Re: 18m 10mm?


"tony cooper" <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:52:34 +1000, dj_nme <dj_nme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

ASAAR wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:49:05 +1000, dj_nme wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:15:03 +1000, dj_nme wrote:

Pot, is that you Mr Kettle?
You seem to have little idea as to what terms actually mean
OMG, did you really mean to say "Pot, is that you Mr Kettle?"?
You have absolutely *no* idea what that means. Think!

Hint: Nothing. It's not even black humor. If you're into denial,
the best you can do would be to claim a punctuation error.

Yeah, a colon after "Pot" would have pulled it off. Barely.

But it's
probably too late for that.
I claim that the Oxford Dictionary backs me up (the same as Neil
claiming that the Nikon website would do him for "prime lens") as
to my correct usage of of the Pot and Kettle simile.

It's a simple, excusable mistake that is frequently produced by
sloppy writers. That's one reason why editors are needed. What you
had in mind, or what you meant to write may be backed up by the
Oxford Dictionary (whatever that may be), but the fact remains -
what you actually wrote fails logically. As you failed such a
simple "Find The Mistake" test when it was placed under your nose,
I'm not surprised that you are unable to differentiate between your
assumptions and fact.

The fact that the "pot calling kettle black" simile is apparently lost
on you is profoundly amusing.
That Neil would accuse some-one else of falsely claiming something is
eminently appropriate for the "pot calling kettle" simile.

First of all, the pot/kettle saying is not a simile. A simile
compares by offering something like something else. "He has a soul
black as a kettle" would be a simile.

The pot/kettle/black saying is simply an idiom that is used to
describe hypocrisy. You evidently understand the usage, but you've
used it wrong in saying "Pot, is that you Mr Kettle?". You have pot
and kettle as the same person in that sentence. "Here is Pot calling
Mr Kettle black" would a way of using the idiom to identify two
different people with you as the observer.

Until he does so, it will still be "Neil (Mr Pot, in this case) calling
Chris (Mr Kettle, in this case) a liar" as both are equally "sooty" (by
being less than accurate or truthful) in this particular exchange.

There you go, but that's not what you used in the original.

I just hope all this talk of "Mr Pot" is not a snide reference to my
waistline. I'll admit I do need to take off a few pounds.

Neil


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