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Re: The Nights
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:49 pm
by fairy nuff
Booby Trapper wrote:
I stand corrected. It would seem it's a common mistake and myself and Claymore have made it.
From the Oxford English
:
Pedant mode - should that not read "It's a common mistake and
Claymore and I have made it" ?
Re: The Nights
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:56 pm
by marisca
Glad to have been of service. Now, has anyone noticed is getting light later in the mornings?
Re: The Nights
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:35 pm
by claymore
Actually, I do believe I was correct because when I read the post, I clearly picked up the inference. You just need to be a bit bi-polar or on some spectrum or other. Dear Heart believes all men are on the spectrum - especially ones who frequent forums such as this....
Re: The Nights
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:54 pm
by sahona
Booby Trapper wrote:marisca wrote:[I regret that quoting a dubious internet source from an ex-colony that has managed to boldly* mangle the English language, grammar and spelling does not prove anything. Claymore is of an age and education where he should know the difference and I expect is abjectly ashamed of his error.
*deliberate!
I stand corrected. It would seem it's a common mistake and myself and Claymore have made it.
From the Oxford English
"
There is a distinction in meaning between infer and imply. In the sentence the speaker implied that the General had been a traitor, implied means that the speaker subtly suggested that this man was a traitor (though nothing so explicit was actually stated). However, in we inferred from his words that the General had been a traitor, inferred means that something in the speaker’s words enabled the listeners to deduce that the man was a traitor. The two words infer and imply can describe the same event, but from different angles. Use of infer to mean imply, as in are you inferring that I’m a liar? (instead of are you implying that I’m a liar?), is an extremely common error."
I thought a 'comms' man would know. One is TD the other is RD . Back to basics.
You learn something every day
Re: The Nights
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:03 pm
by claymore
Hi Bill
Internet cafe somewhere off the west coast?
Re: The Nights
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:18 am
by sahona
Kerrera / Oban pontoon. Best Wi-Fi yet encountered. makes you forget about the showers...
Tonight Loch Aline we think.
It's raining.
Re: The Nights
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:37 am
by wully
I'm sure my smugness at having a deck saloon boat with a wee wheel to steer with is one of my many character defects
Re: The Nights
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:33 am
by sahona
Moi-aussi.
Great to watch an elegant, V expensive Halberg Rassy powering down the sound, with a wee drookit man at the back.
Re: The Nights
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:45 pm
by ubergeekian
sahona wrote:
Great to watch an elegant, V expensive Halberg Rassy powering down the sound, with a wee drookit man at the back.
I love wee portlight on the front surface of the Victoria 26 coachroof. You can keep a nice lookout from inside while the windvane or the tiller pilot does the work ...