Assume v. Presume

[Black Hole]

The hem has come undone on my trousers, but I have a needle and thread, sew...

 

[Black Hole]

So, all fixed now.

 

[Deleted member 473]

So, all fixed now.

Listen to hem! Hem going to ignore these trivial details. This isn't twitter!

Just made a cup of tea.

 

[gomezz]

The hem has come undone on my trousers, but I have a needle and thread, sew...

One of the back patch pockets on my work trousers is starting to come adrift. Can you help?

 

[Trev]

Throw it a lifebelt

 

[Deleted member 473]

It's raining. Can you come and fix it?

 

[Black Hole]

The rain is the result of the needle holes when I patched the sailor's breeches.

 

[Luke]

Just made a cup of tea.

Presuming that you made it to be drunk and that it was you who was going to drink it, have you drunk it yet? Was it OK? Do you think that you will be making a second one sometime?

 

[RobH1]

I'm having a brew now after having done something useful. When I've finished I'm going to do something useful again.

 

[HarveyB]

Aren't we drifting into twitter territory here

 

[Black Hole]

I can't decide whether there has been an almighty "woosh" on their part or on mine.

 

[kevindickinson]

If we were delving in to twitter mode would that not mean that we were limited to one hundred and forty characters? Clearly we are not limit

 

[Black Hole]

The hard disc span down on my parents box at least, so that mitigates against it being half awake.

No it doesn't, and it's "disk".

 

[raydon]

And spun is past tense for spin. Span is a bridge or a period of time.

 

[kevindickinson]

Span is the width of a hand or a Norwegian pop group but defiantly not a bridge. Possibly what a bridge does?


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[Black Hole]

Can we get back to why some people think 'mitigates against' means provides evidence supporting the counter-argument?

 

[kevindickinson]

I think people confuse it with militate against


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[Trev]

Easily done apparently. Personally I have not come across the term 'mitigate against' otherwise I would have thought 'What the hell is that person talking about. That just does not make sense'. Obviously, the perpetrator of the ex[pression has no idea what mitigate means, or they would realise that 'mitigate against' is a nonsense.

 

[prpr]

If we were delving in to twitter mode would that not mean that we were limited to one hundred and fourty characters? Clearly we are not limi

Forty is one more than thirty-nine.

 

[kevindickinson]

Forty is one more than thirty-nine.

#corrected