atw: Re: Correct usage conundrum: 'Match to' vs 'Match with'

  • From: Evan Read <eread@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:08:56 +0800

Oh dear Lord.  If only I could take back that erroneous apostrophe.

On Mon Feb  1 10:58 , Evan Read <eread@xxxxxxxxxxxx> sent:

>When do American's mix up the words fact and opinion?  Could you use them in 
>sentences with their American meanings?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Evan.
>
>On Mon Feb  1 12:52 , 'Geoffrey Marnell' geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sent:
>
>..
>>As for your US correspondents who mix up the meanings 
>>of "fact" and "opinion", well, there will always be people who use language 
>>unconventionally (deliberately or through ignorance). They're not, though, 
>>using 
>>language incorrectly. They are simply not using it as the majority of English 
>>speakers use it, at present. It's much like "regular" and "frequent". These 
>>were 
>>once distinct words. Now there is a such a critical mass of folk using 
>>"regular" 
>>to mean "frequent" that the words are in transition, and best avoided until a 
>>single strong primary meaning re-appears. Maybe "fact" will mean "opinion" in 
>>of "theorum" in his latest book. A useful little word. I hope it takes 
>>off.
>>Cheers
>>Geoffrey 
>>Marnell
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>>
>>
>>From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>[austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx','','','')">austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Christine 
>>Kent
>>Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:03 PM
>>To: 
>>austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: atw: Re: Correct usage conundrum: 
>>"Match to" vs "Match with"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>So 
>>can we now use alternate instead of alternative?
>>I 
>>which result in a degradation of the language and the nuances we can express 
>>using language.
>>I 
>>have just had an argument on an American based forum where I have tried to 
>>explain that opinion is opinion and fact is fact, as most on the forum do not 
>>the language, because some cannot differentiate between fact and opinion. 
>>divergent ideas are openly discussed, and abuse where people are insulted for 
>>intellectual debate is now seen as personal abuse?
>>Perhaps 
>>we should have an unwritten rule that we adapt the language any which way we 
>>so who is the arbiter of loss of meaning and subtlety?
>>Christine
>>
>
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