Cox Crow
Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
Monday, January 12, 2004Has My Social Capital Increased?
I know someone who knows someone who was on 60 Minutes.
10:02:44 PM # Google It!
Travel Plans
We're busy making our travel plans for the coming year, and ignoring the risk of a CWA strike. Some of our plans involve air travel. Mark Frauenfelder had some trouble with the TSA, and since incompetents in that bureaucracy are legion, it's a good thing that our daughters have traditional, WASP names.
3:45:41 PM # Google It!
Sunday Thoughts
Yesterday my wife was feeling sick, so I took the girls to Church by myself. That was strange. For one thing, I'm Protestant, specifically Presbyterian. I am still somewhat uncomfortable with the Roman Catholic ceremony, but no longer feel as out-of-place as I once did. Oddly enough, my favorite part of the ceremony is now exchanging a sign of peace, also known as the kiss of peace, where once it was my least favorite. Later, the Big Sister expected to go up to receive the Eucharist with me, since she does so with her mother. But the Pope regrets the divisions in the Church that prevent me from joining in Communion.
My daughter's expectations are more important than those of the Bishop of Rome. I carried the girls forward, and received the Host.
Then we went to Dunkin Donuts.
Then I packed the girls back in the car, and drove across the street to the Key Foods supermarket, for orange juice and a couple of other things. You would think that the International Organization of Soccer Moms and Chauffeurs would protest suburban developments that require them to reload their vehicles more than twice a day, particularly in regions of temperature extremes and other foul weather.
By the way, I think they have rain in Japan. You would think that the Honda engineers would take this into account when designing the CR-V.
3:03:59 PM # Google It!
categories: Family
Au Courant
Is it just me, or has the past tense become unpopular? Or, as the dictionary puts it
Usage Note: Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging,” as in Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary trial. A majority of the Usage Panel objects to hung used in this sense. In all other senses of the word, hung is the preferred form as past tense and past participle, as in I hung my child's picture above my desk.
I've observed other instances where it appears that the past tense is shifting, in both spelling and pronunciation. Either that, or the copy editors at major publications are incompetent.
9:58:16 AM # Google It!
categories: Language
