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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 11:46:26 GMT -5
Up and awake. I was going to put this on Facebook, but figured I just put it here instead. Caveat is a noun. It has always been a noun. It will never be a verb. Stop using it as a verb. OK, I feel better. How does one even make it a verb? (I almost said "how does one verb caveat?" Yeah, I just verbed verb. Aaahhh, I did it again!!!!!!!!!!I'm infected!) I'll hear folks make a point, and then say, "Let me caveat off that..." Ugh. If someone were to say, "Let me qualify what I just said," I think I'd stand up and shout, "Yeah!!!"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 11:48:27 GMT -5
Actually, caveat is a verb--in Latin, as in the phrase "caveat emptor," "let the buyer beware." (Its cousin is "cave canem"--"beware of the dog.") So a caveat (noun) is a shortened nominalization of a Latin independent clause. Yes, but might I point out that people who use caveat as a verb while speaking or writing English just might not be all that well versed in Latin? That's a guess.
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Post by majorminor on Oct 23, 2021 12:00:46 GMT -5
I was going to mention this earlier but was eager to get down to my shop. Now I'm on a break. Leon is playing a rather rare Gibson CF-100, Basically a fancy cutaway LG model made between 1950 and 1959.
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Post by Dub on Oct 23, 2021 12:06:19 GMT -5
I was going to mention this earlier but was eager to get down to my shop. Now I'm on a break. Leon is playing a rather rare Gibson CF-100, Basically a fancy cutaway LG model made between 1950 and 1959. Nice. The first couple of times I saw Leon were at Chicago’s Quiet Knight on Belmont. He was dressed in denim as a railroad brakeman and was playing a Harmony Sovereign with what appeared to be black triangles drawn in magic marker around the rosette. Sounded great.
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Post by John B on Oct 23, 2021 12:28:14 GMT -5
I had a CF-100E (with the pickup) for a couple of years - fun, but the action was a little too high, and it needed a neck reset. Marty - you can imagine how difficult it would be do do a cosmetically-invisible reset on one of those. The top had been horribly refinished, and at one point a previous owner relocated the pickup below the soundhole (drilling some holes in the X-braces in the process). But boy, it sounded great. I probably shouldn't have sold it.
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Post by david on Oct 23, 2021 12:42:10 GMT -5
Big day behind: Ate my last of the season, home grown tomato on a ham sammy for lunch and later treated myself to a steak for dinner.
Big day ahead: Haircut, 2nd shingles shot, play guitar. I can slowly make it through Josh Turner's "Introduction" on 6 string without using fingerpicks. But playing it on my 12 string with fingerpicks is still a mess.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 23, 2021 12:49:22 GMT -5
Nominalization, verbing (aka denominalization), back-formation, adoption/adaptation, and other mechanisms have been building the English vocabulary for approximately forever. As grating as caveat-as-a-verb is, it's just another example of how the language builds. English teachers have been grinding their teeth down to nubs over this stuff since Chaucer was in nappies.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."--James D. Nicoll
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Post by Hobson on Oct 23, 2021 13:22:18 GMT -5
I'm in. Got an appointment for the Moderna booster on Monday. Fry's (Kroger) one mile from our house. Pancakes have been eaten, towels have been washed, choir music has been practiced, walk has been walked.
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Post by Cornflake on Oct 23, 2021 14:55:39 GMT -5
Nominalization, verbing (aka denominalization), back-formation, adoption/adaptation, and other mechanisms have been building the English vocabulary for approximately forever. As grating as caveat-as-a-verb is, it's just another example of how the language builds. English teachers have been grinding their teeth down to nubs over this stuff since Chaucer was in nappies. "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."--James D. Nicoll Russell, you're right, and I've known it for years. All the same, some innovations make me wince
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Post by aquaduct on Oct 23, 2021 16:47:23 GMT -5
Up and awake. I was going to put this on Facebook, but figured I just put it here instead. Caveat is a noun. It has always been a noun. It will never be a verb. Stop using it as a verb. OK, I feel better. I always avoid such tension by simply swearing like a drunk sailor. Makes it tough to delineate the actual parts of speech and the historical origins.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 17:02:18 GMT -5
Up and awake. I was going to put this on Facebook, but figured I just put it here instead. Caveat is a noun. It has always been a noun. It will never be a verb. Stop using it as a verb. OK, I feel better. I always avoid such tension by simply swearing like a drunk sailor. Makes it tough to delineate the actual parts of speech and the historical origins. This is my excuse. www.sciencealert.com/swearing-is-a-sign-of-more-intelligence-not-less-say-scientists
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2021 17:24:52 GMT -5
Getting both the shingles and flu shots at the same time was a strategic error. I was sick all night with a cough,fever, headache, body aches, the whole Shebang. Ok now after two Excedrin.
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 23, 2021 17:38:49 GMT -5
Once mine, I think the guy who bought it still has it.
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Post by Marty on Oct 23, 2021 18:32:59 GMT -5
Once mine, I think the guy who bought it still has it. While I've never seen the production numbers the guitar is not that common. I myself have only laid eyes on 2 in all my guitar repairing years and they were both the electric version. The price point would have been higher than the LG-3 of the same year.
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Post by Cornflake on Oct 23, 2021 19:17:45 GMT -5
The chili I'm making with the chiles I bought in New Mexico is closing in on done. Darned tasty if I do say so. I'd have added more chiles if it were just me but my other eaters would not be happy. Make it fairly mild, let those who want it hotter add hot sauce.
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