So how much memory am I bogging down if I didn't down save my photos b4 putting them on MyNorth?
At 4:29pm on October 9th, 2008, Kevin Farron said…
Hey Mike. I quickly put this together and thought you could improve it. Check it out, it's long overdue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traverse:_Northern_Michigan%27s_Magazine
Weather on this side of the world is cold and rainy! Great photos on your site!! I'm waiting for my son to get some time to help me with mine - remember I'm "technologically challenged". Of course, how could YOU forget!!
At 2:50pm on September 26th, 2008, Diane Kolak said…
Whoa, take it easy! I presented that little ditty as support for both our positions. I was not implying you were wrong. ;)
At 2:02pm on September 26th, 2008, Diane Kolak said…
Here's the full story, if you really want to know. Terribly interesting stuff.
merriam-webster.com:
Sir Thomas More is the first writer known to have used both infer and imply in their approved senses (1528). He is also the first to have used infer in a sense close in meaning to imply (1533). Both of these uses of infer coexisted without comment until some time around the end of World War I. Since then, senses 3 and 4 of infer have been frequently condemned as an undesirable blurring of a useful distinction. The actual blurring has been done by the commentators. Sense 3, descended from More's use of 1533, does not occur with a personal subject. When objections arose, they were to a use with a personal subject (now sense 4). Since dictionaries did not recognize this use specifically, the objectors assumed that sense 3 was the one they found illogical, even though it had been in respectable use for four centuries. The actual usage condemned was a spoken one never used in logical discourse. At present sense 4 is found in print chiefly in letters to the editor and other informal prose, not in serious intellectual writing. The controversy over sense 4 has apparently reduced the frequency of use of sense 3.
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So how much memory am I bogging down if I didn't down save my photos b4 putting them on MyNorth?
merriam-webster.com:
Sir Thomas More is the first writer known to have used both infer and imply in their approved senses (1528). He is also the first to have used infer in a sense close in meaning to imply (1533). Both of these uses of infer coexisted without comment until some time around the end of World War I. Since then, senses 3 and 4 of infer have been frequently condemned as an undesirable blurring of a useful distinction. The actual blurring has been done by the commentators. Sense 3, descended from More's use of 1533, does not occur with a personal subject. When objections arose, they were to a use with a personal subject (now sense 4). Since dictionaries did not recognize this use specifically, the objectors assumed that sense 3 was the one they found illogical, even though it had been in respectable use for four centuries. The actual usage condemned was a spoken one never used in logical discourse. At present sense 4 is found in print chiefly in letters to the editor and other informal prose, not in serious intellectual writing. The controversy over sense 4 has apparently reduced the frequency of use of sense 3.
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