The Official Complaint Thread!
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GhostofPotvin29
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This should be fun:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/free-network-tv-not-if-bell-gets-its-way/article2405422/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/free-network-tv-not-if-bell-gets-its-way/article2405422/
Leafaholic99
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LittleHockeyFan said:RyanSH said:
I'm forwarding this message to your boss.
jk
8)
lmao
Also thanks everyone for the support, I am still awaiting word on if I'm transferring out this summer or not and a job I applied for in Winnipeg closed yesterday, so hopefully I hear something back from them. Winnipeg next Friday, can't wait :-D
Complaint though: Never knew I was this terrified of heights before, I had to work 30 feet in the air on a man lift that rocked back and forth and my knees wouldnt stop shaking :/ If I can't perform my job at heights, might be time for a career change, something not as stressful as this job has been the last 5 years. Problem is, I have no clue what I'd want to go into :S I am good with numbers and have always wanted to have an office job, maybe accounting?
maplesyrup
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Got a disk from a friend with hundreds of great epub files on it. - Spent hours and hours importing the ones I liked to my e-reader app. - Thought since they were imported, I could then delete them from my downloads and was right... Until I did a software update.... Bye-bye files. 
Sucker Punch
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You guys, our language is being poisoned.
Thru is not a word. Neither is lite.
Also, lol is an acronym that describes an laughing out loud. You don't say "lol" any more than you would say "laugh out loud" instead of just laughing. And it has the unpleasant side effect of making you seem like a jackass.
Thru is not a word. Neither is lite.
Also, lol is an acronym that describes an laughing out loud. You don't say "lol" any more than you would say "laugh out loud" instead of just laughing. And it has the unpleasant side effect of making you seem like a jackass.
LittleHockeyFan
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Sucker Punch said:
LOL!
I see lite on yogurt, sour cream, cheese etc all the time. You wanna fix the language, start with the Kraft people
Guru Tugginmypuddah
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Sucker Punch said:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lite
Sucker Punch
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http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/lite?q=lite
Made up word. Should only be used when it is the proper name for something, as in Miller Lite. You don't lite a candle, and that couch you're lifting isn't lite.
Made up word. Should only be used when it is the proper name for something, as in Miller Lite. You don't lite a candle, and that couch you're lifting isn't lite.
Kin
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I think there's a difference between a word being "made up" and the vast majority of the language that evolved over time from other languages. Sure, at some point the greeks and latins and their ancestors had to invent words but even then I think there's a significant difference between a word that formulated to describe a new concept or technology and the gradual acceptance of slang.
The divide here is a familiar etymological dispute as to whether or not a language should view common usage as the evolution of the language or whether that should be a separate category of speech. I think too often the various camps there are divided too extremely as a language can still evolve without accepting common usage and the incorporation of common usage can still have standards.
Personally, I'd say that "lite" should probably be viewed a little skeptically as it's not really representing anything that "light" doesn't. In that sense it's less the acceptance of new slang then it is the acceptance of poor spelling.
The divide here is a familiar etymological dispute as to whether or not a language should view common usage as the evolution of the language or whether that should be a separate category of speech. I think too often the various camps there are divided too extremely as a language can still evolve without accepting common usage and the incorporation of common usage can still have standards.
Personally, I'd say that "lite" should probably be viewed a little skeptically as it's not really representing anything that "light" doesn't. In that sense it's less the acceptance of new slang then it is the acceptance of poor spelling.
LittleHockeyFan
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Ronco said:
didn't you mean whoot?
maplesyrup
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Damian said:
It's the coin that's holding her down.
The hybrid commercials that keep saying "I haven't gotten gas for my hybrid in a month" It makes no sense unless you tell how far you have driven! As an example I haven't gassed up my Lexus gas guzzler in over 6 weeks. Impressive hey, except for the fact that I was away for all six weeks and didn't drive it once!!! And then if you are being fair you paid an extra $10K for the hybrid version so you will have to drive over 100,000 kms just to break even for a normal driving person. End rant.