From: Spike (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Jun 22 2003 - 22:29:10 MDT
Damien Broderick:
At 02:30 PM 6/20/03 +0100, Steve D wrote:
>Too bad Bill, looks like another battle has been lost. I fear I'll have
>to give up insisting that "aggravate" does not mean "irritate/annoy" as
>well. However I am still fighting the good fight against the confusing
>of "rebutt" with "refute" (a very important distinction) and (vainly I
>fear) of "flout" with "flaunt".
...I think you're correct about `aggravate' being lost...
Damien Broderick [speaking for his ilk]
Hey cool, language experts to whom I can address my
pet peeves and questions! What part of speech is it
when someone starts a sentence with the word "hopefully"?
It appears to be an adverb, but I cannot figure out how
to diagram any sentence which starts with that word.
I am driven to distraction when some silly prole
says "Hopefully yakkity yak and bla bla." How should
it be correctly phrased? Should it be "I am speaking
in a hopeful or optimistic manner when I say yakkity yak
and bla bla?"
spike
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