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Post by jagvet on Nov 6, 2020 17:53:57 GMT -5
New peeve: After all this time working from home, we still routinely put in letters something like this:
The hearing was conducted by telephone due to the extraordinary, unexpected and totally annoying Coronavirus COVID-19, Wuhan, Pandemic (((Citation string longer than a VIN))). All parties agreed to participate by telephone. Claimant knowingly and intelligently (despite his severe mental impairments) waived his right to wait ten years for an in-person hearing. His representative, John Smith, a fine fellow, but not a great harmonica player, also agreed to appear by telephone. All parties appeared by telephone. Also appearing by telephone (as he always does), is Vocational Contractors, Inc., a vocational expert.
Can't we just say this? "Due to coronavirus, a telephone hearing was conducted. Claimant consented."
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Post by hellerfan1 on Nov 9, 2020 13:19:48 GMT -5
Pixie,
Do you feel more maternal or materteral when you moderate this Board? |
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Post by Pixie on Nov 9, 2020 18:08:49 GMT -5
Pixie,
Do you feel more maternal or materteral when you moderate this Board? As I look at all of you as my children, I would have to say maternal. Plus, I don't know what materteral means. Pixie |
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Post by tom b on Nov 9, 2020 18:44:36 GMT -5
Pixie,
Do you feel more maternal or materteral when you moderate this Board? As I look at all of you as my children, I would have to say maternal. Plus, I don't know what materteral means. Pixie The word itself might be related to the Latin noun "matertera," which is defined in Lewis and Short's A Latin Dictionary as "a mother's sister, an aunt by the mother's side." This noun is distinguished from "amita," which refers to an aunt on one's father's side. The wag in me places this in one of the "pettest" of pet peeves, namely, using a $5 word when a nickel word will do, all the more so because I had to resort to a Latin-to-English dictionary, not an unabridged Random House dictionary, to find it.
And if I might comment on JAGVET's post, why can't the record of the proceedings say something in plain English such as "the claimant consented to our conducting this hearing by telephone" (or words to that effect)?
Respectfully, Tom B
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Post by Pixie on Nov 10, 2020 8:08:47 GMT -5
As I look at all of you as my children, I would have to say maternal. Plus, I don't know what materteral means. Pixie The word itself might be related to the Latin noun "matertera," which is defined in Lewis and Short's A Latin Dictionary as "a mother's sister, an aunt by the mother's side." This noun is distinguished from "amita," which refers to an aunt on one's father's side. The wag in me places this in one of the "pettest" of pet peeves, namely, using a $5 word when a nickel word will do, all the more so because I had to resort to a Latin-to-English dictionary, not an unabridged Random House dictionary, to find it.
And if I might comment on JAGVET's post, why can't the record of the proceedings say something in plain English such as "the claimant consented to our conducting this hearing by telephone" (or words to that effect)?
Respectfully, Tom B
Please, not a Random House. No way would I ever open one of those. Only the second Websters' International from 1934 or the revised third edition from 1961. Both of these weigh in excess of 20 pounds and require their own dedicated stand. Those are real dictionaries containing only actual words. Pixie |
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Post by tom b on Nov 10, 2020 9:08:42 GMT -5
I'm duly chastened. But I'm willing to speculate (can't bet, of course, as during these times of pandemic my home is my federal workplace) that the Webster's you invoke doesn't contain that word, either.
I have many large (15-20 pound) single-volume lexica and dictionaries. When they are not in use, they lie on their sides, all the better to protect their spines. My days in the Smyth Classics Library in Widener Library have paid off.
Respectfully, Tom B
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Post by hellerfan1 on Nov 10, 2020 17:12:06 GMT -5
"Materteral" is to aunt as "avuncular" is to uncle.
I've never seen "amital."  |
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