tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post415571667852588304..comments2023-10-11T14:18:03.816+01:00Comments on Works Well: Gardeners waste vital resourceRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-40952141193849310812008-11-19T10:56:00.000+00:002008-11-19T10:56:00.000+00:00Lucy: Oh dear me, a couple of wounds that had hard...Lucy: Oh dear me, a couple of wounds that had hardly healed over and I've caused them to open again. By the way, until I read your comment I hadn't realised how close the word blogger is to the sin that caused so much censure to fall on the heads of those who dwelt in the Cities of the Plain.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-37987482569543317822008-11-16T10:02:00.000+00:002008-11-16T10:02:00.000+00:00I've given up the struggle with 'blog', web-log ne...I've given up the struggle with 'blog', web-log never seemd to really work. It is a horrid word but there's no way around it. I think it may be one of the reasons I'm a little unwilling to 'come out' as a blogger to the laity, it just sounds so stupid.<BR/><BR/>We gave up GW some way into the Titchmarsh period. Geoff Hamilton was the one and only for us really, though I bear him an only slight reproach for encouraging overweening and unrealistic ambition in my husband when it came to the horticulturally realistic or even possible.<BR/><BR/>As to the coining of unnecessary phrasal verbs, this is one of the banes of my life as an English language teacher, as it's such a tricky area for learners, and one on which many a very competent non-native speaker can founder. I think 'potting on' is OK, as it adds a specific sense of continuing a process. The worst offenders are cookery programmes, though, where just about every culinary action seems to need the totally redundant particle 'off', and with nouns become verbs at the drop of a saucepan, one hears such things as 'wokking off', which sounds mildly obscene...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-16888511340834585502008-11-10T17:00:00.000+00:002008-11-10T17:00:00.000+00:00When I remember, I use the term web log, from whic...When I remember, I use the term web log, from which blog is apparently derived. It's more sedate, if less succinct and seems to have given way to its awful abreviation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-33837264922297468762008-11-10T11:31:00.000+00:002008-11-10T11:31:00.000+00:00M-L: your other half should meet my other half. He...M-L: your other half should meet my other half. Her especial animus is directed presently (there'll be others I'm sure)towards "property" when used in news broadcasts as a synonym for house.<BR/><BR/>No one with a feeling for language would have come up with the ugly prioritise. Mind you, I'm not exactly in love with blog.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-30736339597321806952008-11-09T18:47:00.000+00:002008-11-09T18:47:00.000+00:00'the aphids of communications' made me smile, as d...'the aphids of communications' made me smile, as did this rant. I think language gets murdered in a lot of areas of specialty, even in news media (a pet peeve of my other half's). He says this making up of new slang, trying to be cute, is a sign of lazy minds. I think he may be right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-70535488469124438652008-11-09T17:06:00.000+00:002008-11-09T17:06:00.000+00:00Like you I've given up GW but for horticultural a...Like you I've given up GW but for horticultural as well as the presentational reasons at which you quite rightly point your angry shears.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-81711290739105916942008-11-09T17:02:00.000+00:002008-11-09T17:02:00.000+00:00My friends Pete and Liz are extreme gardners. On a...My friends Pete and Liz are extreme gardners. On a visit to my house they saw a sad looking vase of forgotten freesias that should have been disposed of perhaps two weeks earlier. Liz said "I think they have 'gone over' ".Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-2585110661206364892008-11-09T17:01:00.000+00:002008-11-09T17:01:00.000+00:00My friends Pete and Liz are extreme gardners. On a...My friends Pete and Liz are extreme gardners. On a visit to my house they saw a sad looking vase of forgotten freesias that should have been disposed of perhaps two weeks earlier. Liz said "I think they have 'gone over' ".Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.com