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#101
10-14-2005, 05:40 PM
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Re: Sayings that people totally butcher.....
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"Acrost." - my mother-in-law [/ QUOTE ] My father used to work in radio. When he had to edit town interviews, he would go to great pains to remove the "t" from this work. (this is back when you were actually cutting tape). 
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#102
10-14-2005, 05:40 PM
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Re: Sayings that people totally butcher.....
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[ QUOTE ] You still playing weekly? I haven't seen any emails in the last couple/few weeks. [/ QUOTE ] not every week, we've had a couple sporadic games. i lost my original email list and had to redo it - might've forgot you, i'll check it monday. we better be careful - this is bordering on flat-out p*ker content in OOT. [/ QUOTE ] I thought we were talking about circle-jerking. My bad.
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#103
10-14-2005, 06:17 PM
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begs the question [/ QUOTE ] BAM! I see this misused every day and it bugs the [censored] out of me.
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#104
10-14-2005, 06:36 PM
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Re: Sayings that people totally butcher.....
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The exception proves the rule. --no you dipshit, if you find a counterexample to the rule, it isn't valid. [/ QUOTE ] This proverb has a legal sense -- an exception being made demonstrates that a rule exists. The latin for this legal meaning is exceptio probat regulam (in casibus non exceptis). I've seen some mention in science journals that suggest that "proves" in the proverb should be "proofs", meaning "tests", but I think that's a folk etymology and the legal sense is the true origin. As for current use, however, this sense is useful: an exception helps define the scope of a rule. So I see three possible usages for this phrase: 1) Because we see an exception being made here, we know that in general that there is a rule. 2) This exception helps define the rule; we know the limits of the rule do not extend to this case. 3) This exception tests the rule, showing it to be false.
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#107
10-14-2005, 07:36 PM
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[ QUOTE ] begs the question [/ QUOTE ] BAM! I see this misused every day and it bugs the [censored] out of me. [/ QUOTE ] How is this one misused? Edit: Blar, I just asked roommate what he thought it meant. I now will take it as truth that most people don't know what this term means...I guess I never heard anyone misuse it (oddly).
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#108
10-14-2005, 08:05 PM
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begs the question [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] How is this one misused? [/ QUOTE ] "This year's budget deficit is half a trillion dollars. This begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?"
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