atw: Re: This does not make sense
- From: LIVERANI Petra <Petra.LIVERANI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:50:13 +1000
Hi Rod,
Can you please label any posts where you express an attitude towards the
phenomena of global warming or human-induced climate change as OT.
Regards,
Petra
Petra Liverani
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Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:22 AM
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Subject: atw: Re: This does not make sense
Here is one for you. On the ABC news site
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-20/global-warming-could-be-slower-than-first-thought-report/4701010>there
is the usual BS about the mythical 'global warming' etc. in which this little
gem is dropped, much like excrement for the rear end of a bull:
"For example, an El Nino is when the heat stored in the ocean temporarily
glurges out so the surface warms up but the total amount of heat in the system
doesn't change."
Apart from being total nonsense, it really belies the source of the ABC's
stories:
World English Dictionary
glurge (ɡlɜːdʒ)
[http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif]
<http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html>
— n
stories, often sent by email, that are supposed to be true and uplifting, but
which are often fabricated and sentimental
On 21 May 2013 06:45, Bob Trussler
<bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
We all moan about the falling standards in grammar these days, but something
strange is happening. Forget the standards, as some things don’t even make
sense.
An ABC TV newsreader said “a high day of drama”.
Suely, it should be “a day of high drama”? Maybe the writer was a bit high
when they wrote this.
Later in the same news broadcast, we were told about thieves in Cannes who
stole “the safe in a hotel room packed with jewels”.
Why would anyone steal the safe when the room was packed with jewels? Now I am
really confused.
Then I relaxed with some good news as I read about “a suspected boat of 83
asylum seekers …”
At least the asylum seekers had been accepted as genuine and only the boat was
a suspect. I am still wondering what would the boat be suspected of. Maybe
someone suspected that it was a boat but wasn’t sure.
Bob Trussler
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