English usage: Is it increment OR inclement weather?

[D. Lawson]

rz wrote:
And before someone complains, it's a joke.

[Michael]

Incrementally inclement weather?

[Grumpyguy]

inclement weather can incrementally get worse.

see--http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/incrementally

[ka jowct]

I heard someone quoted on ESPN recently, about the NFL labor talks: he said the tension in the room was "palatable".

[bazookaman]

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:up]

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.

[kap]

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"

[Chakravartin]

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.

[Lew Zealand]

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.

[decay]