Has Anyone Else Famous Died Overnight ?

[mikey4444]

I am too frightened to turn the News on !

[Bathsheba]

Hands up all of people who read Clanad's post in its entirety? ;)

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[Mamyalynne]

erm

[Clanad]

So much for attempting to bathe the great unwashed...

[Bathsheba]

Bless ya for being a good sport Clanad ;) x x

Baths
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[Tilly2]

I read it! I like reading educational stuff.

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry Clanad - I have seen had a good spray with Zoflora ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

^^ I have since....

[maggiebee]

This thread seems to have "wandered" a little but just heard that Dan Haggerty who played Grizzly Adams has today died from cancer aged 74.

[mikey4444]

Sorry to hear that Maggie.

[Mamyalynne]

RIP Dan.

[Bathsheba]

I know! Such a shame....saw about it on Facebook, and I swear the photo used in article I saw was of Barry Gibb....:/

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[Peter Pedant]

what about a headline for today - erm getting back to the subject

"Twelve Dead in Burkina Faso - Not Many Well Known "

[jno]

I wonder if worldwide words has an agendum...

[Peter Pedant]

O dear red rag to a bull

yes I did read Clanads cont
thusly is used wrongly. thus is an adverb in [ British ] English and so should not have a post fix. Thusly is used in American E and looks really WEIRD to us brits [ like 'nite' and 'center' ]

Luckily I dont have to pluralise directrix or testatrix often. they are two words constantly upon my lips. Some plurals have a jargon context - matrices is used exclusively in math, and apices in dentistry

and er that is about it

[jno]

Thusly is used in American E

...and as Clanad is American, he is using it non-wrongly, yes?

[Peter Pedant]

it most certainly does- agendum I mean

a lotta books on logic have a bit on self - reference - polysyllabic is a polysyllablic word and so on. But you can also have 'all cretan are liars' said the famous Cretan Epimenes - and if he is lying then he is telling the troot etc.

and so can ya see what is coming ? - the wag mathematicians put in on page one

Corrigenda:
page 1 Corrigenda should be 'Corrigendum'

[ Honestly I heard someone ask if agendum exists as a word ]

[Peter Pedant]

Thusly is used in American E
...and as Clanad is American, he is using it non-wrongly, yes?

no I am sorry Jno you have to read the WHOLE of his post
not just a bit
and then you will see that he specifically mentions a long ref to get in "British English" and it is logically quite permissible ( even forcing ) to conclude that in this instance at least he is using erm British English

Honestly - if people read posts then they dont understand them

[jno]

he wasn't using British English (why should he?), he was just providing a link for those who do. For the rest, when not directly quoting, he was using his own native language, as is entirely proper.