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Complimentary medicine

cajela

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cajela
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I think Randi is onto something here.
http://www.randi.org/jr/080505potential.html#6

When you go see the doctor, they should say "my, that is a pretty dress you are wearing" and "I can't believe someone as sick as you looks so good" and "I see you are very intelligent so I won't offer you any homeopathic remedies." A few free samples of the appropriate medication wouldn't go astray either, especially for you poor deprived Americans.

Way better than complementary "medicine" any day.
 
Googling "complimentary medicine" gives 721,000 hits. :D
(though many of the hits are actually for "complementary medicine")
So Randi is not alone.

However, Googling "complementary medicine" gives 5,640,000 hits.
So, most manage to get it right.


BillyJoe
(I had to resort to googling......because dictionary.com is down. :D )
 
Damn! :mad:

I was all set for a smug, condescending, pedantic rant. Only to find that cajela knew what she was saying all along. :p

I love to pull people up for this mistake as I've made it myself - more than once :o
 
cajela said:
When you go see the doctor, they should say "my, that is a pretty dress you are wearing"
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I'd smack him in the chops. How dare he be so "lookist". I'll wear any dress that pleases me! :D
 
I'm enough of a spelling and grammar Nazi that it bugs me when used consistently wrong. Randi doesn't do that, so I just made a joke of it. Heh, anybody can make a tyop.

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Whee! look, 100 posts! Yay me!
 
Cajela,

Just noticed you are from Canberra. Not as well known as Mooroolbark but, hey, we can't all be so lucky. Looks like if could also have an aboriginal derivation. The translation of Mooroolbark is, of course, very well known to the whole wide world, but could you perhaps enlighten us about the obscure origins of Canberra.

thanks,
BillyJoe
 
Did you check Nazi?
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Why would I have posted what I did if I had not done so?
Obviously, I believe I found an error.

Were I actually a S/G nazi, I would check lots of posts, rather than just the ones where someone claims to correct another's spelling or grammar.

Since that was actually my very first "correction" post, I hardly
think I qualify as a nazi.

On top of all that, the smiley meant I was joking anyway.....

I do note that Randi put the term in quotes.
 
Just getting my posts up - I want my avatar!

So what is the well known derivation for Mooroolbark?
The bark of the wild dog Moorool?
Or the Moorool tree?

It is suspected by some experts that Bulleen, Balwyn and Buln Buln (the name of the local billabong around there) are all derived from the same aboriginal word - even though Balwyn is/was a well known european name.

Canberra?
If you can bear her!
 
"Nazi" is usually capitalized.
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Only if you are referring to an actual Nazi.

From Merriam-Webster:

1 : a member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler
2 often not capitalized : one who resembles a German Nazi
- nazi adjective, often capitalized
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I could understand your pursuit of me if I were an S/G nazi, but I clearly am not.

I was clearly joking in my post about cajela's inadvertent grammar error.
 
FD,

Flange Desire said:
So what is the well known derivation for Mooroolbark?
The bark of the wild dog Moorool?
Or the Moorool tree?
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Red Earth.

We used to have the "Red Earth Festival" just down the road
from where we used to live, but insurance premiums killed it. :(

Did you ever go?

BJ
 
cajela said:
I'm enough of a spelling and grammar Nazi that it bugs me when used consistently wrong. Randi doesn't do that, so I just made a joke of it. Heh, anybody can make a typo.

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Whee! look, 100 posts! Yay me!
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:D
 
I believe the adverb, "wrongly" would be more appropriate in that post. Woe is me. Standards continue to slide. On some days, one wonders if it's worth the trouble to soldier on...

(Signed. S. Sam. Life President, the Depressed & Ironic Pedants' Society)
 
Soapy Sam said:
I believe the adverb, "wrongly" would be more appropriate in that post. Woe is me. Standards continue to slide. On some days, one wonders if it's worth the trouble to soldier on...

(Signed. S. Sam. Life President, the Depressed & Ironic Pedants' Society)
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"Wrong" can be an adverb, according to dictionary.com (as well as an adjective, a noun, and a transitive verb).

Bill
Vice Chairman of the Still Contentious And Meddlesome Pedants' Society
 
Soapy Sam said:
(Signed. S. Sam. Life President, the Depressed & Ironic Pedants' Society) [/B]
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Can I join your club? I'd like to be pedantic, but I can't be bothered because it's too depressing.

Oh, and if anyone cares, Canberra is supposed to mean "meeting place".
 
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