Assume v. Presume

[gomezz]

Do you prefer custard or cream with your desiccated desserts?

 

[Black Hole]

It still looks wrong!

 

[Trev]

Do you prefer custard or cream with your desiccated desserts?

Don't you mean 'custerd or creeme'

 

[Deleted member 473]

Don't you mean 'custerd or creeme'

Desiccated deserts, surely?

 

[gomezz]

Nope

 

[Deleted member 473]

Nope

I was thinking more like this

 

[Deleted member 473]

bringing everything down to the lowest common denominator .

Highest common factor, surely? The biggest thing we all have in common, small as that might be.

 

[Trev]

And it's probably 1

 

[Black Hole]

Quote from the telly regarding turbines for a tidal lagoon generator: "megawatts per hour".

 

[prpr]

Yes, I saw that as well. That came from the company that wants to extract energy from the tides. You'd think they'd know what they were talking about...

 

[Deleted member 473]

Remember "Based on NT Technology?" Where NT stood for ... New Technology?

What next? Hertz per second? The BBC Corporation? ITV TV?

 

[Deleted member 473]

Just saw this on an Amazon description:

• Size: Black

 

[prpr]

PIN number.
Tautologies R Us.

 

[Deleted member 473]

PIN number.
Tautologies R Us.

Like HDCP Protection and HDMI Interface?

 

[Black Hole]

I'm probably guilty of those. Only to be expected really, the acronym (or initialism) becomes the object.

 

[Black Hole]

Reprising the American "-ize": I notice the Star Trek spin-off is called "Enterprise"

 

[gomezz]

And the bugging system is not called Prizm.

 

[Deleted member 473]

And the bugging system is not called Prizm.

OK, gomess, we got the mezzage!

 

[af123]

After a colleague just asked me if I could expediate something, I enjoyed reading http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/expediate

(I would have said expedite which is what prompted me to look it up)

 

[Black Hole]

Good one. Another reason somebody might use it is to avoid sounding American!