Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is what we should use in news articles.
Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And “tweet” — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three. Yet it has appeared 18 times in articles in the past month, in a range of sections.
Interesting history exercise: find out what year NYT stopped using the standard English "piloting of motored coaches", with its etymological pedigree in the noble seafaring arts, in lieu of the much more vulgar "driving a car", or went to "e-mail" from the proper "dispersal of magic telegrams by way of the electronic devil-machine."
The last fifty times I've heard the word "tweet" used were all in non-ornithological contexts.
NYT has one of the, if not the, widest distributions in the country (WSJ or UST might be more, but it's 2010 and I don't really give enough of a fsck about dinosaurs to look it up). For them to stop using a five-letter verb that is not just the term accepted by the creator of a product but already an English word in favour of the wasted ink of a ten- or thirteen-letter phrase indicates that either they don't care about the wasted ink on all nine papers they sell or else print media's the next bailout.
"the usual crowd (Republicans, Focus on the Family, Think of the Children) gathered in opposition to the move."
Yeah, no one ever thinks about how kids' credit cards are always being stolen by online identity thieves when they use them to register online gambling accounts.
Because they were drunk, or distracted by their kids, or falling asleep, or doing any number of things that weren't talking on a phone, so obviously they're perfectly safe drivers and their accidents were just flukes.
Of course, the numbers will just be ignored by folks who swear that that one woman who they saw run a redlight four years ago are the rule, because it's the eleventy thousand perfectly normal, not in any way out-of-the-ordinary things we see happen every day that we remember perfectly.
* Total fatalities, fatalities per X drivers, fatalities per X miles driven...
There was an old Fourth Doctor story (The Destiny of the Daleks), in which while the Doctor is trapped and awaiting Romana to return with help, he bides his time by reading (and criticizing) an Oolan Calluphid book.
Colin Baker was Commander Maxil in "Arc of Infinity" a year before he became The Doctor, and Romana regenerated specifically into a copy of Princess Astra, so there's no reason it couldn't have been SP.
Wouldn't put it past RTD to try that again, but as dumb as Rose was, I'm pretty sure by now she's learned to stop messing with that stuff. Especially since she's got her own Doctor to keep her company back there.
I'd say they're more *amoral*. They want to get rid of everyone, sure, but they don't exactly go around raping and pillaging while they're at it (well, the Cult of Skaro did to a minor extent).
Unless you meant *immortal*, in which case, you couldn't be further from the truth. There IS a living creature inside, and it ain't Captain Jack.
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I don't know enough about British jurisprudence, but here in America, we'll spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to incarcerate you for twenty bucks' worth of drugs or a $1.99 mp3. On the other hand, if your crimes drive enough people into bankruptcy, the government will give you billions of dollars in bailout money. This is somewhere in that big grey expanse between them.
I was in Wal-Mart last week when I happened to walk by a customer interested in one of the iThingamadealies (don't ask me which, I didn't get that close a look, other than the shiny white finish). Anyhow, as the cashier showed him the display model, the customer in examining it turned it over to look for the battery compartment. When it was finally drilled into him by the exasperated employee (who really needed to be commended on his patience) that there *was no* removable battery, the customer left immediately, without even considering the competitors' products.
There's a moral in that story, but I can't tell if it's something to do with Apple's amazing ability to market its products as one-of-a-kind maguffins or its insistence on making said products islands unto themselves, but as I saw it go down, what was "good" for Apple turned out to be bad not only for Apple, but for the entire industry.
Maybe you can feel them when you're getting them, but can you feel them on the guy in line ahead of you while you're sitting in the waiting room? Because that's what this guy is claiming, if the signals are originating out of HIS NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE.
IANAL, but it seems to me if they let this get to court, then while he's under oath on the stand, the defense attorney could just whip out his cell phone, which was on the whole time: "Your Honor, Exhibit A, move for summary judgment." Then use his testimony as evidence in criminal fraud charges.
... these increasingly irrelevant olde mædia dinosaurs are going to take any tack they can to stick it to the interwebs and the customers who aren't suckling at their teats.
The sad thing is that too many people in this country seem to think that increasing taxes during a recession is a good idea.
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Like of the headline grammar way is phrased?
Oh, really? According to The Twitter Glossary,
If anyone has a right to define terms relating to Twitter, that'd be it.
You have a Woof on line 1.
