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From: b.scott@csuohio.edu
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:38:57 +0800, Robert Bannister
wrote in
in
rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:
> On 26/08/13 1:47 AM, Brian M. Scott wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:20:59 +0200, Steve Hayes
>> wrote in
>> in
>> rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:
>>> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 02:21:07 -0400, "Brian M. Scott"
>>> wrote:
>>>> No, it isn’t. That reaction to the most common current
>>>> sense of is largely confined to those who are
>>>> both reasonably well-educated and *not* young. It’s almost
>>>> as big a giveaway of either age or pedantry as the reaction
>>>> ‘What, we’re going to bounce?’ in response to ‘We’ll be on
>>>> the ground momentarily’.
>>> That is a usage peculiar to certain parts of the USA, and
>>> is very confusing to people who are unfamiliar with it.
>> No, it’s quite general U.S. usage. In particular, it is
>> practically universal U.S. airline usage.
> The U.S. is not the world.
If you’ve not figured out that I’m well aware of that --
indeed, make a bit of a point of trying to be so -- you’ve
not been paying any attention at all. And even then your
comment is rather pointless:
The principal implication of my original statement is
correct: the reaction ‘What, we’re going to bounce?’ in
response to ‘We’ll be on the ground momentarily’ *is* a
giveaway of either age or pedantry. That it also signals
that the person having the reaction is very likely American
is interesting, to be sure, but it’s also independent of the
original observation. Nor does it affect my correction of
Steve’s assertion that the usage is regional in the U.S.
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