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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:05:12PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: |
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> > I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to |
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> > me, with the possible exception of a run-on "if". |
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> > The full sentence was "I usually always look to see if Dale has been |
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> > involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned" |
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> Ah it's just using two different words that describe seeing something :-) |
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> I like to think that my english is a little better. I mean it should have been "see if" or "look to see whether" (as far as I remember anyway :-)) |
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Huh, the "look to see" part, while inelegant and repetitive, is a common |
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colloquialism, and I don't think was the problem. I was more thrown |
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off by "usually always", which is either an oxymoron (if you take a |
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strict view of the word "usually") or redundant (if you take "usually" |
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to contain "always" as a subset). </pedant> |
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(Looks like I only have off-topic contributions to this thread.) |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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