 'decimate' is not defined in the OED. The word
>might be, but the definition of the word isn't. Note also that
(Well said, but prepare for brickbats! It's like " ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:08:53 +0100
In message <488b3910$0$26078$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>, Hugh Oxford
<arestes@fas.com> writes
>It's an interesting question - if enough people misuse a word such that
>its meaning changes, are they wrong? My understanding of decimate is
>that it means to reduce by one tenth, but most people use it to mean
>re ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:25:03 +0100
JF wrote:
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> [...] I
> use the modern definition of 'decimate' as defined in the Oxford English
> Dictionary which is a 'substantial reduction'. [...]
Referring to the 1993 edition of the Shorter (I do not have ready access
to any other): the most modern definition is from the mid seventeenth
century and re ...
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Aldershot transmitter (92.5 FM)
26 Jul 2008 07:45:12 GMT
Aldershot transmitter seemed to go off the air about 18:40 on Friday
(partway through the Now Show). It's still off the air now (Saturday
morning). Can't find anything online about this.
--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] ...
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Re: "Such a vibrant, liberal city! I'M LOVING IT"
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:15:17 +0100
Rect:
Aircraftman Ross. He was later Private Shaw. ...
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