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DanielLB
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May 24 2012, 2:56pm
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Someone may be able to answer this
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When do you use oriented and orientated? Is orientated even a word (is it just orientation)?
I can never find a clear answer of the internet, and it frustrates me since I should know the difference because I use it often enough!
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JWPlatt
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May 24 2012, 2:59pm
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Yes, there is nothing wrong with the sentence, but why would you not be honest?! It is an attempt to emphasize candor so the reader knows it is not just empty, polite praise, or the reverse to cut more deeply. It is, however, considered just as redundant as prefixing "I think" to whatever you have to say about what you are thinking.
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imin
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May 24 2012, 3:06pm
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It doesnt make sense really does it?
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To start by saying to be honest. Does it mean the rest of the time someone is talking to you they are being dishonest? i think for me its more a saying especially as so many people use it that i know its basically lost any meaning.
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Darkstone
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May 24 2012, 3:10pm
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Isn't it a British/American thing?
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I understood that both mean the same, just that "oriented" was American, "orientated" was British. I do know back in the 1970s I heard British soldiers using the latter.
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The audacious proposal stirred his heart. And the stirring became a song, and it mingled with the songs of Gil-galad and Celebrian, and with those of Feanor and Fingon. The song-weaving created a larger song, and then another, until suddenly it was as if a long forgotten memory woke and for one breathtaking moment the Music of the Ainur revealed itself in all glory. He opened his lips to sing and share this song. Then he realized that the others would not understand. Not even Mithrandir given his current state of mind. So he smiled and simply said "A diversion.”
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Alassëa Eruvande
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May 24 2012, 3:15pm
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Ice is no longer available in the drinks at the cafeterias at A&M.
The senior who knew the recipe graduated.
And suddenly the Tornadoes saw afar off a greenlight, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame;
and they knew that this was no vision only, but that PJ had made a new thing: The Hobbit, the Film that Is.
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Otaku-sempai
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May 24 2012, 3:24pm
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There's nothing wrong with our (American) spelling...
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It is simply different from your own.
A pet peeve, though, that I see here all of the time: to/too.
"Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house." - Aragorn
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Elberbeth
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May 24 2012, 4:00pm
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between priorize and prioritize? To me the latter just sounds wrong.
"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
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imin
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May 24 2012, 4:14pm
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never heard anyone use the word priorize
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only ever heard prioritise/prioritize, and when i put priorize into google it automatically changed it to prioritize, lol. So i guess for me priorize sounds really foreign. Maybe another american vs british thing?
I forgot to mention i think they mean different things. Prioritize means expressing the importance of something, u are making it a priority. priorize is a derivative of prior i am guessing and so expresses precedence at least that is how i think of those two, but im sure someone will come along and tell you what they really mean, haha
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JWPlatt
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May 24 2012, 4:15pm
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Priorize: To list?
Prioritize: To put in order of importance.
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RosieLass
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May 24 2012, 4:21pm
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Orientated is one of those stupid new "business-speak" words.
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Like calendarize.
Yuck. 
It is always those with the fewest sensible things to say who make the loudest noise in saying them. --Precious Ramotswe (Alexander McCall Smith)
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RosieLass
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May 24 2012, 4:23pm
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I disagree with the first one.
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With the stomach issues I've been having the last year, I have hunger pangs and hunger pains. 
It is always those with the fewest sensible things to say who make the loudest noise in saying them. --Precious Ramotswe (Alexander McCall Smith)
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Darkstone
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May 24 2012, 4:24pm
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And I think you're right, they wouldn't mean anywhere near the same thing.
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The audacious proposal stirred his heart. And the stirring became a song, and it mingled with the songs of Gil-galad and Celebrian, and with those of Feanor and Fingon. The song-weaving created a larger song, and then another, until suddenly it was as if a long forgotten memory woke and for one breathtaking moment the Music of the Ainur revealed itself in all glory. He opened his lips to sing and share this song. Then he realized that the others would not understand. Not even Mithrandir given his current state of mind. So he smiled and simply said "A diversion.”
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Darkstone
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May 24 2012, 4:26pm
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Wifey's hunger pangs can be quite painful.
