At the risk of opening up a large sub-section, footballers who describe themselves as futblahs It's not as if they shorten every word out of laziness though. They love playing at Wemberlee after all!
Ian Wright commencing every utterance with "In respex of" and every word that passes Martin Keown's lips are also red rags to this bull.
I had thought someone would come up with its life story - a poor lonely orphaned thing, kicked out by its temporary carers, finding its feet trudging around the world and not knowing where its true roots were, slowly realising where it really belonged and then the trials and tribulations of working its way back - but 'a wet dream'? That's it? It is that?
How many times will it be coming home this week (until Thursday morning) eh? It'll be exhausted.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
I know I'm in the wrong here but I dislike 'data' being used as the plural it is in its base language. I worked in IT all my life and dealt with databases (other forms of data storage are available) and data manipulation and all but no one ever used data as a plural. The data's bad... the data's good...the data shows.
I'm now trying to think if I do that with all collective nouns as well - the flock is in the field, the herd lays down, the shoal swims upstream. Maybe I see data as a collective for all those bits and bytes. It is not the data are showing....Nooooooo, not to me. Isn't it just posy pretention to show you know Latin (or is it Greek - or would that be datae?)?
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Ian Wright commencing every utterance with "In respex of" and every word that passes Martin Keown's lips are also red rags to this bull.
Super ill!!!!
– George Orwell