What's Up With the Use of the Word Codes.
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Mine was when the school secretary always used to say over the speaker system: "Please bring your monies as soon as possible..." - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) "The sort of guy who'd give the kid an extra scoop of ice cream free if he was an ice-cream man" - Nish, on Chris Maunder
Jason Hooper wrote: "Please bring your monies as soon as possible..." It sounds kinda funny, but it actually makes sense to me. Since "you" refers to multiple people (plural) and monies is the plural of money, then it's correct. Regards, Alvaro Kinda hard to sign my name without anything to write with. Oh well.
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My fav is when people say, "Visual Basics." Drives me off the wall. Jason Gerard
I hate when people say "32 bits" as in "32 bits Operating system". Drives me nuts. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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I have noticed in the last few years that many people refer to 'codes' instead of 'code' e.g. 'show me your codes' or 'post your codes'.What's up with that? Where did it come from? It disturbs me. Joel
CNN (and other clueless media :() are likely to blame for that. "Thieves stole the computer codes to parts of Microsoft's Windows operating system...". Sheeeesh... /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com
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Michael Dunn wrote: such as "affect" vs. "effect" or "insure" vs. "ensure" which are slowly becoming the same thing because so many people mix them up. I can insure you that misuse of words has no affect on the language. By the way, I need to ensure my car, becuase it might effect somebody if I hit them. ;P No generalization is 100% true. Not even this one.
Navin wrote: I can insure you that misuse of words has no affect on the language. By the way, I need to ensure my car, becuase it might effect somebody if I hit them. I hear you can loose a lot of money that way. (lose vs. loose is high on my pet hates list :mad: Who started it? It's wrong! Completely wrong! Stop it!)
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