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The audacious proposal stirred his heart. And the stirring became a song, and it mingled with the songs of Gil-galad and Celebrian, and with those of Feanor and Fingon. The song-weaving created a larger song, and then another, until suddenly it was as if a long forgotten memory woke and for one breathtaking moment the Music of the Ainur revealed itself in all glory. He opened his lips to sing and share this song. Then he realized that the others would not understand. Not even Mithrandir given his current state of mind. So he smiled and simply said "A diversion.”
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dernwyn
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May 24 2012, 4:29pm
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that they had to close the A&M library? Someone stole the book!
Then they were able to get it back, but had to close again, because the person had colored in all the pages.
(I wonder if my U. Texas/Austin-graduate brother still has his "101 Aggie Jokes" booklet...)
(Oh, I got an email from him today, he wanted to send my youngest a gift certificate, and wondered if Starbucks was "genetic". Yep, he really wrote that. )
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Lily Fairbairn
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May 24 2012, 4:31pm
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The Gaffer graduated from A&M and I graduated from UT. We've made that mixed marriage last a long time!
Seriously, it's funny to go into other parts of the world and see what group is substituted for Aggies in that particular variety of joke. Blondes, even---it doesn't have to be a nationality or college!
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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?
A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
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Lily Fairbairn
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May 24 2012, 4:33pm
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This really sets my teeth on edge
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For example, we enjoy watching American Pickers on the History Channel, but Mike and Frank, no matter how affable and knowledgeable, use horrible grammar. I'm always shouting at the TV after one of them says, "I seen" or "It was broke".
Aiieeee..... 
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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?
A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
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Darkstone
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May 24 2012, 4:35pm
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It did 20 million dollars worth of improvements.
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The audacious proposal stirred his heart. And the stirring became a song, and it mingled with the songs of Gil-galad and Celebrian, and with those of Feanor and Fingon. The song-weaving created a larger song, and then another, until suddenly it was as if a long forgotten memory woke and for one breathtaking moment the Music of the Ainur revealed itself in all glory. He opened his lips to sing and share this song. Then he realized that the others would not understand. Not even Mithrandir given his current state of mind. So he smiled and simply said "A diversion.”
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Lily Fairbairn
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May 24 2012, 4:38pm
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I exchange Word files with friends in Australia and the UK. Each of us has our own software set to our particular dialect. Trying to ignore all the little red lines while I'm proofreading gets really annoying---although I suppose it's a good exercise in discrimination. Is that a typo, or is that his/her normal spelling that's only underlined on MY screen?
But, as Darkstone says, it's no good sending something out without running it past another pair of (reliable) eyes.
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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?
A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
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Alassëa Eruvande
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May 24 2012, 4:40pm
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I didn't attend either school. I went to St. Mary's U. so all I get to tell is Catholic jokes. 
And suddenly the Tornadoes saw afar off a greenlight, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame;
and they knew that this was no vision only, but that PJ had made a new thing: The Hobbit, the Film that Is.
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DanielLB
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May 24 2012, 4:44pm
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DanielLB
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May 24 2012, 4:45pm
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I just can't find a clear answer on the internet 
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JWPlatt
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May 24 2012, 4:47pm
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Confused Words & Contradictions
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Here's a small list of commonly confused words:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/...monly-confused-words
But sometimes the word itself is at fault for being self-contradictory and ambiguous depending entirely upon, and even within, context.
For example:
Sanction:
a. Authorized
b. Penalty
How do you interpret "The action was sanctioned?" Was the action authorized or was it penalized for being unauthorized? Go figure. A good writer will understand this problem and make it clear.
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geordie
Tol Eressea
May 24 2012, 5:37pm
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* I mean, Hear! Hear!
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geordie
Tol Eressea
May 24 2012, 5:42pm
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I used to think a glacier was a bloke who fixed windows -
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- but then, I also used to think Hertz van Rental was a Dutch painter.
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dernwyn
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May 24 2012, 5:49pm
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announced he was going to lead an expedition to the Sun.
"But how will you withstand the heat of the Sun?" asked the U. Texas scientists.
"Ah, I've got that all worked out," he replied. "We're going at night."
Unfortunately, most of the jokes in that book are not repeatable on a family forum...
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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