Interesting history exercise: find out what year NYT stopped using the standard English "piloting of motored coaches", with its etymological pedigree in the noble seafaring arts, in lieu of the much more vulgar "driving a car", or went to "e-mail" from the proper "dispersal of magic telegrams by way of the electronic devil-machine." The last fifty times I've heard the word "tweet" used were all in non-ornithological contexts.
NYT has one of the, if not the, widest distributions in the country (WSJ or UST might be more, but it's 2010 and I don't really give enough of a fsck about dinosaurs to look it up). For them to stop using a five-letter verb that is not just the term accepted by the creator of a product but already an English word in favour of the wasted ink of a ten- or thirteen-letter phrase indicates that either they don't care about the wasted ink on all nine papers they sell or else print media's the next bailout.
But THESE go to ELEVEN.
Won't taking the toys away just give the kids less incentive to play and BURN OFF THE CALORIES?
Then go Android and be treated like an adult. If you want to think for yourself, you're not in Apple's demo anyhow.
Yeah, no one ever thinks about how kids' credit cards are always being stolen by online identity thieves when they use them to register online gambling accounts.
Because they were drunk, or distracted by their kids, or falling asleep, or doing any number of things that weren't talking on a phone, so obviously they're perfectly safe drivers and their accidents were just flukes.
Of course, the numbers will just be ignored by folks who swear that that one woman who they saw run a redlight four years ago are the rule, because it's the eleventy thousand perfectly normal, not in any way out-of-the-ordinary things we see happen every day that we remember perfectly.
* Total fatalities, fatalities per X drivers, fatalities per X miles driven ...
It's people who hold to views like these who are the first in line to buy HD Telescreens.
There was an old Fourth Doctor story (The Destiny of the Daleks), in which while the Doctor is trapped and awaiting Romana to return with help, he bides his time by reading (and criticizing) an Oolan Calluphid book.
The ones who place car washes under Police Control do.
Colin Baker was Commander Maxil in "Arc of Infinity" a year before he became The Doctor, and Romana regenerated specifically into a copy of Princess Astra, so there's no reason it couldn't have been SP.
Wouldn't put it past RTD to try that again, but as dumb as Rose was, I'm pretty sure by now she's learned to stop messing with that stuff. Especially since she's got her own Doctor to keep her company back there.
I'd say they're more *amoral*. They want to get rid of everyone, sure, but they don't exactly go around raping and pillaging while they're at it (well, the Cult of Skaro did to a minor extent). Unless you meant *immortal*, in which case, you couldn't be further from the truth. There IS a living creature inside, and it ain't Captain Jack.
I don't know enough about British jurisprudence, but here in America, we'll spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to incarcerate you for twenty bucks' worth of drugs or a $1.99 mp3. On the other hand, if your crimes drive enough people into bankruptcy, the government will give you billions of dollars in bailout money. This is somewhere in that big grey expanse between them.
I was in Wal-Mart last week when I happened to walk by a customer interested in one of the iThingamadealies (don't ask me which, I didn't get that close a look, other than the shiny white finish). Anyhow, as the cashier showed him the display model, the customer in examining it turned it over to look for the battery compartment. When it was finally drilled into him by the exasperated employee (who really needed to be commended on his patience) that there *was no* removable battery, the customer left immediately, without even considering the competitors' products. There's a moral in that story, but I can't tell if it's something to do with Apple's amazing ability to market its products as one-of-a-kind maguffins or its insistence on making said products islands unto themselves, but as I saw it go down, what was "good" for Apple turned out to be bad not only for Apple, but for the entire industry.
No, that causes mass extinctions and gets rid of annoying know-it-all kids.
No, that's the wrong homophone next to the word "Greek", then.
Actually, most museums DO HAVE official "Sketching Policies" detailing which, if any, pieces in their collections you may or may not sketch.
*My* calculator says 867-5309 = -4442, which factors into (-1 * 2 * 2221).
IANAL, but it seems to me if they let this get to court, then while he's under oath on the stand, the defense attorney could just whip out his cell phone, which was on the whole time: "Your Honor, Exhibit A, move for summary judgment." Then use his testimony as evidence in criminal fraud charges.
... these increasingly irrelevant olde mædia dinosaurs are going to take any tack they can to stick it to the interwebs and the customers who aren't suckling at their teats. The sad thing is that too many people in this country seem to think that increasing taxes during a recession is a good idea.