joemoser1948

Anybody know how to delete connections from my Linked-In account?

I'm looking for answers from experienced husbands/wives but welcome any comments. I am going to try to ask this question in as neutral a way as possible:

Who does/should organize a husband's drawers - the husband or the wife?

If the answers favor MY side of the questionI won't share with her (don't believe in the "I told you so" attitude, particularly in a marriage), but if they favor HER position, I will admit my error to her.

I must admit that I suffer the deficiencies of an education in The Colonies and have only limited experience with Brit conversations (i.e., face-to-face interaction with an RAF Wing Commander boss and a handful of British enlisted persons between 1977 and 1980) but I don't recall a significant difference in vowel pronunciations. I thought we shared Long and Short vowels (e.g., respectively "o" as in 'coat' and "o" as in the "a" in 'all'). So I was literally shocked to receive this extract from a message:

I will just reiterate that, in ENGLISH pronunciation, the words I used in my answer - Mort caught short quart port bought overwrought fraught sort wrought wart nought thwart sought thought fought distort contort snort cavort sport brought court taught support - all have EXACTLY the same vowel sound and they therefore rhyme.

Could you people who speak "proper English" (as my Wing Commander observed when he bequeathed me an Oxford dictionary, upon his departure) please comment on the above assertion, thus helping me learn.

Whenver I try to edit an earlier response, and the box only allows me to select Preview, it rejects all of my edits. Anyone else having this problem?

My wife's e-mail account has apparently been hijacked by this Russian? website that regularly sends e-mails to people on her contacts list, seemingly coming from HER but actually containing advertisements for this fraudulent drug-ordering website. Has anybody found a way to get this practice to stop?

I live in southern New Jersey, and maybe this question is just another sign of my advancing senility. But it seems as if the southern-aimed migration of geese (which are the species I notice, though I know other birds fly south for the Winter) seems to be more confused this year - more so even than the last few. It seems that I haven't seen nearly as many flocks headed toward the southern climes and flocks that seem to head north-by-west as often as they head south, and we are well into Winter. Anybody se the same thing I think I'm seeing? There has GOT to be someone here who knows more about this than I do.

My uncle bought a new HD television and when the commercial broadcast stations switched to digital, a strange problem has arisen. On one of the "main" network channels (ABC, I think) in the New York City area gets this translucent black "box" on the screen, that usually stays blank but sometimes displays text exchanges. It pops up; stays there a minute or so, than goes away, only to reappear a few minutes later. It seems to have something to do with propagation, and is worse on cloudy or rainy nights. Any body have any idea what might be causing it? More importantly, any suggestions on how to keep it from happening or ways to get rid of it for longer periods of time, if prevention fails?

I have noticed a trend, particularly apparent in the last 10 years or so (I'd say) to expand perfectly useful words, in an apparent attempt to sound more educated than one really is. At first, I thought it was just a few less-than-well-educated people making understandable flubs. The archetypical example are perfectly-capable police officers (e.g., who walk a beat or ride in patrol cars) who attempt to inflate their language in testimony or arrest reports, to appear more "professional." But then I began to see college graduates using words like orientate, instead of just orient. An example came to me in a YA question today, where the ask-er used the word "cohabitate" and several answerers carried that forward. In researching via the Internet, I found that that word is now appearing in a few dictionaries though many of those merely "define" it by presenting the original word - COHABIT. I can see that many (most) of these "new" words are verbs derived from the nouns that had to be created (e.g., orientation, cohabitation) but I just wondered if anyone sees the same thing I do, or whether it might just be another sign of my growing fogeyishness. (Yes, I know that is an artificially-generated word but I just don't know the correct form of a word for the sate of being an old fogey.)

Where did this language crudity come from? Is it like some childhood disease that will go away once they grow up?