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To: garjog

I suffer from Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome (GPS). I object to the use of ‘there” to mean “their” or “they’re,” and I refuse to use words such as “prequel” (the correct term is “antecedent” or “precursor”).


45 posted on 07/28/2012 10:05:06 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Fiji Hill

What about proactive in place of... GASP! anticipatory?


47 posted on 07/28/2012 10:06:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Fiji Hill

> . . . I refuse to use words such as “prequel” . . .

pre·quel [pree-kwuhl

noun

a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a
later work, as by portraying the same characters at a
younger age.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prequel


49 posted on 07/28/2012 10:12:11 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Fiji Hill
I refuse to use words such as “prequel”

We should do lunch sometime. Where do you office?

(How do you like those two sentences?)

90 posted on 07/29/2012 1:46:28 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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