Sunday, May 19, 2013
Hal Steinbrenner calls tickets ‘affordable’
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Qu’ils mangent de la bukkake!
Read More...Hal Steinbrenner spoke at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. He disagreed with the assessment that tickets are overpriced in the Bronx. This is different point of view than what I generally hear from fans. This is what Hal had to say about ticket prices being too high:
“You hear about that in the media,” Steinbrenner said. “You don’t hear that there are thousands and thousands of affordable seats in the $25 range for every game, not to mention the specials that we ...
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< 1 2In a similar vein, I've seen the mistake between dominant and dominate and lose and loose so often that I started to think that I was wrong.
I hate it when people use "dominate" instead of "dominant". And working in the world of Powerpoint pitchbooks, I see people make that mistake a lot.
The one that always bugs me is "lead" vs. "led". People often write the former when they mean the latter. I suspect it is because the element is spelled like "lead" and pronounced like "led", which confuses people. Or because people are stupid.
Also on the grammar front, yesterday I was corrected by a colleague when I said that we would have a committee meeting in spite of some other conflict that had popped up. She told me we would have the meeting despite the other conflict. I realize how silly my phrase sounds after being corrected but I am sure I have misused that phrase MANY times in my life.
Funny, I saw someone make that same mistake in a presentation yesterday. I thought about correcting them but decided it wasn't worth it.
Maybe they just hate Led Zeppelin.
I'm 28, I was also a dominant spelling bee force in elementary school and middle school, and I've never heard of "dilemna".
My biggest language peeve is when people use "loan" as a verb. It is a noun only, the verb is lend/lent.
Merriam-Webster lists loan as both noun and verb.
Is this really that common? Is it a spelling error/mental typing thing, or do people actually think dominate is the right word? Sometimes my thoughts will cross and I'll type the wrong word, but I catch it immediately in a proofread.
My current grammar pet peeves: Misuse of loose/lose and breath/breathe.
I saw it on this site in the past week or so. It's fairly common. I don't think it begins with thinking the proper word is "dominate," (with the long "a" sound), but by not hearing the "n" in dominant and thus spelling it to match how they hear/speak it.
As for my gripes, I don't like the unneccessary "ta" added to preventive, which is such a nice, crisp word.
Speaking of odd word usage, yesterday, I clicked on weather.com and the headline said "FLOODING WRECKS HAVOC IN VENICE"... I suppose I can be thankful it didn't create havoc.
Never even noticed it spelled with two ems until today, or just assumed two ems was the misspelling. I was fine making the move from "Oriental" to "Asian", but if Dafoe had dilemnas, it's good enough for mne.
Never heard this rule before either.
Also on the grammar front, yesterday I was corrected by a colleague when I said that we would have a committee meeting in spite of some other conflict that had popped up. She told me we would have the meeting despite the other conflict.
Never heard this rule before either.
I can't really recall seeing someone use dominate when they mean dominant. Maybe I've seen it once or twice, I guess, but not enough for it to stick with me or for it to seem like a "thing" to me.
Seen this a bunch of times. Never dilemna.
Is this really that common? Is it a spelling error/mental typing thing, or do people actually think dominate is the right word? Sometimes my thoughts will cross and I'll type the wrong word, but I catch it immediately in a proofread.
I spent a year working for a non-native English speaker who frequently made this mistake and I would always have to fix it. I am sure she thought "dominate" was the correct spelling since it happened so often. She never seemed to notice that it had been changed in the final materials. I have since noticed it occasionally in correcting a subordinate's work, but I think they get it after I correct it once.
57, grew up in NE, and clearly remember seeing it as dilemna growing up, and having it pronounced "dilem-nuh" in a jokey way, by me and others.
NE should be North East, not New England.
It seems to be cropping up more recently.
That's my theory anyway.
Mine too.
Anyone over the age of about 40, how do you pronounce this word: "often"
This word is undergoing a shift in pronunciation. In 20 years, everyone will think you don't know how it's pronounced.
50, educated in New Jersey public schools, had never noticed the spelling "dilemna" before this thread. Doesn't mean I haven't encountered it - for all I know I've been whole word reading past it all my life.
Had a TA in law school who would emphasize the n in "damned" just to mess with people. That's the closest I've got, right there.
Another word I learned to spell through Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Re: Often, one thing I've learned from living in the UK is that us North Americans are really afraid of the letter "T". Quite often I soften my t's into d's, or in the case of "often" just get rid of it altogether.
From Online Etymology Dictionary
I guess being an English colony is why I hate loan as a verb.
I say both "offen" and "of-ten".
I thought about it last night, and I realized I'm also bioften.
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