[Magdalen] Invites

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

You have a pet peeve and ride it to death about every three weeks or so.
and of course, that's just fine.

I have a pet peeve, which is smug, self-righteous folks who don't get it
that English is an evolving language (I'm not sure why this is such a
difficult concept for otherwise intelligent people to grasp, but it is),
and whine about stuff they think is soooo terrible, while conveniently
ignoring the stuff they personally do all the time.

Uh, thanks for asking.

And while it is true that Feb-yew-airy makes me wince whenever I hear it,
whining about it won't change the fact that this language is changing.

So, as I said, let's by all means carp and gripe about all the silly stuff
that at the end of the day means nothing at all, while we let the important
stuff go -- because, gosh, where DOES the time go???

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If there's a topic in the Pub in which you're not interested, how about
> just bypassing it instead of caricaturing those participating in it?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:17 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Oh yes, let's by all means whine about those evil awful people over there
> > who use language I don't approve of (the fact of it's being standard
> > English for decades, of course, notwithstanding), so we can distract
> > ourselves from paying attention to things in our own life that we might
> > repair if we just had the time.
> >
> >
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
> >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:16 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm one who growls at "graduated high school."
> >> And I've come to loathe "iconic," the most over-used word of the decade.
> >> Then there's "back in the day." Which day?
> >> -M
> >>
>