I can't take it anymore. (meaning, sentence, paragraph, quote)
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When I see an asterisk in a sentence or in the body of a document, I immediately look to the bottom of the page to see what the notation is...and frequently there is none. Why use the * then?
" So this kid was just wondering around the airport??"
No, he'd clearly done his "wondering" well in advance of his actual adventure... (in regard to the nine-year-old who flew unaccompanied by adults or ticket or security clearance from Minneapolis to Las Vegas).
"Driving from California to Alaska - Canada Boarder?"
"...stories about going through the Canadian boarder when moving from the lower 48 to AK."
Although it is certainly not funny, this mistake reminds me of something that I used to encounter in written reports from caseworkers at my state's child welfare agency. When discussing, "boarder babies"-- who are waifs that are kept in hospitals for the long- term, simply because there is no other place to house them--many times the caseworkers would refer to them as, "border babies". I was always tempted to ask for details regarding the border that they may have crossed, but I knew that this question would be met with blank stares, so I avoided asking.
And, as a similar homonym mix-up, I can recall on several car maintenance invoices that there was a notation along the lines of, "customer has requested a loner car". All I wanted was a car to get me around for the day while my car was being serviced, and I did not really care about the car's social habits.
a loner car". All I wanted was a car to get me around for the day while my car was being serviced, and I did not really care about the car's social habits.
That's a really good one. I'm still laughing as I picture the fairy carrying the person to Vermont.
But I came in here for the sake of sanity because I just saw a post about wearing glasses and someone has "an astigmatism." Do they also have "a nearsightedness"?
But I came in here for the sake of sanity because I just saw a post about wearing glasses and someone has "an astigmatism." Do they also have "a nearsightedness"?
In addition to those ocular conditions, I wonder if that person also has, "THE flu".
A person might experience a heart attack...or have a stroke...or suffer from gastric upset...or contract gonorrhea...or suffer from sinusitis...or simply have a cold, but if those same people contract influenza, for some reason that I have never been able to fathom, it is apparently required that, "the", is inserted before the colloquial term for influenza.
When I was about 11 years old, my mother corrected me when I referred to, "the flu", but apparently most other folks were never set straight about this terminology.
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