Heh, Connie, in doing my quizzes and studying, I found that it's verboten now in AP to use the phrase "illegal immigrant," since the word illegal should refer to actions and not states of being or persons.
I was all YAY!
Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strix - Jan 20, 2015 10:48:40 am PST #16301 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2015 10:49:21 am PST #16302 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
It is drunken, not drunk, driving.
Medical editing has ruined me for the colloquial use of "data" as singular (i.e., "The data is lost!" -- and even typing that makes my teeth itch). In medical writing, "data" is always ALWAYS plural, no exceptions, we don't care if NPR makes it singular, you make it plural or you die.
But most of the world makes it singular, which makes me twitchy.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2015 10:54:54 am PST #16303 of 30000
brillig
What phrase is used to denote a person who has entered the country without going through official channels?
erin_obscure - Jan 20, 2015 10:58:05 am PST #16304 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
unauthorized?
erin_obscure - Jan 20, 2015 10:59:50 am PST #16305 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
roasted beets are a wonderful thing to have around, and for some reason are delicious^10 when paired with goat cheese. I may be dairy-averse for the most part, but just the teeniest smidge of chevre on a roasted beet is a mini-holiday for my mouth.
meara - Jan 20, 2015 11:00:47 am PST #16306 of 30000
Undocumented
Strix - Jan 20, 2015 11:01:01 am PST #16307 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
They recommend a variety of options, all depending on actual specifity and context: [link]
Ginger - Jan 20, 2015 11:02:26 am PST #16308 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What phrase is used to denote a person who has entered the country without going through official channels?
AP style suggests avoiding such adjectives and instead saying how the person entered the country, e.g., Smith, who overstayed his student visa.
-t - Jan 20, 2015 11:37:48 am PST #16309 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I went out to pick up lunch and failed to bring both my badge to get back into the building and my pyhone to call someone else to let me in. Luckily someone I knew was at reception at the other end of the building.
After I got stuck at the RR tracks watching a train move to and fro for about twenty minutes, blocking the road the whole time. I only seem to see this happening at this particular crossing, I don't know what it's about.
Anyway, my reuben is delicious, although it would benefit from the addition of beets.
Jesse - Jan 20, 2015 11:50:00 am PST #16310 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do we need to have a muffaletta-style debate about what constitutes a reuben? Because it is not beets.
Also, I would like a reuben. I've been thinking about sauerkraut ever since I didn't have it for New Year's.