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Reginald

Moot and Mute

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I’m not a grammar Nazi but if I see one more person confuse “mute” for “moot” I’m going to go postal!

Moot ~ unable to be resolved (i.e. it doesn’t matter any more)
Mute ~ unable to speak (i.e. he is deaf and mute)

Proper usage:
The point is moot. :)He is a mute.

Improper usage:
The point is mute. >:(

Okay now I can sleep. Unless the bad dreams come back again, and again and again. :S
"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things." CP

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I know, we all supposedly took basic English in school, but realistically, unless the person you're bagging on is a professional writer, cut them some slack. People are in such a rush to type replies they fly right over mistakes. I personally have an issue where, if I'm typing really fast, I have a tendency to transpose letters.

Anyway, most of this crap falls on deaf ears anyway, so a lot of times the point might as well be mute.
quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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Ron:

DZ.com vocabulary:

-- To land a ram air canopy one must pull the breaks to flair the canopy. (Of course I would prefer to land with flair and without breaks!)
-- The PC is connected to the D-Bag by the bridal .
-- The to jumpers moved too the door, and I wished I could jump two.
-- Your going to like it when you have a custom built harness of you're own.


I find dz.com best read with a beer in hand. ;)

The choices we make have consequences, for us & for others!

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Ron:

DZ.com vocabulary:

-- To land a ram air canopy one must pull the breaks to flair the canopy. (Of course I would prefer to land with flair and without breaks!)
-- The PC is connected to the D-Bag by the bridal .
-- The to jumpers moved too the door, and I wished I could jump two.
-- Your going to like it when you have a custom built harness of you're own.


I find dz.com best read with a beer in hand. ;)



The problem is that everything is spelled correctly, so Mozilla doesn't put the little squiggly line under it.
"If it wasn't easy stupid people couldn't do it", Duane.

My momma said I could be anything I wanted when I grew up, so I became an a$$hole.

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