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Shelley wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:03 pm

So, is sologamy even legal?

In most places it's not illegal (as far as I'm aware), but it has no legal standing. So no additional deductions are available to sologamists: if they were, I assume that the vast majority of single adults would be married to themselves.

That reminds me of the intriguing phenomenon of sologamy, (i.e. people marrying themselves) — see, for instance, this 2017 story in The Telegraph.

Similarly, see also Robert Scheer 's article The Great Con of American Patriotism, which centres on his interview with Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen. There you'll find both an audio file of the interview (34'58") and a transcript. Below, I've reproduced Scheer's description of the interview's con...

Today, the estimable American investigative reporter Chris Hedges published this salutary critique (which I have reproduced in full below) of Peter Jackson's film They Shall Not Grow Old: -------------------- When director-producer Peter Jackson ’s World War I film, “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which ...

That's a flag pin.

Generically, it is a lapel pin.

Both sentences are grammatical.

Logically, people ought to say b), but often say a). However, because everyone who hears such an utterance intuitively understands that nobody has all those occupations at the same time, it's a case of a distinction that makes no difference.

I'd like to know more about why you ended up operating an elevator, Shelley. It sounds like there must be quite a story attached!

Phil, I admire your vehemence.

On the basis that Bach is a particular person's name, and that in principle it is reasonable to expect others to at least attempt to say one's name as one would say it oneself, it is a solecism to make no concessions to the name-owner's pronunciation even if that person is of a different nationality...

It means that his job obliged him to verbally announce the arrival of the elevator at the floor housing the department which sold women's undergarments. (Presumably, his overweening machismo could not withstand the mismatch between his hypermasculine self-image and his being associated — however ind...

Janitor (Mainly US)
Caretaker (Mainly UK)

The hours worked are incidental, i.e. they are not relevant to your question.

I believe the first definitions in the OED do not necessarily represent the main current meaning, but the earliest meaning (which may now be obsolete).

Yours. The other variant is barking up the wrong tree.

It is not a pretty film...but we promised them that we would not forget. And yet we have forgotten. By this I don't mean to imply, for instance, that Remembrance Day is no longer observed, but that all around the world, war continues to be waged and violent atrocities committed to such an extent th...

I've always known this as the doggy paddle:

"Can you do the doggy paddle?"