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Thank you Pedantic Curmudgeon for bringing PC back into our lives ;-)
Sincerely
GrahamK
On 06 Apr 2006, at 6:25 am, Richard Wright wrote:
> That native of the community of illiteracy - the Oxford English
> Dictionary - has an entry "impact, v.". Citations of its use as a
> verb go back to 1601. The last citation is dated 1972.
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>> Subject: standards
>> From: Tim Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:52:33 -0400
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> Yargh! I feel like one of those crusty old curmudgeons, at least
>> one of
>> which shows up on everyone's dissertation committee, but in the
>> interest of
>> students and the impressionable young that might be on this list, I'm
>> compelled to point out:
>>
>> Amy, "impact" is not a verb. I know the native speaker is always
>> right (Dr.
>> Hardaman beat it into my brain) but we don't have to be natives of
>> the
>> community of illiteracy.
>>
>> Marcy, the expression is not ". . . fair so well . . ." but
>> " . . . fare so
>> well . . .", as in "wayfaring" or traveling.
>>
>> Academic and bureaucratic gobbledy gook is bad enough, but can't
>> we maintain
>> some devotion to clear writing?
>>
>> Tim T.
>> pedantic curmudgeon
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