Posted on 03/16/2024 11:27:24 AM PDT by dennisw
16 Habits Of People Who Have Average Intelligence But Try To Seem Really Smart
Is this you or me???
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/16-habits-of-people-who-have-average-intelligence-but-try-to-seem-really-smart/ss-BB1ihiln?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=8ed56833122e4604893a308c5d21739c&ei=29
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“My English teacher, sister Agony, would rap my knuckles if I said “ofTen”.”
But she probably had no problem with other early modern holdovers like “vale” for “valley” in the Hail, Holy Queen - ahem!, in the Salve Regina - prayer.
You should have told her that “ofTen” was the Catholic pronunciation since the “T” was pronounced right up to the 17th century in English.
18. They block the Micro Soft News from their computer network.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuVPx9kC2Yk
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JUST WOW! At this man’s intelligence and expertise.
They think prepositions have subjects.
Everybody has done some of these or even all of these at some point in their life, even Hannah Acton.
Yes. I am with you there.
I only need one gauge to decide wether a person is worth my time and or worth his salt...
If he/she changes their attitude/body language/aura when the boss walks in the room or a popular person, then they aint worth af in my book. may as well just drop to their knees and perform oral on the person they shifted mode for. it’s thoroughly disgusting...
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We had a pastor that would come totally unglued when the local rich guy would walk in the church. The rest of us were chopped liver.
They pronounce “negotiate” as ne-go-see-ate.
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Good one!
“16 Habits Of People Who Have Average Intelligence But Try To Seem Really Smart”
17. Join MENSA and never shut up about it ...
I was just reading an article that made it sound like the terms data and datum have gotten a bit looser over the years. But yes - datum is a single point. Although I usually think of datum as the point used to base all of the other data off of (like a survey elevation datum).
That one article said that data is always plural. And then they gave numerous sentences as examples, including:
“The data from the experiment was inconclusive.”
With “was” being the singular form! I think it sounds better to the ear with “was” though. I don’t think it is that big of a deal.
“Aww don’t feel noways tired. I’ve come too faarrrrr from where I started frum.”
Yup. TL:DR
Was a load of crap
In Greek neuter plurals take a singular verb...so maybe the person who used "was" with "data" was just over-educated.
I have above-average intelligence but I try to seem really dumb.
People tell me I succeed.
The H in "history" is sounded because the first syllable is accented. But in "historic" the accent is on the second syllable, so both "an historic" and "a historic" have advocates.
Similarly with vehicle and vehicular. In "vehicular" the second syllable is accented so the H is pronounced, but in "vehicle" the accent is on the first syllable and some people would not pronounce the H in that word (VEE-ick-'l).
I think that’s exactly right, but somehow to me using “an” sounds snooty even if the second syllable is accented and the “h” is silent making it grammatically correct. Doing it the other way is also grammatically correct but sounds more natural to my ears.
And the irony is that the Canadian probably titled his book that way in order to sound more British...
I think the Canadian in question (now deceased) was born in Britain, probably in Scotland.
Okay, well that explains it then.
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