+- MacResource (https://forums.macresource.com)
+-- Forum: My Category (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Tips and Deals (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Thread: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? (/showthread.php?tid=114102)
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - D. Lawson - 03-21-2011
rz wrote:
And before someone complains, it's a joke.
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - Michael - 03-21-2011
Incrementally inclement weather?
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - Grumpyguy - 03-21-2011
inclement weather can incrementally get worse.
see--http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/incrementally
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - ka jowct - 03-21-2011
I heard someone quoted on ESPN recently, about the NFL labor talks: he said the tension in the room was "palatable".
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - bazookaman - 03-21-2011
ka jowct wrote:
I heard someone quoted on ESPN recently, about the NFL labor talks: he said the tension in the room was "palatable".
He's a regular Norman Einstein.
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - RE:up - 03-21-2011
Yes, and I still hear otherwise highly educated people mispronounce nuclear. Nu-Ku-Ler, instead of the correct Nu-Klee-er. The heart of an atom is after all the Nu-Klee-Us, and not the Nu-Ku-Lus, n'est pas?
bazookaman wrote:
[quote=ka jowct]
I heard someone quoted on ESPN recently, about the NFL labor talks: he said the tension in the room was "palatable".
He's a regular Norman Einstein.
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - kap - 03-21-2011
graylocks wrote:
[quote=kap]
I have heard both of them used as an adj. hence my confusion.
don't you be believing everything you hear are correct spoke english.
That is a tough one for ESL folks like me. Regional vernaculars with tech talk tossed into the mix and it's a whirlpool of confusing usage for us. I still have trouble with "trouble-shoot"
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - Chakravartin - 03-21-2011
RE:up wrote:
Yes, and I still hear otherwise highly educated people mispronounce nuclear.
That's timely.
They just did a riff on that on the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast.
And another riff on Einstein's name.
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - Lew Zealand - 03-21-2011
Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=RE:up]
Yes, and I still hear otherwise highly educated people mispronounce nuclear.
That's timely.
They just did a riff on that on the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast.
And another riff on Einstein's name.
Eiyunstein. 8-) Next time Jay will be saying Daruwin.
Re: English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather? - decay - 03-21-2011
