Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
The best way to describe "inopportune" is to think of one of those completely generic Hollywood action movies; "Die Hard", "Die Harder", "Die a Lot", "True Lies" or "Big Fibs" –they're all the same really. Arnie, Bruce, Sly… Yawn. The point is... at some point in the movie ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
This is another one of those subtext things.
"I don't know why anyone would bother with managed code. My developers are just as productive in VB6 as anyone else! In fact I'm thinking of starting up some old school C projects just to buck the trend. "
"One might think that"
Actually it's "One might think ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
So this is only BritSpeak because my brother Richard and I made it up while sitting in Becky's Diner in Portland, Maine. Becky's has a largish menu with lots of options. Not something I'm keen on dealing with before about 6pm. But diners are a must when visiting the East coast.
Richard, after ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Tricky stuff this English... One might think that difference of opinion simply means we disagreed, as in one of us thinks it's going to rain this afternoon and the other doesn't. That's not a "difference of opinion" it's a disagreement. Why? Because "differences of opinion" are on another level and usually involve a "free and ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
So as an Englishman working in the US I've had a few communication problems on occasion. The are several sites dedicated to different word usage across the Atlantic. None of them seem to really help when it comes to some of the subtleties of English, as spoken in the UK.
Understatement is ...
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