#13 by Dr. Guy Friday, June 17, 2005 Sorry doc but that's wrong. What you are quoting is "how" the macine communicates to other machines. ATM is the name and it stands for automated teller machine. Just go ask at a bank. I did. Brrrrpppp! I was using ATM before the banks! My statement stands. call me a geek! ATM is Asynchronous Transfer Mode!

Not anymore! For crying out loud doc come into the 21st century.

I'm sorry for the rather...insulting post. It wasn't meant as something to be promptly deleted, nor do I think it necessarily warranted such a dreadful fate I simply wanted people to see that there are several angles that these "incorrect" figures of speech can be viewed from. The world is not a stark landscape of black and white.

In all fairness, the comment wasn't something that should have been marked for deletion. It made valid points. Granted, it was overtly condescending, but not at the aim of offending, simply for provoking one to see matters from a different perspective. How fair is it to call people idiots for using this language? Certainly no more fair than my response.

Ah, and I almost forgot, quoting out of context is such a dispicable offense.
-Josh
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Granted, it was overtly condescending, but not at the aim of offending, simply for provoking one to see matters from a different perspective.

I suppose others would disagree with you. If it was condescending *and* offensive *and* attempted to provoke people... that's commonly called trolling.

dispicable

Do you mean "despicable"?

One from the Army: SRP Packet (as in, "you need to update your...").
Soldier Readiness Packet packet? Pet peeve of mine having worked in our company's office.

With some of these you have a point, but every language has its idioms, since there is more than one way to skin a cat, even while speaking. ;~D

My favorite of this type of mis-speaking though is: "It's 9:22a.m. in the morning"...

Oh really, as opposed to that pesky "9:22a.m. in the evening"?

#33 by JShort Saturday, June 18, 2005

It's called "humor". Look it up in the dictionary.

You're new here and so don't know the personalities of the assorted bloggers we have here. A great many of my articles are humor or satire. Also, I am one of the bloggers here who does not tolerate people coming in and shitting all over my blog. My house, my rules. If you can't be nice, don't come back.

My favorite of this type of mis-speaking though is: "It's 9:22a.m. in the morning"... Oh really, as opposed to that pesky "9:22a.m. in the evening"?

Yeah that's another good one. I've even caught myself doing that once or twice and prompty gave myself a mental slap in the head.

Do you mean "despicable"?

Sure do. Thanks for the spell check

I suppose others would disagree with you. If it was condescending *and* offensive *and* attempted to provoke people... that's commonly called trolling.

Once again, a bit of this is taken out of context. I believe I said "for provoking one to see matters from a different perspective". This, in other words, would mean "thought provoking". Well, since apparently we have trouble with the use of the word "provoking" (which isn't always a bad word), I'll say "thought inspiring". I also said it wasn't meant to be offensive. So really, it didn't fall in the realms of "trolling". Unless you define "trolling" as "having an opposing view point", in which case we run into a striking problem of closed-mindedness. Yes, it was contrary to popular opinion. When it enters into the realm of trolling is when the opposition is done without any purpose, foundation, or intent other than to inflame. Now, if you're offended when someone simply has a different opinion or says "well, try to think about it this way", then it would seem that any given single party state would gladly accept you into the ruling class. Once again, trolling has nothing to do with offering a differing opinion for the sake of discussion. Trolling lacks reason other than to offend. And yes, the category here was humor...but that doesn't mean it can't support discussion, does it?

Now, so you don't claim I'm trolling again:

How about when people answer the phone and say "This is her/him" instead of "This is he/she". Silly people and not knowing which pronouns to use where.

Or when someone says they have a satellite. No, you have a satellite dish.

Or when you tell them to get on the internet and they say "you mean open up this "E""....no, I mean sign on, since you're using dial-up. That's a web-browser, not the internet

Not anymore! For crying out loud doc come into the 21st century.

NEVER!

#41 by Dr. Guy Saturday, June 18, 2005 Not anymore! For crying out loud doc come into the 21st century. NEVER!

Then get off the computer!