Re: The Forecast

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:07:14 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 7, 3:53 pm, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 22:59:18 +0900, Paul D <p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 2007-10-05 12:32:17 +0900, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> said:

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:14:59 -0400, Ron Hardin
<rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

wunderground

Partly cloudy this evening...then becoming mostly. Lows 50 to 55.

What's wrong with this one? Perfectly normal clipped English. Typical
of spoken language.

Padraic

Where?

Wherever English is spoken. Gave several examples above. And now gave
another. I've heard the exact example given by Ron in several
locations by several meteorologists. Mostly in the NE of the US. It's
a simple case of leaving off a word when it is is obvious to all but
the most dense what's supposed to go there. Very handy when you've got
several important things to say and a limited amount of time to say
them in.

We all know that Ron isn't terribly conversant with colloquial
English, but you have to admit that omitting an _adjective_ and
leaving behind an _adverb_ is rather unusual. (And you didn't come up
with any examples of that in your two postings.)

Unusual, perhaps. But not at all impossible. An example: "Brian used
to be pretty clever, anymore not so". Dropped off the adjective pretty
neat if I do say so.

As for Ron being unconversant with colloquial English, that's well
known! It's probably the combination of unusual and not impossible
that has confounded him.

Padraic

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