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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,397
    edited August 12

    The (United States) English language is full of odditties.  I like when comedians bring them to our attention.  Gallagher once mused: "Why are there a pair of pants, but only on bra?  And why do we park on the driveway, but drive on the parkway?"  laugh

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,411
    edited August 12

    Or in a train car things are "shipped", but on a boat it goes as "cargo".  And don't get me started on when to tell if something is "up", or something is going "down". 

    I'm sure some academician or equivalent comedian has labeled that phenomenon somewhere. indecision 

    Non-complaint:  Yay!  Tomorrow is laundry day.  Wheee..., breakfast at Burger King, laundry, drugstore, grocery, home.  Weather's going to be beautiful in the mid 70sF, clear, non-humid.yes

    Google AI to the rescue:  Yes!  The up/down and shipment/cargo things are called  "contronyms".frown

    Query:  What's one half of a pair of scissors called?   Ans: broken.cheeky

    CORRECTION:  I tried GoogleAI again and this time it said the previous explanation was incorrect, below is what it said this time.frown

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,973
    I have always been baffled by 'First cut a tree down, then cut it up'. Instead of having a tree, you have logs. Mad. Regards, Richard
  • zombietaggerungzombietaggerung Posts: 3,934

    DanaTA said:

    The (United States) English language is full of odditties.  I like when comedians bring them to our attention.  Gallagher once mused: "Why are there a pair of pants, but only on bra?  And why do we park on the driveway, but drive on the parkway?"  laugh

    The "pair of pants" thing is because when what could be called pants (pantaloons) were first invented, the legs were not connected to each other, thus A Pair of Pants. 

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 2,343
    I do wonder what is the difference between uptown and downtown. Or up the road and down the road.
  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,612

    To our friends in Europe: Is it getting dark where you are? I'm watching the eclipse on TV.

  • NathNath Posts: 3,039

    Charlie Judge said:

    To our friends in Europe: Is it getting dark where you are? I'm watching the eclipse on TV.

    Still about twenty minutes from the maximum (about 90% here), yes it's getting noticeably darker (and the cat is a bit agitated).

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 781

    I didn't notice any difference in outdoor light. I reckon it was fake news laugh

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,973
    We had supper in the garden. It got quite dim and all the birds settled down to roost for a few minutes. The dragonflies carried out some wild manoeuvres for the five minutes on either side of maximum (about 95% for us). Regards, Richard
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,137

    Got darkish here, but the sun had gone behind trees so we couldn't see it (without climbing onto the roof or the like).

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,387
    edited August 12

    On up/down:

    I can remember being told to "sit diwn and shut up" for the first time. I had heard each separately before, but together I got confused about the opposite directions and froze for a few seconds.

    My parents would never have been rude enough to say it like that, but a harried  first grade teacher with a bunch of wild 6-year-old boys to wrangle was a different story around 67 years ago. wink

    P.S. I saw the eclipse on TV. Still the safest way to observe, and I enjoyed it just as much as the last solar eclipse that I could see from my front yard.. 

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,411

    I've seen a couple of partial eclipses here in NY State over my lifetime, and I was here for the total eclipse last year, but it was somewhat disappointing because despite being total, it was behind heavy clouds.  Yeah, that one did get so dark that the wild critters quieted down, the street lights came on, and it was dark, really dark for a few minutes.  But unless I win the lottery and can afford to go meet one in the next few years, that was the last one I'll ever get to experience.  I did watch this one today, on TV.  Not the same though.

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