[Sca-cooks] Grammar nitpick (was menus, seat allocation)
Martin G. Diehl
mdiehl at nac.net
Wed Nov 13 04:54:41 PST 2002
Avraham haRofeh wrote:
>
> > to the populous at noon
>
> Sorry folks, pet peeve. "Populous" is an ADJECTIVE
> and means "heavily populated".
> The noun you want is "populace".
>
> </rant>
>
> Avraham
Cute, thanks.
Reminds me of the time I saw the word "owens" on a
whiteboard. The conversation went ...
What's "owens" mean?
I was told, "You know, the owens."
"No, I don't."
The system programmers' then related a meeting with
their manager who said, "... if [this project] was
late, they weren't putting the owens on him."
Vincenzo
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Martin G. Diehl
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