Strewth the spelling of English is weird!

[spacesailor]

The 15 th earl of , hang on , its named by the Viking clan .

Before the English had ' earls'.

Before " Robin hood " it was the ' ferry ' over the Derwent river . With ' maid Marian's ' nunnery. 

And , Derby when those Roman invaders put the " Roman North road " upthe centre of England .

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

More importantly, Derby was where Rolls Royce built 2,422 Bentleys between 1933 and 1940.

 

[spacesailor]

I lived outside of their '' Sinfin " factory.  Even worked there for a while . Before that I worked for a concrete Contractor,  pouring ( bubbley ) aerated concrete as a 

' sound deadener ',  over the jet testing facility .

It work well , as the ' whine ' was tamed .

spacesailor

 

[red750]

[facthunter]

Very few DO "SCIENCE". it's just another "Belief".   (and THEY  still get to vote.) Nev

[nomadpete]

7 hours ago, facthunter said:

Very few DO "SCIENCE". it's just another "Belief".   (and THEY  still get to vote.) Nev

Opinions rule this world, Nev.

[facthunter]

Murdoch printing KNOWN untruths. Trump running a "Birther" claim against OBAMA He admitted he knew it was false but he said "It did the Job".  It's FRAUD of course when gains are made from such behaviour.  Nev

[nomadpete]

42 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Murdoch printing KNOWN untruths. Trump running a "Birther" claim against OBAMA He admitted he knew it was false but he said "It did the Job".  It's FRAUD of course when gains are made from such behaviour.  Nev

You Are right, Nev.

 

It's rampant. It's manipulatiIt's It  blatantly unconscionable. It's sinister. It's not controllable.

 

And it's  everywhere.

 

Before I go out and slit my wrists, is there anything WE can do to stop this runaway train?

[facthunter]

It's maybe the biggest problem WE all face. Hoping time wounds ALL heels. Rupee and his ilk have done immeasurable damage.  What's Putins WORD worth? Nothing.   Nev

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[red750]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/4385148998399680

[willedoo]

Maybe not the correct thread for this, but it's regarding the word 'unprecedented' which has become a very overused buzzword these days. I always thought the word was fairly straight forward, eg: something is either unprecedented or it's not unprecedented (in another term - precedented). But not so, the BBC has taken to using the term 'almost unprecedented'. The way I interpret it, 'almost unprecedented' is precedented, same thing.

[facthunter]

Unique is a word like that. But I'm not sure about unprecedented. Killed  can be almost Killed where you are almost dead.  with Camouflage you can be almost invisible. . Nev

[old man emu]

 

 

You may of heard of the use of the word 'precedent', meaning "thing or person that goes before another". Specifically in law, "a judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases". Another example would be in the description of the Wright Brothers' 1903 flight. When that flight took place there was no precedent they could rely on to suggest that the combination of factors that lead to the success of that flight would be successful. Therefore the succes of that flight was unprecedented.

 

To figure out what 'unprecedented' means you have to have a look at its etymology. 

early 15c., preceden, "lead the way; occur or exist before, go before in order of time," from Old French preceder and directly from Latin praecedere "to go before," from prae "before" (see pre-) + cedere "to go".

 

From an examination of the frequency of use of the terms 'precedent' 

 

and 'unprecedented' you can agree that it has become a buzzword.

 

Buzzword: also buzz word, 1946, from buzz (n.) + word (n.). Noted as Harvard student slang for the key words in a lecture or reading. Note its level of useage:

 

[Marty_d]

I'm a little surprised at 1820's spike in the "unprecedented" graph.

Whenever I've read or heard the use in a historical context it has been "without precedent", not "unprecedented".

[willedoo]

It looks like the younger generations have latched on to the term 'old school' in a big way. It's cropping up everywhere on FB Marketplace lately. If it's 20 years old, it's old school, if it's a piece of junk it's old school. I've even seen people advertising some worn out tyres as old school. Not talking vintage tyres, just ones that were taken off a vehicle 15 or 20 years ago. These trends spread quickly. Sellers and potential sellers see others using the term and figure they can get a premium price if some sucker thinks it's 'old school'.

[nomadpete]

You sound like you are definitely old school.

[old man emu]

Furniture from the 50s is called Mid-Century Modern. 

 

Speaking of words we use without really knowing what the thing is the word describes, would you know what an algorithm was if you tripped over it?

[nomadpete]

1 minute ago, old man emu said:

would you know what an algorithm was if you tripped over it?

It'd have to be a solid algorithm for me to trip over it.

 

The algorithms I've met were just ones n zeros.

[nomadpete]

PS 

of course 1950 is mid century. Exactly halfway between 19 hundred and 20 hundred.

 

Which makes me both 'old school' and 'mid century'.

[old man emu]

3 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

of course 1950 is mid century

What about this? We are living in the second quarter of the 21st Century.

[nomadpete]

Just now, old man emu said:

What about this? We are living in the second quarter of the 21st Century.

And I've had 3/4 century. So far. 

The mind boggles.

 

 

[facthunter]

C'mon Share it. What are you People ON?  Nev

[nomadpete]

28 minutes ago, facthunter said:

C'mon Share it. What are you People ON?  Nev

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm on my seventh decade. Does that make me decadent? (This is the thread for language confusion)

 

2 hours ago, nomadpete said:

We are living in the second quarter

Do we change sides for the second quarter, or is that in the second half?

 

English! - she is a silly language.