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lederhosen) wrote2005-07-11 11:22 pm
lederhosen) wrote2005-07-11 11:22 pm
Niggles, pt. 2
I knew I'd forgotten some...
4. If you are exposing something, you 'bare' it. If you're putting up with it, carrying it, or just about anything else, including grinning-and-etc, you 'bear' it.
5. A large pile of treasure is a 'hoard'. A large pile of Vikings - or indeed Mongols, Visigoths, Huns, Orcs, Chaos Warriors, or sysadmins - is a 'horde'. To help remember the difference: pirates go "ARRR!" when they find treasure, peasants go "EEEE!" when they see Vikings approaching.
6. That mischievous lass stealing your wallet is a 'rogue'. The makeup she applies to her face is 'rouge'. Do not confuse the two. Not even as deliberate irony, because it's been done to death already.
7. I love helping people with mathematical problems. Really I do. But if you come to me asking "if I add two numbers together and then square the result, is that the same as squaring each of the numbers and then adding them together?", and you already hold a science-related degree, I reserve the right to weep tears of blood after you leave.
- Apropos of nothing in particular, when did people stop pronouncing "Los Angeles" with a hard 'g' (like 'angle')? I noticed American actors doing this in an old Hitchcock movie tonight and it threw me, because I don't think I've ever heard it IRL.
4. If you are exposing something, you 'bare' it. If you're putting up with it, carrying it, or just about anything else, including grinning-and-etc, you 'bear' it.
5. A large pile of treasure is a 'hoard'. A large pile of Vikings - or indeed Mongols, Visigoths, Huns, Orcs, Chaos Warriors, or sysadmins - is a 'horde'. To help remember the difference: pirates go "ARRR!" when they find treasure, peasants go "EEEE!" when they see Vikings approaching.
6. That mischievous lass stealing your wallet is a 'rogue'. The makeup she applies to her face is 'rouge'. Do not confuse the two. Not even as deliberate irony, because it's been done to death already.
7. I love helping people with mathematical problems. Really I do. But if you come to me asking "if I add two numbers together and then square the result, is that the same as squaring each of the numbers and then adding them together?", and you already hold a science-related degree, I reserve the right to weep tears of blood after you leave.
- Apropos of nothing in particular, when did people stop pronouncing "Los Angeles" with a hard 'g' (like 'angle')? I noticed American actors doing this in an old Hitchcock movie tonight and it threw me, because I don't think I've ever heard it IRL.