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#11
RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 12:18 am (This post was last modified: August 15, 2019 at 12:20 am by GrandizerII.)
It's = it is

Its is the possessive pronoun. Consider the other possessive pronouns as reference. Do they contain apostrophes? No. Same with its then.
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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 12:31 am (This post was last modified: August 15, 2019 at 12:31 am by LadyForCamus.)
I hate it when people use “begs the question” when they mean, “this brings up the question”. That’s not what it means.
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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 12:38 am
(August 15, 2019 at 12:31 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: I hate it when people use “begs the question” when they mean, “this brings up the question”. That’s not what it means.

Yeah that one as well.
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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 3:31 am (This post was last modified: August 15, 2019 at 3:31 am by Peebothuhlu.)
(August 14, 2019 at 11:02 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(August 14, 2019 at 10:39 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: It really bugs me when people call Native Americans "Indians." All of the harmful aspects of that seemingly subtle "mistake" aside, they're not from fucking India. How hard is that for people to grasp?

White man being speaking with fork tongue, isn’t it?





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(August 14, 2019 at 11:39 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Elaborate.

That's where it came from. Wink
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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 4:44 am
People will insist on calling it 'The Bayeux Tapestry'.  It's not a tapestry. It's an embroidery.

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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 5:00 am
(August 15, 2019 at 3:31 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote:
(August 14, 2019 at 11:02 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: White man being speaking with fork tongue, isn’t it?





 And yow can be my Cow-girl.

Oh Ted.

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(August 14, 2019 at 11:39 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Elaborate.

That's where it came from. Wink

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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 5:22 am
'Hot water heater'.  It's a water heater.  You're heating water, not heating hot water.

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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 7:30 am (This post was last modified: August 15, 2019 at 7:34 am by onlinebiker.)
"ATM machine" is a redundancy.
(August 15, 2019 at 5:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'Hot water heater'.  It's a water heater.  You're heating water, not heating hot water.

Boru

I had a solar panel on the roof that fed into the water heater.

The water in the pipe in the solar panel would reach 190f on a sunny day - but the heater only heated to 125f.

So in effect the water heater was actually a hot water cooler.


Go figure.
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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 8:24 am
(August 14, 2019 at 8:42 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: We seem to like to split hairs.

Post your nits you pick here.

I'll start.


What we call "parallel parking" isn't.

If you use the standards of engineering (especially electrical) it should be called "series parking".

What you do in a big parking lot is parallel parking. Unless you consider more than one row - and then it's series parallel.


Think

Yes it is. You're parking parallel to the flow of traffic.
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RE: Technically speaking
August 15, 2019 at 11:42 am
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