Re: OT: compliment vs complement

Haven't personally attended such a class for quite a while -but Strunk &
White still rule IMO!
Roberta in D

"Ruth in Happy Camp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Oh, dear old Strunk!  Is that book still being used in English and writing
> classes?
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> Ruth in Happy Camp
> "Roberta Zollner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > From "The Elements of Style" 3rd edition, p. 48:
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> > "This once-useful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted and is
now
> > widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped'. Such use is not
> merely
> > wrong, it is silly. To say 'Hopefully I'll leave on the noon plane' is
to
> > talk nonsense. Do you mean you'll leave on the noon plane in a hopeful
> frame
> > of mind? Or do you mean you hope you'll leave on the noon plane?
Whichever
> > you mean, you haven't said it clearly. Although the word in its new,
> > free-floating capacity may be pleasurable and even useful to many, it
> > offends the ear of many others, who do not like to see words dulled or
> > eroded, particularly when the erosion leads to ambiguity, softness or
> > nonsense."
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> > Roberta in D
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> > "LN (remove NOSPAM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > What's wrong with Hopefully?
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> > > LN in NH
> > > a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér
> > > all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts!
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> > > "Roberta Zollner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > IMO "hopefully" is worse than irregardless ;-)
> > > > Roberta in D
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