Paging the grammar Nazis

It's common usage to "fax someone a copy" as well, precisely the idiot-speak
we're currently arguing. Being commonly used isn't the kind of qualification
that has any merit in this debate, imo.

Now get pedantic or **** off.

 

'fax' is a shortened version of 'fascimile', which itself is a verb (and
a noun, of course) meaning, 'to make a facsimile of'.

When you use a 'fax machine' to 'make a fascimile of' a document, you
are sending it via a telephone line. So in your example above, you're
saying, 'I shall [make a copy by fascimile] and sent that copy to you'.

So 'fax a copy' is no more incorrect than, 'I'll post you a letter'.

 

'send'

 

"Make" is a verb, "fascimile" (sic) isn't. And get back in your hole.

 

So that must mean it is (or will be) proper English.

Any pedantry other than my penantry just ain't pedantic enough eh?

Is that my pedantic or your pedantic?

Phil

 

No doubt. But until the dictionaries take it up the cause will be championed
by those valiant souls who would not go quietly into the night.

Yours is more anti-pedantry. "It exists, therefore it's intrinsically
correct". I don't think you've quite got the spirit of it.

 

From _The Oxford Concise English Dictionary_ (OUP) ...

'facsimile v.tr. ("facsimiled", "facsimileing") make a facsimile of *in
facsimile as an exact copy [modern Latin from Latin _fac_, imperative of
_facere_, "make" + _simile_, neut. of _similis_ "like"'

Apology accepted.

 

He bacardi be expected to get gin the spirit of it if you don't explain
the rules.

 

*wine!* [1]


[1] don't let me down, flash ....

 

That term makes my fucking shit itch.

What is wrong with "record", eh? Or even "tape", if a point could be
stretched. Or "to film", in the context of a camera.

 

It's just ... wrong.

Of course. Keeps me warm.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Pip

Life has never been the same since that Fox-Talbot bastard. Imagine the
sheer cheek of it; enabling just any old oik to make pictorial
representations, without having served time at the pestle grinding paint
for the master.

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Don't mention da guerre.

 

Fox Talbot had a studio here in Reading - there's a little plaque (not
a blue one) on the wall. Was he from here does any one know? Anyway,
it's not all his fault - what about Daguerre?

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Also v.tr. (sense 2), 'convert (a sound, broadcast etc). into permanent form
for later reproduction', from Latin _recordari_ 'to remember'
(_The Concise Oxford English Dictionary_)

 

But the verb record and the noun record are even pronounced differently.

Tape= the tape within the small, square plastic box.

 

"time shift"

BTW, do you dial phone numbers?

 

porl barfed:

"re-cord" & "ree-cord". Yes, I thought of that just as I hit the send
button

See? Billions of bloody definitions for the same words. English sux!

(or
"re-cord" - medium for storing analogue audio information
"tape" - magnetic medium for storing analogue audio information
"video" - magnetic medium for storing analogue video & audio information
is the what those words mean in my head)