tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post1355336735863482412..comments2024-02-19T07:51:46.118-05:00Comments on Throw Grammar from the Train: No harm, no foul?Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173219179480606941noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-90574820287165776362012-05-19T04:03:03.247-04:002012-05-19T04:03:03.247-04:00Sometimes 500 years seems like a millennia... now,...Sometimes 500 years seems like a millennia... now, if spellcheck will accept it...lolAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12642708744231522287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-63604588481954520462012-05-19T03:56:51.800-04:002012-05-19T03:56:51.800-04:00My Studio theatre, wherever I am, is called "...My Studio theatre, wherever I am, is called "New Millennia Studio" and I have to say it IS a word, at least when I took my Contenental drift class in college... it is just that most people haven't the patience to even think that long... let alone grasp how much time... so here, straight from the source:<br /><br />mil·len·ni·um (m-ln-m)<br />n. pl. mil·len·ni·a (-ln-) or mil·len·ni·ums<br />1. A span of one thousand years.<br />2. A thousand-year period of holiness mentioned in Revelation 20, during which Jesus and his faithful followers are to rule on earth.<br />3. A hoped-for period of joy, serenity, prosperity, and justice.<br />4. A thousandth anniversary.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12642708744231522287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-8778127436695585182012-04-28T13:07:20.591-04:002012-04-28T13:07:20.591-04:00I will conjecture that the least noticeable errors...I will conjecture that the least noticeable errors are those corresponding to the way a word was first learned. We generally learn words from context and, consequently, at first have only a general notion of what a new word means. So perhaps our first idea about "century" and "millennium" was typically something like "age", "era", or "time period appropriate to the contest".Gregory Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293280236115306205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-24405488056168384602012-04-27T20:13:41.871-04:002012-04-27T20:13:41.871-04:00I nominate for the embarrassing blooper Hall of In...I nominate for the embarrassing blooper Hall of Infamy, my failure to notice that a crucial consonant was missing in a document that offered "For more information contact the Pubic Information Office." I was head of that office. <br /><br />It was two days before the emails hit my inbox. When I alerted my boss, his sly reaction was "Hmmmm, we may have to change your job description."LChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08369350929348290480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-75259390289262759762012-04-27T14:51:23.117-04:002012-04-27T14:51:23.117-04:00Both your slips could be excused as exaggeration f...Both your slips could be excused as exaggeration for humour.Sue Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386142309332609673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-80413038654516882592012-04-26T21:03:35.793-04:002012-04-26T21:03:35.793-04:00" Keep your stupid simple" - thanks for ..." Keep your stupid simple" - thanks for my new motto.mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042500344000182850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-9769073697213095882012-04-26T19:06:08.719-04:002012-04-26T19:06:08.719-04:00In your defense "millenia" is an infecti...In your defense "millenia" is an infectiously appealing word. It's probably going to be stuck in my head now, right next to "fibromyalgia" and "inundated" :DBryan Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607046468663026271noreply@blogger.com