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#21 User is offline   the hog 

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Posted 2011-July-10, 04:22

View PostMbodell, on 2011-July-10, 01:31, said:

Continuing the off-topic, begging the question now means prompting the question (as well as the traditional meaning of assuming the answer in the argument). Prescriptive grammarians can cringe, but language evolves over time.


I don't think it does. Perhaps the term is misused in that context, but nevertheless that is not its correct meaning.
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Posted 2011-July-10, 09:48

View PostMbodell, on 2011-July-10, 01:31, said:

Continuing the off-topic, begging the question now means prompting the question (as well as the traditional meaning of assuming the answer in the argument). Prescriptive grammarians can cringe, but language evolves over time.


I don't agree with the first sentence. The real meaning of the phrase is very difficult to express any other way. Is it really inevitable to lose a useful, efficient phrase to express something that can be expressed in quite a few different ways?

When does one decide that an error is an alternative usage? Do we have to start accepting any number of spellings of "definite", "lead" when the meaning is "led", and all possible variant uses of "its" and "it's"? I don't think there should be an Académie anglais, but I also don't think that "anything goes" is the right approach.
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Posted 2011-July-10, 10:36

Continuing the off-topic extravaganza bonanza, "their is noting wrong" gets 1,460 hits in google, in double quotes with that exact spelling, even though there is nothing wrong with it
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Posted 2011-July-10, 12:10

Great, the idiom police.

I sympathize, because the phrase, "I could care less" has the same effect on me.
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Posted 2011-July-10, 12:14

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Posted 2011-July-10, 17:22

I thought the title of the thread would lead to an interesting read then it lead, led, thud to this?
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Posted 2011-July-31, 16:38

View Postggwhiz, on 2011-July-10, 17:22, said:

I thought the title of the thread would lead to an interesting read then it lead, led, thud to this?

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Posted 2011-August-01, 15:22

IMHO the Monaco team is a very deserving champion of the Spingold and Fantoni-Nunes play a fascinating system. Nickell has one of the best bridge pairs around in Meckwell but his team needed ghastly misplays by their opponents in three different rounds just to get to the final. Monaco asserted themselves in the final and just took over after the half.
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Posted 2011-August-01, 18:53

View PostFoxx, on 2011-August-01, 15:22, said:

IMHO the Monaco team is a very deserving champion of the Spingold and Fantoni-Nunes play a fascinating system. Nickell has one of the best bridge pairs around in Meckwell but his team needed ghastly misplays by their opponents in three different rounds just to get to the final. Monaco asserted themselves in the final and just took over after the half.
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Posted 2011-August-01, 21:53

I'll try to get this topic back on track. Frank (Nick) Nickell realized that Hamman-Zia didn't make a good pair, and he looked around to find the best USA pair to fix his dry run. Levin-Weinstein fit that bill; I would actually take them over Meckwell since May 2010. Martin Fleisher was able to grab Rosenberg-Willenken, who I think is an up and coming pair. Bob Hamman is partnering Bart Bramley on team Blanchard (father Bob - son Shane), along with Hurd-Woolridge (playing on USA 2 for the Bermuda Bowl). Zia seems to be alone at the moment.

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Posted 2011-August-01, 22:43

View Postchasetb, on 2011-August-01, 21:53, said:

I'll try to get this topic back on track. Frank (Nick) Nickell realized that Hamman-Zia didn't make a good pair, and he looked around to find the best USA pair to fix his dry run. Levin-Weinstein fit that bill; I would actually take them over Meckwell since May 2010. Martin Fleisher was able to grab Rosenberg-Willenken, who I think is an up and coming pair. Bob Hamman is partnering Bart Bramley on team Blanchard (father Bob - son Shane), along with Hurd-Woolridge (playing on USA 2 for the Bermuda Bowl). Zia seems to be alone at the moment.

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btw I think Bob and Bart may even work at same place ....in any event they live next to each other......Justin will Know much more on this subject.
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Posted 2011-August-02, 08:12

View Postmike777, on 2011-August-01, 22:43, said:

btw I think Bob and Bart may even work at same place ....in any event they live next to each other......Justin will Know much more on this subject.


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Posted 2011-August-02, 09:47

"Bob Hamman is partnering Bart Bramley...
Zia seems to be alone at the moment"

would be more than logical when Zia partners Welland now, who played the last events with Bramley - since Zia and Roy often play together in various events
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