I know, but Kissyfur's exact words were:



which is true.

But entirely irrelevant to what we were actually talking about, as well you know.

It was Mr Russell "complaining", and me that pulled the definition. You can also look it up in the OED if you like.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570

It was Mr Russell "complaining", and me that pulled the definition. You can also look it up in the OED if you like.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570

You seem to think I'm disagreeing with the notion that a lot of dictionaries have updated their definition of 'literally'. I'm not.

It was Mr Russell "complaining", and me that pulled the definition. Just because something's online doesn't mean it's incorrect - you can also look it up in the OED if you like.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570

Then Mr Chris lumbered in and got it wrong, which he does literally all the time

Then what are you on about?

The affect of his idiocy effects us all.

I'm mulling over, at an abstract level, the concept of 'proving' the changed meaning of a word by quoting a dictionary definition and how potentially troublesome that is.

I'm mulling over, at an abstract level, the concept of 'proving' the changed meaning of a word by quoting a dictionary definition and how potentially troublesome that is.

As far as I'm aware, there's no 'official' English language. Oxford University Press can put what the fuck they like in their dictionary, and so can Collins etc.

I was listening to R4's 'More or less' the other day, and in response to pedants' letters about what proportion makes a decimation, the host noted that nobody complains about the tenth month being 'October'.

That's actually always annoyed me

I'm mulling over, at an abstract level, the concept of 'proving' the changed meaning of a word by quoting a dictionary definition and how potentially troublesome that is.

Those Romans were crazy.

I was listening to R4's 'More or less' the other day, and in response to pedants' letters about what proportion makes a decimation, the host noted that nobody complains about the tenth month being 'October'.

That's actually always annoyed me, especially as I sometimes have a weird mental block around translating month names into their number. September should be seven (as 'sept' is seven in French) and October should be eight (because oct) but they stubbornly refuse to line up properly. I don't mind December being twelve because it's easy to remember that with it being that last month in a year.

That's actually always annoyed me, especially as I sometimes have a weird mental block around translating month names into their number. September should be seven (as 'sept' is seven in French) and October should be eight (because oct) but they stubbornly refuse to line up properly. I don't mind December being twelve because it's easy to remember that with it being that last month in a year.

A boss of a service (£40k+ a year) was called into a meeting with her boss and another boss. It was scheduled for 9am so she turned up before 9 and sat on a chair in reception... She then proceeded to sit there until 4:30pm as the boss had forgot the meeting was scheduled! She even walked past twice during the day and ignored her!

Amazing!

Too funny to be ignored

Dude, you fucked a Skoda.

You may well have been taking my post more seriously than it was intended, Cras.

They used to be the 7th and 8th months, until the Romans added Jan and Feb.

The original Roman calendar has them as seventh and eighth until the 'extra' months were added by Julius Ceasar.

Schrödinger's Irony: when someone waits for the reaction before they decide whether they were being serious or not.

The original Roman calendar has them as seventh and eighth until the 'extra' months were added by Julius Ceasar.

The original Roman calendar has them as seventh and eighth until the 'extra' months were added by Julius Ceasar.

But the metre was initially defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole, so why use this kind of measurement and not AU?

Also, it was literally an Archer quote.

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The months of the French revolutionary calendar were pretty rubbish.
We're currently in the the month of mist.

Looking out of my window that would seem entirely appropriate today.

I don't like that the months don't have an equal number or pattern of days. What I suggest is that we have nine months of 36 days each, six weeks of a 6 day week per month (4 work days, two day weekend), and then the final, 10th month can be 41/42 (leap years) days long, with the additional five days all given over to the festive season and holidaying/beer pong.

Is that what you are going to ask the people that decided 31, 28 or 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 was a good idea?!?!

It's like asking why the UK road network isn't a grid system. If you were designing it from scratch then it's a good idea, but changing it now after thousands of years of refinement?

Not the same thing, sneaky editor. The U.K. road system changes daily and constantly evolves. The marking of days is simply outmoded, and as past measuring systems have been improved by the sensible metric system, so must the months of numbers and rock gods replace the gods of antiquity and their sloppy numbering shambles!