Comments on: Some few needless words http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/07/13/some-few-needless-words/ I write, therefore I drink tea Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:30:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Reed http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/07/13/some-few-needless-words/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Reed Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:28:07 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=32#comment-122 Ed - I am very much looking forward to even so much as half a chance to spit on your syntax in revenge. It helps not that you are correct. I burn in shame. I just wish, if the world IS going to end, that it'd get on with it. It's this death-of-a-thousand-cuts that gets rather wearying. Ed – I am very much looking forward to even so much as half a chance to spit on your syntax in revenge. It helps not that you are correct. I burn in shame.

I just wish, if the world IS going to end, that it’d get on with it. It’s this death-of-a-thousand-cuts that gets rather wearying.

]]> By: Ed http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/07/13/some-few-needless-words/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Ed Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:15:15 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=32#comment-119 The IRA killed FEWER than 100, not less than. Standards, Reed, even in the face of atrocity. I am now officially like my Mum, who tutted while reading a report of the Rwandan genocide and said, "they've split an infinitive". In the sentence that offends you (and me), I think the offensive bit is the "even". Without that I'd have thought it journalistic licence - how else to bring it home to a UK audience? 7/7 is indeed, thankfully, our most "comparable" event in recent years. But the "even" belittles the Indian events. Anyway, Mumbai or no Mumbai, the world seems to be ending, I give up. I really do. The IRA killed FEWER than 100, not less than. Standards, Reed, even in the face of atrocity.
I am now officially like my Mum, who tutted while reading a report of the Rwandan genocide and said, “they’ve split an infinitive”.
In the sentence that offends you (and me), I think the offensive bit is the “even”. Without that I’d have thought it journalistic licence – how else to bring it home to a UK audience? 7/7 is indeed, thankfully, our most “comparable” event in recent years. But the “even” belittles the Indian events.
Anyway, Mumbai or no Mumbai, the world seems to be ending, I give up. I really do.

]]> By: Aphra Behn http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/07/13/some-few-needless-words/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Aphra Behn Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:56:24 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=32#comment-113 >> , mindlessly accepting the (horribly, not-uncommon) British bias in which one of ‘us’ is worth four of ‘them’ You are so right, my dear. Thank you for putting it into words. >> , mindlessly accepting the (horribly, not-uncommon) British bias in which one of ‘us’ is worth four of ‘them’

You are so right, my dear. Thank you for putting it into words.

]]> By: David B, Singing Librarian http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/07/13/some-few-needless-words/comment-page-1/#comment-111 David B, Singing Librarian Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:10:20 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=32#comment-111 Well said. Very well said. Well said. Very well said.

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