You "Nice Guys" are such LOSERS
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Re: You "Nice Guys" are such LOSERS
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Re: You "Nice Guys" are such LOSERS
http://grammartips.homestead.com/imply.html
And:
http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/implygloss.htm
And from your link:
"Usage note:
Infer has been used to mean “to hint or suggest” since the 16th century by speakers and writers of unquestioned ability and eminence: The next speaker criticized the proposal, inferring that it was made solely to embarrass the government. Despite its long history, many 20th-century usage guides condemn the use, maintaining that the proper word for the intended sense is imply and that to use infer is to lose a valuable distinction between the two words.
Although the claimed distinction has probably existed chiefly in the pronouncements of usage guides, and although the use of infer to mean “to suggest” usually produces no ambiguity, the distinction too has a long history and is widely observed by many speakers and writers."
I'm a pedant, which makes me BOVVERED!
Sorry.
Last edited by littlejimmy; May 2nd 2009 at 11:52 pm.
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Re: You "Nice Guys" are such LOSERS
God. You try and educate people and they go on about Gay(Time)Lords.