>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Which brings the question of why the need to repeat the value, a zero-one tie is kind of impossible, right?
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Good question. This is why in tennis the score is "15 All". Maybe they should adapt it to other sports :)
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Although, watching the Wimbledon tournament, I've heard them say "15 each". And considering the odd scoring used in Tennis, I doubt anybody wants to use tennis as a role model. Why doesn't tennis just count 0, 1, 2, 3 like normal humans instead of love, 15, 30, 40? There's probably a historical story to it, but there is also such a thing as evolution.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Speaking of eaches... I'm still amused by "each" as a unit of measure. When the price is "$5/ea", how do I say "give me two eaches of..."? There's such a word in German, "St[u umlaut]ck", we say "komad" (a piece), but in English I have no clue, have to manage with "two of those". I don't know what to say when the unit of measure is a unit of one.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>You simply say, "Give me two." Or, better yet, "I'd like two please." Politeness counts.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>I thought it was always "Can I get ... ?" (barf). This is creeping in over here - I hear it at the sandwich shop amongst he younger cutomers.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>Yeah. I'm still waiting for a waiter or waitress to say, "No."
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>>>>>>>>>>>Or "I don't know what your abilities at obtaining are".
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>>>>>>>>>>I was in a restaurant with a friend and the waiter asked if I wanted more coffee. I said, "I'm fine". He said, "I don't care how you are. You want more coffee?" and he was grinning when he said it. I gave him a very good tip.
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>>>>>>>>>Family members have developed a nice habit if you start saying something with "Can I just say" of replying "No!" at that point.
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>>>>>>>>My two bugbears about BBC Radio 4 are:
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>>>>>>>>Someone is asked a yes/no question and they reply with the middle-class word for "yes" - "Absolutely"
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>>>>>>>>A cognisciento is asked to join in the discussion and begins his spiel with "I mean ...". He hasn't even said anything yet to qualify with an explanation!
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>>>>>>>Even worse. This morning on Radio 4 they talked about Picasso having painted Guernica after the bombing of the town in Spain by German fighters. Do they teach nothing to these people. Fighters do not bomb. Bombers bomb
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>>>>>>Many fighters were equipped with a single bomb during WWII. in WWI, the pilots dropped 'bombs' which were a form of hand grenade
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>>>>>Are you and Viv ganging up on me ? -)
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>>>>That's the basic issue and you fail. As a former Air Force lieutenant, I am truly disappointed by your mistake. What regiment did you serve in?
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>>>I don't believe you. I don't know about the USAF, or whatever country you served, but I've never heard of regiments inside an AF, certainly not the RAF; they have squadrons. There is "The RAF Regiment" but they're like RAF soldiers whose job it is to secure and defend air bases.
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>>I think the Army Air Corps (from whence came the USAF) took a lot of structure from the RAF, hence Squadrons, Flights, etc.
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>I think whence came the USAAF, thence the USAF, nicht wahr?

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