Tieman Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 While many of you may have looked up earlier, having just received their e mail "mail shot" I thought I'd price things up for 1/2 term in October.The £350 return fair I was given is more than £100 higher (excluding BF owners club discount of 5% on that offer) than the P/mth-chbrg return both ways on N/die Exprss I booked on Sep 20 (and I think still available?). LD Lines dress the wording up as a promotional fair for the new route! I think they may have to try a little harder?Tieman (3 weeks and counting!)http://www.aferry.to/LD-Lines-ferry-ferries.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixietoadstool Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Oops Tieman - I think you may have misspelt your name there - but maybe your true feelings came across instead! Valerie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tieman Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 [quote]Oops Tieman - I think you may have misspelt your name there - but maybe your true feelings came across instead! Valerie[/quote]A Freudian slip of the finger (honest!) which I've now edited and have added tieman to the spellcheck! To ere is human.Tieman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Janet Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 If one is that caring about the language, perhaps one should punctuate more carefully. . . To err is human, to forgive is divine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tieman Posted September 29, 2005 Author Share Posted September 29, 2005 [quote]Please, when you write a quotation give it's fullness otherwise your purpose becomes meaningless. To err is human to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744). I'm not being a 'Smart Alec,...[/quote] I think you may have wrongly posted to this thread, please try:www.I'mnotapedantbut.com or www.Ishouldgetalife.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brilec Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 It should read,To err is human, to foul things up completely takes a computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 [quote]I think you may have wrongly posted to this thread, please try: www.I'mnotapedantbut.com or www.Ishouldgetalife.com[/quote]Tieman.If you are idle be not solitary.If you are solitary, be not idle.(Dr Johnson.27th October 1779) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I was still wondering what part of the rich tapestry of human existence was covered by the word 'ere'. Now I realise that it was a case of multiple irony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tieman Posted September 29, 2005 Author Share Posted September 29, 2005 [quote]I was still wondering what part of the rich tapestry of human existence was covered by the word 'ere'. Now I realise that it was a case of multiple irony.[/quote] DickNothing as complex, more a case of big fingers, small keys and no proof reading!Tieman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 "Nothing as complex, more a case of big fingers, small keys and no proof reading!"I think its the way they wire keyboards these days, and the trick of not displaying the typo until you press 'send'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 "I was still wondering what part of the rich tapestry of human existence was covered by the word 'ere'."Handy for palindrome games as inAble was I ere I saw Elba - attributed sometimes to a short, fat Frog I believe.Johnnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I am convinced that some words are only used in word games or puzzles - I had a genuine occasion (rather than a crossword puzzle )to use the word 'eft' the other day, now I'm waiting for the word 'ennui' to come up......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourangelle Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Oh I don't think I agree about this one, I think it has entered the language, we all know what comes next, the meaning isn't lost. It happens all the time with proverbs, it is just a sign of the language evolving. I think it is a case of cultural shared knowledge. I mean nobody leaps in and shouts Hamlet if somebody says "neither a borrower, nor a lender be". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tieman Posted September 30, 2005 Author Share Posted September 30, 2005 [quote]Oh I don't think I agree about this one, I think it has entered the language, we all know what comes next, the meaning isn't lost. It happens all the time with proverbs, it is just a sign of the lang...[/quote] Thanks, you've voiced almost exactly my nearly but not posted thoughts.In the end I just couldn't be arrsed to try dragging a pedantic, anal retentive, linguistically into the early part of the 21st century!Tieman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 [quote]Thanks, you've voiced almost exactly my nearly but not posted thoughts. In the end I just couldn't be arrsed to try dragging a pedantic, anal retentive, linguistically into the early part of the 21st...[/quote]Has this got some connection with the medical technics used to examine the male prostate gland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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