Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:31:48 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Oops re: Preventive maintenance
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well, should wait till fridae ..
but since so much traffic in this topic -
I knew 'preventative' would be a recognized version of that word.
'preventive' is more natural and fewer syllables or course, and 'better.'
on what bugs me language wise...
two things I just have to not let get to me ....because they have crept
universally into the language.
one is 'where something is at.'
it's 'where something is.' Period.
Even TV news announcers can't talk about the location of something without
saying where it is AT, universally these days, it seems.
the other is the dropping of the 'ly' ending for adverbs.
this one I accept a little more.
It's 'drive carefully' not 'drive careful' ...though as I said ...it's
becoming the norm to leave 'ly' off adverbs.
I would also wonder how many people graduating from our schools these days
even know what an adverb is.
you know...clever butchering of the language ........cleverly modifying it
..that is great intellectual fun, even poetic.
Butchering it because someone doesn't know better..........that is grating
to some for sure.
oh.....Spelling. I can NOT spell for beans ! It takes me longer to
spell-correct an email than it does to write it,
Sometimes I'll correct a few words ............then just send the rest like
it is.
Apologies for all my misspellings. Not my forte at all.
And even Road & Track Magazine, which SHOULD be a bastion of correct
English, even they just wrote 'less weight, less cylinders' in the most
recent issue. It's 'fewer cylinders' of course.
There's a bumper sticker that says 'less wars' . I wonder if they were
doing that to be cute, like to grab attention, or they just don't know
better. ....cause it's 'fewer warS' ..................or 'less war'. I sure
hope it was intentional, cause otherwise it just sounds uneducated and is
distracting from the real message.
I'm sure I'm in trouble now !
and I better get back to some PREVENTATIVE vanagon maintenance work !
Now where did I leave the parts for that job at ?
Work safe !
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:10 AM
Subject: Oops re: Preventive maintenance
> At 11:27 AM 4/15/2010, Loren Busch wrote:
> Personal non-official request -- It's "preventive" and my teeth itch
> slightly when I see it
>
> Well phooey -- it's in the American Heritage Dictionary as a variant
> so I'm just going to have to suck it up and live with it. <dons
> dunce cap and sits in corner muttering "but it still moves...">
>
> Yours,
> David