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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (79401)	12/2/2003 9:30:39 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I love that show! And I am a Tyne Daly fan-- since the days of Cagney and Lacy. I have discovered all the great old shows run on this one channel-- ER, Judging Amy, and of course, Law and Order, to which I have now managed to addict Dan. I am doing more ironing and housework than ever before to justify turning on the TV. I refuse to watch the news channels anymore. I wasn't kidding about stress. "Disinterest" interested me, as I didn't have a reaction like you did to it. Since my Fowler's is still sitting here, I looked it up. Not recognized as a problem by Fowler (1926), the use of "disinterested" to mean "uninterested" had become a matter of fierce controversy by the 1970s and 80s/ In "The Spoken Word (1981) I reported that the use "attracts more unfavorable comment from BBC listeners than any other word...with the possible exception of "hopefully" (reminder to self: must look up hopefully next) The problem was neatly pointed up by Julian Glover about his mother: "She;s also a word pedant, and I hate having inherited this from her. She corrects me firmly about 'disinterested' and 'uninterested'--" So you are either a word pedant or Julian Glover's mother. OH NO! I must be failing! I didn't even register Clay's grammar. I remember just hating that Joan Osborne song, "What if God Was One of Us" for the same reason. And it's still everywhere-- but I just sing it CORRECTLY if I sing along.