Posts by David Slack
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Public Address Radio note:
We talk to Janet about the See Here project tomorrow afternoon at 5.00 pm, Radio Live.
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*Exponentially*.
How does it rate against the Aristocrats?
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Anyway, shouldn’t a small fact be a factette?
How about a Fact McNugget?
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People also often desire to colour and emphasise their language - saying "absolutely"
I agree. I do it myself. My objection is to its use when it's plain from the context that the speaker is simply confirming or agreeing, and no emphasis or intensifier is intended.
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Favourite linguistic bugbear: People (mis)using the phrase "hoist by his/her/their own petard" in such a way that it's clear they have no idea what a petard is, or what it means to be hoist by one.
But only a chosen few have the chance to do it in a Herald editorial
Maori have reminded the bridge managers that they readily hoisted the Team NZ petard during the America's Cup.
UPDATE: And now that I go to look: do we not owe you a debt of gratitude for noticing this at the time, Josh?
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At the risk of pissing monsieur slack off - absolutely.
That's literally heinous, Jackie. I think you know it too, girlfriend. At the end of the day, it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.
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On a fairly different note I saw a T-Shirt at Victoria Park Markets earlier today that simply said
"I shaved my balls for this?".My favorite for the year remains Martin W's "The Pope touched me Down Under".
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Foremost amongst the many language crimes perpetrated by sports commentators ...
They might also like to consider reinstating the verb 'to be' instead of phrasing every sentence as though it's a photo caption. If they edited the word 'obviously' from every sports hero's interview utterances, they'd still have ample spare bulletin time for the words 'are' and 'is'.
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I loath it when "average" is used wrongly to signify poor, mediocre, appalling, bad, etc. Sports commentators are especially bad with this.
I do quite like the black-singleted understatement of 'pretty fucking average'.
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They can be merciless X holes, but they're mighty smart.