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Mike wrote:
> Ya' right LOL > > > "Toyota MDT in MO" > wrote in message > ... > >> Mike wrote: >> >>> Get real, acceptable to whom?. Conventional usage does not make an >>> improper pronunciation of a word correct. >>> >>> How often do we hear on TV or see in print that a person "pled guilty," >>> when the correct legal term is "pleaded guilty," or that Saddam was >>> "Hung," rather than the correct term, "Hanged?" >>> >>> When his wife was told by a reporter in Paris, where she lived that he >>> was hung, she laughed and said no he wasn't. >>> >>> If any man had a choice, they were surely prefer the former over the >>> later LOL >>> >>> >>> "HLS" > wrote in message >>> ... >>> >>> >>>> preventative >>>> "Toyota MDT in MO" > wrote in message >>>> ... >>>> >>>> >>>>> Mike wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> One might take note, there is no "at" in "preventive maintenance." >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> One might stop bothering to correct the dictionary, as it is an >>>>> acceptable alternate spelling. I've already been through this, and >>>>> you're wrong. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Toyota MDT in MO >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Absolutely correct. >>>> There are often minor preferential differences between North American >>>> English as well, such as >>>> "orientated" and "oriented". Both are perfectly acceptable. >>>> >>> >>> >> You might want to proofread your scribble for grammatical and factual >> accuracy, genius. LOL?. >> >> "Today I pled My **** to reconsider his incorrect ideas concerning >> grammar, and he just laughed out loud at the suggestion." >> >> Pled = past tense = correct = eat it. Had you known that pled is also >> acceptable as a past participle? >> >> Surely you were prefer to type correctly, weren't you(?) >> >> BTW, conventional and acceptable are two different concepts. >> >> -- >> Toyota MDT in MO >> > > > Sweet comeback! LOL -- Toyota MDT in MO |
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Ya' right. LOL
"Toyota MDT in MO" > wrote in message ... > Mike wrote: >> Perhaps, to some I suppose, but they ain't had much good schoolhosin' >> and thy sure isn't lawya's. LOL >> >> >> >> "HLS" > wrote in message >> ... >> >>> "Mike" > wrote in message >>> ... >>> >>>> Get real, acceptable to whom?. Conventional usage does not make an >>>> improper pronunciation of a word correct. >>>> >>> Both variants are acceptable in the English language variants. I >>> didnt say anything >>> about conventional usage. >>> >>> "Pleaded" is listed as a colloquial usage in the Websters New World >>> Dictionary. >>> "Pled" or "plead" is perfectly acceptable as well. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > Yeah, well whomever "they" are, it's likely they haven't been schooled > (colloquialism) by a lowly mechanic on such points. Feel special. > LOL > > -- > Toyota MDT in MO |
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