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AW77 wrote:Separately, the use of “DMGs” is painful. Why is the ‘G’ capitalised? Indeed, why is it there at all?
I think this acronym is here to increase the already high number of abbreviations in the wine world. We wouldn't want to let everyone know so easily what we are talking about, would we? :)
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Whenever you find yourself thinking of using “DMG”, instead write “½Imp”.
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Gothenburg. The pub at my hotel. Not their first language, you plead in mitigation. But somehow, for some reason, this seems more wrong as a result. (Perhaps, on reflection, I should be trying harder to ingratiate myself?)Image
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Nah, let'em have it i say! Both barrels. It being a franchise (or summit) with multiple outlets makes it more of a crime.

They do serve ok beer but obviously this pales in comparison with the signage problem.
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PopulusTremula wrote:They do serve ok beer but obviously this pales in comparison with the signage problem.
No. Serving good beer is more important.
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PopulusTremula wrote:They do serve ok beer but obviously this pales in comparison with the signage problem.
No. Serving good beer is more important.
WHAT??? Something is more important than bad grammar in signs??
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jdaw1 wrote:Side question for Daniel: what affect will this thread have on the 1975 horizontal?
DRT wrote:'m hoping it doesn't become the route for the Gentleman's Triathlon :shock:
Shame on both of you.
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Please sir, a young student seeks education. What is my sin?

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Did you mean to use the word 'affect'?
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djewesbury wrote:Did you mean to use the word 'affect'?
As in, changing something, perhaps slightly? Yes.
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No. You used a noun: affect. This is a word used by psychologists and refers to emotional states. Please reconsider.
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And please learn the different usages of the noun and verb forms of 'affect' and 'effect'.
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djewesbury wrote:And please learn the different usages of the noun and verb forms of 'affect' and 'effect'.
I was unaware that the noun was so different to the verb. Thank you—your reprimand will affect my usage of the word.
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djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:'m hoping it doesn't become the route for the Gentleman's Triathlon :shock:
Is this a singular/plural thing?
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I might have written “Gentlemen’s Triathlon”, but I might have written much as you did. Doubtless teacher will explain.
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"Gentleman's Triathlon" is clearly a solecism when events are commonly described as "Women's Ashes" or "Men's 100 metres".

Please don't compound this with Jesuitical, self-serving, hair-splitting arguments. You are both admins and meant to be showing an example around here. Let that be the end of it.
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djewesbury wrote:"Gentleman's Triathlon" is clearly a solecism
An athlete might indeed take such a dim view of the idea. That need not concern us three.
djewesbury wrote:"Gentleman's Triathlon" is clearly a solecism when events are commonly described as "Women's Ashes" or "Men's 100 metres".
Was this sentence proof-read?
djewesbury wrote:Please don't compound this with Jesuitical, self-serving, hair-splitting arguments.
Self-serving ignorance: this is exactly the place for hair-splitting arguments.
djewesbury wrote:You are both admins and meant to be showing an example around here.
The example we are setting is the willingness to learn.
djewesbury wrote:Let that be the end of it.
Hallelujah. (Is that Jesuitical?)
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Good. Then I'm right, and all this shilly-shallying in your self-justifying quote-a-thon is merely time-wasting.
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And no, Hallelujah is not Jesuitical. Minus 100 points. And you have to submit a report on the religious exegesis in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by the start of the new term.
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djewesbury wrote:Hallelujah is not Jesuitical.
Thought not. Far too loud. I realise that this is naughtily relying on secondary sources which might be obsolete, but my vision of the Jesuits is entirely Zurbaránesque.
djewesbury wrote:Minus 100 points.
Ooh, it is becoming difficult to double my score.
djewesbury wrote:And you have to submit a report on the religious exegesis in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by the start of the new term.
A century ago Dublin was steeped in Catholic guilt; in this era Ireland votes for gay marriage. A century ago Beirut and Damascus were playgrounds of the rich and decadent; in this era they have retreated to anti-superstitious superstition. London and only London is unchangingly quiet in its just restraint, the stalwart inhabitants of which drink thirty- to fifty-year-old Port in moderation. That is, in moderately large quantities. This is what matters.
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DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:'m hoping it doesn't become the route for the Gentleman's Triathlon :shock:
Is this a singular/plural thing?
djewesbury wrote:"Gentleman's Triathlon" is clearly a solecism when events are commonly described as "Women's Ashes" or "Men's 100 metres".

Please don't compound this with Jesuitical, self-serving, hair-splitting arguments. You are both admins and meant to be showing an example around here. Let that be the end of it.
Had Sir not been so determined to show off a simple "Yes" would have sufficed. One hopes Sir does not spend his days displaying such ungentlemanly behaviour to the students of the six counties?

Can't say I've ever met a Jesuit.
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Do you think Jesuits declare themselves openly and go about amongst us like ordinary men? The day you discover that you've met a Jesuit is the day you know your minutes are numbered.
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djewesbury wrote:Do you think Jesuits declare themselves openly and go about amongst us like ordinary men? The day you discover that you've met a Jesuit is the day you know your minutes are numbered.
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The wonderful, updated version of Tapatalk says that I wrote the second quote there. But I must disclaim that credit and give it to its rightful recipient, the great Douglas Adams.
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