Comments on: Handle predicts a shakedown

By: William Newman

William Newman — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 21:58:50 +0000

And towing is something that’s commonly done with line-in-the-sense-of-rope, so I can see how the confusion would be inviting. Similarly “rein” is a very unusual word these days, and “free rein” is essentially unused these days except in one expression which people who hear it fairly naturally guess from context that is spelled “free reign”. Those are errors, but at least they’re not the kind of glaring unforced silly error that we see in e.g. using “literally” when it makes no sense (typically when “figuratively” would make some sense).

Perhaps the key to seldom making errors on obscure homonyms like that is to learn from books instead of lectures, which allows you to divert your error budget from homonyms to pronunciation errors for obscure words that you have read several times but never heard spoken.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 01:22:35 +0000

To be fair, toe is an unusual verb.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:58:44 +0000

“towing the party line…”

Petty and off topic (and late)? Absolutely. Still irritating.

By: Wang Wei Lin

Wang Wei Lin — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:50:21 +0000

Google, Facebook, and Twitter have become a front for the progressive state. While free of Constitutional restrictions as fronts, they are on the leash of the progressive state. Look how Google acquiesces to Communist China. Since the management of these companies have no moral core, they will gladly obey the tug on the leash.