Subj : Erratum...  1.
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Fri Feb 09 2018 22:16:51

Hi, Paul!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 AH>  I reckon you mean "faux pas".

 PQ>  Yes.  I was being inventive again.  Usually it goes
 PQ>  by the alternative 'fox paw', which I'm guessing you
 PQ>  would have recognized straight up.  I do this when
 PQ>  I'm too lazy to check with Uncle Google for the
 PQ>  genuine French.


           I have seen Fox News referred to as "Faux News" in other echoes...
i.e. by writers who don't approve of the content.  And I can see how "paw" is
related to "[foot]step" because, when writers in Z2 forget to toggle a switch
controlling the language of the salutation, I associate "skriev" or "schrieb"
with "scribe" but won't guarantee I've spelled it exactly as written.  What I
had in mind was that our friends who are not native speakers of English & who
have learned chiefly via reading might be confused by phonetic spellings.

           I think it must seem rather peculiar to folks from other countries
that native speakers of English can get their minds around words like "cough"
and "knife" and "sleigh" and "yacht" but balk at French, though.  I wonder if
there's still some lingering resentment against William of Normandy (1066 and
All That).  OTOH French was the international language of Europe... including
Russia... for hundreds of years, and many educated Russians can read it.  :-)



 PQ>  Compleat (sic) with another misspelling, later regretted.


           Ah... I see you caught the ball & ran with it!  Usage note for the
benefit of other readers:

 1.  "sic" is used to call attention to something, especially something which
     appears to be an error.  What Paul & I are doing here is having fun with
     the language.  I made a joke by misspelling a word, but flagged the word
     with "sic" & used the correct spelling later.

 2.  "compleat" is a 16th-17th century spelling of "complete".  Although it's
     rarely seen nowadays, it may still be used in a jocular manner.



 PQ>  I've been making quite a few mistakes recently.


           I noticed a couple of minor spelling errors.  WRT you & Alexander,
however, I don't correct what I think you'll see for yourselves the next time
you glance over what you've typed &/or somebody quotes it.

           If you've seen me putting upper &/or lower case letters where they
don't belong recently, BTW, it's because I had to replace my old monitor with
one which won't let me use the font I'm accustomed to... (sigh).



 PQ>  So many that I can detect Alexander having fits
 PQ>  of frustration, based on the server's logfile
 PQ>  entries.


           Hmm... I wondered why he hadn't said much here lately & thought it
might be because of something I did.  If he's writing up a storm with you, at
least I know he's still alive & paying attention.

           Note to Alexander:  You are the person I count on to ask about the
issues ten other people were wondering about but were too shy to ask....  ;-)




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