Message Forum: Re: our evolving language

Re: our evolving language

Posted By: Howard, on host 72.155.109.22
Date: Saturday, August 26, 2006, at 18:20:13
In Reply To: Re: our evolving language posted by daniel78 on Saturday, August 26, 2006, at 11:39:10:

> > > A movie is now a "film" which is showed in a "cinema" instead of a theater.
> >
> I'm one of those diehards to whom "film" is something that goes in a camera.
>
> Dan "someone whose family owns 2 manual typewriters, carbon paper, 2 record players, and a few hundred records, many of which we still play" iel

I can't believe I used the word "showed" in that sentence. Terrible English. I would never say it that way, so I can't explain how it got in there.
How"red face"ard

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