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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1976)
Wednesday, fcptm&er 1, 1970. dzliy r.dbrzzten B m 4 ITS 4 f f i M I " T Ij if"- w ''J I i 1 El H ri II II II r - "-.A I - v . Mil mi j uy 11 Dy Theodore M. EcTrstchi Orerccme the reticence. Ifcre is a mimse cf reticent that wsj spotted by l!arian IfcDonald of Mason City, Iowa, and which the says she has noted fairly often: Tvery time I go to church or to a meeti.- cf any kind I wonder why so cany cf cs arc reticent to go c? front." That appeared in a newspaper cclc&a, the writer cf which lcu!J have known better. Eetieect means disseised to speak. The word the cchminist ciidcchte2y had ia Kind was ishs&st, which means arena or crrwZlms. fo pad. Tea ne?er smiled so good," said a teleridoa asvertirment and that eroded a pretest to the adrertcer from Janet Carper cf Cornish, Ihdne. he wrote that a sclecsn cf that sort rwerks against the elicits cf every EcIiii teacher . . . and every cMd who makes an effort to learn fee ErJidi lanna-e. To which the advertiser replied, Te asree with yea that it would be wonderful if everyone spoke perfect, rammatical English, bet lanssae is- a changing thin, constantly adapting itself to new thermits, new rales. A catchy' phrase sells products, and a company is in fcniaess to sell prcdacts. The snccess cf the Vinsten cemmereM Tastes pod like a dratte shcnlT was condemned and rhtly so. Ect ft sold cur ettes . . V First let it be noted that pad may properly be used after a linkm verb as an adjectiye modify a pre cedins ccun: Tier smle was caX" Est it may net pro perly be need as an adyerb rnodlfyirs a verh: llhsssled good, which is the way it b casd hi the dilated ad. That csae is rejected by an overwhelming percenter cf the crne panel cf the Arnersean Ilerita-e Dictionary. Second, there is no evidence that lan-aa-e is chanT toward aecrptanae cf that cse cf caad. Third, in the Winston ad the cse cf pad is in line wih the acceptable cse stated fosr sentences z3 and there is some evidence that the present objection to the cse of Ehe as a conjoction may be ij L.-r.ii LjSTO Cwj Cu. jiE2f AjA EX3 . X "82SS3 is taw as V $223 .5557 V1 53222 prrj . . k nil fecI;:zcTA,,Wi, EE Ata,-ii4S42 t:ahfisa,0' For the tro cf yea in 11 karat sli: dissaond trio sets wilh ES&fairtg vfadsHnj; . bands and rt?Trsert rirtj far her. " . a. 7 rrteisJ ttj est H73 - w c C?aasandcc&ait)ca&$S a 7 Convenient Ways to Day l 7 f M k l j v irnis . ' V.A!..:-.....J. 1323TTSI. - Ssudsnt ecountiKlcomI " softening a little. So the Winston ad offers Uttie in the way of support for the sml!ed so good ad. Fonrth and Icia2y, we con t need any nt:p from aavenrers to pni the Vhanns of lane; we cedd use their help better in settins an example for school kids cf edaaated EnIidi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 tjva that Ilere is an item that is not earthshahin;, not even fc&paifcshsfrfcgRalga Ktner, former homer-hit ter and now a TV annoimeer who covers theilets,caesa qoeer, thewjh dear, term when a baaehilllfessjseesinto. the stands. Inst ahont everyone else would ca3 it a cannd m!ea, or granrd rale, donh!e, bet he always calls it a rrada rsfe cout!e. It is hard to say he is wrens though Cictkmarks vote for gnssd (shinier). He mit retort that a vitins team plays on the home team's passda, therefore what is wrens wh creaadi rale? The answer is simpry mat prevalent csae favors g?sznd m!aa so we have to score his term an error. AfteraH,hewasahcmer' hitter but even blind Homer sometimes nods. 0000000 Aalar fm-earlaher. This one has to do wfth ad- is dressed cp and when he is dttiztd dam. Sometimes adverbs are quite meanincless or are mere intensive, as when we say, "I t c? a cisarette," or Trite Czrx yczt name. Ia short yocr choice cf which adverb to cse, if any, is sometimes pst a matter of idiom, a matter cf how fped yocr ear is for Enidi csae. f 00 0 0 Xlcsd cd!Ies. The expression dos in the man refers to someone who has something that he cannot or does not cse himseif bet wI not permit ethers to ere. Est why a "C03 in the manner"? The phraae ccmesfrom a b srnstein on voro's verb peculiarities. Then I am &imt my car down the street writes Vrsian G. cf OahfHd, N.Y "And come to a step lht and tahe my foot of! the gas pedal, do I slow ci shrar &Z2T Te are tempted to a lira. G. how she knows she is crrvms dawa the street rather than vrp the street. Eat we wB simply say that in both instances cier adverb w3 do; idieni a!!ows either. Her car mht have been loaded rp or loaded dawn with fcpe and wha she was drxrinj her home rnfit have been bnmed vy or burned dawn. Of cocrse, adverbs are net always interchangeable a that way. Yea can only speed cp, net down. And the sitcatiens are quite dulerent when a man fable abest a dog that ate none of the hay in a manner btrt wccSd not let an ox come near it. 0000000 Ifsfsn, To Adam. That kind of sentence,' wham reads the same backward as forward, is, as you know, a palin drome. George A. Eachetti, VZim EHmaker and George Vr.ioskis of Fhladelphia, who apparently grt tcether en Frank Clement's Tavern, have sent this way what they think is the longest foreign Ianjnae palindrome in exist ence. They say it Is enaved on the bni! ilnj containing the baptiamal font in the Chcrch cf St. Sophia in ancient Ccmmmtinep!e. It is in Greek and reads as fcZows (the asrerrk, which appears here twacer snhstimtes for the letter pd, a character that is imavadahle to moat news papr printers): "Ticn ancrnhmata mh mcnan on." The Eridi translation is grea as, "Cleanse the sod well asthebody." (d T378 Tfew tX Csmsssaa Cpnessl Fcssms j I O - - ' On ' n a. I 1 ' il W A W 7 rn 1 Me 0 CUS(!5l(2GffO y3 4 I r I X i . v Thces prices vrHI scd ens tsrr:2 cn!y until Sept. 3rd. Ws feci th3 Qutdity crJ Prices era ccmbincd to brirrj . ycu ths Cc2t Mzluz in cc!cuhrs cn ths rrrkct tcdzy. - f.ci'us csn flil sny csfcubsrs need. Step in sad ccrr.pcru end t:ko schentzs of thb cna-tims introductory offer srd sr.3 a bundb on ycr cz'zzihtzr needs for this school year. p fi : i 1 ? r", is:s i 1 'iii' 11 i iif Wi 1 lii'i. inii ' " - . i'vr vvi . 1 -1 1 t, 1 4, I r i I; V