22 Sep
2010
22 Sep
'10
4:05 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:03:29PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
> > Somehow, the absolute basics of even working
with threaded fasteners have
...
In 30 years of college "professorship", I have seen obvious changes in
college students.
It used to be that I could start my OS class with "DOS est omnis divisa in
That was a terrible pun you sneaky man.
partes tres" and at least some of the class would
understand the phrase
and the analogy.
I translated it fine with my rusty Latin, but it took me a while to
catch the bad pun.
Is the reduction in ability to spell, or differentiate homonyms, related?
I made a license plate frame that says "UC Berkeley Aluminum" (I also
made a slightly variant one in case I ever have another British car)
You have seen the eggcorn database I hope?
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net
Language change is inevitable. Otherwise we would still be using
Old English. What I think has changed is we have lost the kite tail
of the written book..
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