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'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76787/#msg_76787
"Rest here for a while" means "Rest here for a [parcel of time which is undefined, but usually short]"
"Rest awhile" has a very similar meaning, and I'm finding it hard to distinguish between the two. Yet they are different, certainly in the UK.
They are different parts of speech, though. In this case 'while' taking the indefinite article, is a noun, whereas 'awhile' is an adverb.]]>timmy2020-04-27T16:19:08-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76798/#msg_76798
American_Alex2020-04-28T13:50:05-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
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As an elderly English English speaker, I am quite unfamiliar with 'floutist'. I would take it to mean some who bends the rules.]]>The Composer2020-04-28T14:16:50-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
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timmy2020-04-28T14:35:58-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76801/#msg_76801
"American_Alex wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 14:50"
Yes, contracting "a while" into "awhile" is a typical Americanism, in that it corresponds closer to the spoken usage, as well as being just slightly simpler to write. As with most languages, the longer a change is used in 'the vulgate', eventually it becomes standard (this is how Latin became Italian...). Another example in American English is the spelling of the word "through", which is now spelled "thru" about 50% of the time. Likewise, "gauge" has now become "gage", "floutist" is now "flutist", etc. Time marches forward, and language changes.
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'Anæsthetist' seems to have contracted into 'anesthesiologist' in the march of some sort of progress and is harder to say and spell. But not in the UK, where we favour the shorter word.]]>timmy2020-04-28T14:39:02-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76803/#msg_76803
"timmy wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 07:39"
"American_Alex wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 14:50"
Yes, contracting "a while" into "awhile" is a typical Americanism, in that it corresponds closer to the spoken usage, as well as being just slightly simpler to write. As with most languages, the longer a change is used in 'the vulgate', eventually it becomes standard (this is how Latin became Italian...). Another example in American English is the spelling of the word "through", which is now spelled "thru" about 50% of the time. Likewise, "gauge" has now become "gage", "floutist" is now "flutist", etc. Time marches forward, and language changes.
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'Anæsthetist' seems to have contracted into 'anesthesiologist' in the march of some sort of progress and is harder to say and spell. But not in the UK, where we favour the shorter word.
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And of course Timmy inadvertently highlights another language morph by using the archaic spelling of favor as "favour" which is actually the longer word... 🤣]]>Teddy2020-04-28T20:21:22-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76804/#msg_76804
There is a difference between an archaic spelling and a nationally correct spelling.]]>timmy2020-04-28T21:23:34-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76805/#msg_76805
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https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76806/#msg_76806
The Composer2020-04-29T10:55:37-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76807/#msg_76807
timmy2020-04-29T11:50:34-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76808/#msg_76808
cm2020-04-29T12:57:15-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
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"cm wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 14:28"
'Favour' is English; 'favor' is American. Favour is not archaic, merely correct for users of British English.
--It was humor, People! Jeeezuss!!! LOL]]>Teddy2020-04-29T20:58:16-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76817/#msg_76817
Take the word colour/color. A large Part of the English language is French.
Couleur - pronounced cooler (French)
Colour - pronounced cull ler or cull la (British)
Color (American) is simply a spelling of the spoken word, although it could be spelt culla, but that seems a little too phoenetic.
One might say that language evolves in part due to lazy speech. The French open their mouths and articulate, the British are tight lipped, and the Americans either drawl or are just plain lazy and don't give a damn!]]>Talo Segura2020-04-30T08:39:12-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76819/#msg_76819
No -they merely have a stiff upper lip.]]>The Composer2020-04-30T09:37:59-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76821/#msg_76821
"timmy wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 10:39"
"American_Alex wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 14:50"
Yes, contracting "a while" into "awhile" is a typical Americanism, in that it corresponds closer to the spoken usage, as well as being just slightly simpler to write. As with most languages, the longer a change is used in 'the vulgate', eventually it becomes standard (this is how Latin became Italian...). Another example in American English is the spelling of the word "through", which is now spelled "thru" about 50% of the time. Likewise, "gauge" has now become "gage", "floutist" is now "flutist", etc. Time marches forward, and language changes.
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'Anæsthetist' seems to have contracted into 'anesthesiologist' in the march of some sort of progress and is harder to say and spell. But not in the UK, where we favour the shorter word.
--Actually, there is a difference between an Anesthetist (Am. spelling) and an Anesthstegiolist; The former is any person who is professionally trained to administer anestesia, whereas the latter is a professional specialty for an MD.]]>American_Alex2020-04-30T12:49:03-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76822/#msg_76822
"American_Alex wrote on Thu, 30 April 2020 13:49"
"timmy wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 10:39"
"American_Alex wrote on Tue, 28 April 2020 14:50"
Yes, contracting "a while" into "awhile" is a typical Americanism, in that it corresponds closer to the spoken usage, as well as being just slightly simpler to write. As with most languages, the longer a change is used in 'the vulgate', eventually it becomes standard (this is how Latin became Italian...). Another example in American English is the spelling of the word "through", which is now spelled "thru" about 50% of the time. Likewise, "gauge" has now become "gage", "floutist" is now "flutist", etc. Time marches forward, and language changes.
--
'Anæsthetist' seems to have contracted into 'anesthesiologist' in the march of some sort of progress and is harder to say and spell. But not in the UK, where we favour the shorter word.
--Actually, there is a difference between an Anesthetist (Am. spelling) and an Anesthstegiolist; The former is any person who is professionally trained to administer anestesia, whereas the latter is a professional specialty for an MD.
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Not in the real world.
]]>timmy2020-04-30T15:25:01-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76824/#msg_76824
The vast majority of anesthetists are Registered Nurses who have taken additional training in the administration of anesthesia and are titled Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA). Anesthesiologists are Medical Doctors who have graduated from medical school and they pursued specialty training (Board Certified) in administering anesthesia. CRNAs work under the supervision of a Board Certified Anesthesiologist.
The practical difference? Not very much, except the latter make much more money than for former in the American capitalistic health system!]]>Bensiamin2020-04-30T18:11:44-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76837/#msg_76837
capitol vs capital (and withing that, upper case vs lower case of the same words)
affect vs effect
There's something about those sets of words that I draw a blank on every damn time, no matter that I've studied it out countless times over the years. I've gotten to the place where I will try to rewrite a sentence or paragraph in order to avoid using the words at all! LOL]]>Teddy2020-05-04T20:26:29-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76838/#msg_76838
timmy2020-05-04T21:29:19-00:00Re: 'a while' vs 'awhile'
https://forum.iomfats.org/./mv/msg/9362/76839/#msg_76839
"timmy wrote on Mon, 04 May 2020 23:29"