Re: FN-FORUM: Make my decisions for me!

date posted 21st January 2005 20:46

Oops! Dictionary.com is US not British. Client is correct (or at least in
agreement with OED).

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----- Original Message -----
From: "david smith" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Make my decisions for me!


>
> Gavin, It's lose not loose! Once i'd have let pass by, but 6 times?!
> Sorry, it's been a bad day today with a client insisting that colorant
> should be colourant "because their competitors spell it that way"
> regardless of it being checked at Dictionary .com etc. There, that's my
> rant over as well.
>
> New to this freelance network malarky and have just "lurked" for a few
> weeks with just the ocassional (unfunny) comment.
> I'm afraid all the technical stuff goes straight over my head, so I
> probably won't contribute much to those threads.
> Find the recipes, cheese salad sagas etc riveting tho'
>
> 'til next time.
>
> Dave
> A budding grammar nazi with a particular aversion to misuse of
> apostrophes.
> (god, I hope I haven't made any errors in this)
>
>
> On 21 Jan 2005, at 16:31, Gavin Cotton wrote:
>
> >
> > WARNING RANT ALERT:
> >
> > I hate the way people use the word DIET........ There's is NO possible
> > way to go ON A DIET.........
> >
> > Everything you eat IS your diet, if you're fat and want to loose
> > weight then you simply CHANGE your diet. I think this is the problem
> > with people today, they think OK I want to loose weight so I'll GO ON
> > A DIET, which sounds SO like a temporary measure to simply loose the
> > weight!!!!! so what, you are going to GO ON THE DIET, loose the
> > weight, and then go back eating as you did and go back being a normal
> > fat bastard again OMG
> >
> > And as for people saying, I used this diet and it works.......... and
> > oh no don't do the Atkins, it's dangerous.......
> > Yeah, ok, the atkins is a bit of an odd one, BUT IF YOU FOLLOW WHAT IT
> > SAYS IN THE BOOK............it won't make you ill. These people that
> > just straight cut out the carbs permanately, or just stop for a month
> > and then binge on them, NO WONDER THEY ARE GETTING ILL...........
> > BUT, every one of these "diet" plans will not work for everyone.
> > Peoples bodies act differently to each food type, some people can just
> > cut out eating carrots, their body can process every other type of
> > food with storing up too much fat, they could eat loads of Big Macs,
> > and there body would just process it, but then if they were to eat
> > carrots it would just alter the chemical balance in their digestive
> > system, and they turn into a bloater.
> >
> > One of the best ways to work out what a good diet is for you is to
> > have blood tests and urine test that tell the specialists what type of
> > foods your body can't process fully, what gets stored as fats and so
> > on. There is a specialised place in London that does these test in one
> > day, and people loose shit loads of weight,. and then maintain a body
> > fat of around 16% and BMI of about 19, which is spot on.
> >
> > Plus, exercise, exercise, exercise, and where possible exercise some
> > more, but to be honest, with a perfect diet (and I mean diet not,
> > loose weight quick plan) normal walking around the shops,
> > up-the-stairs etc etc can be all some people need to do.
> >
> > OK RANT OVER
> >
> >
> >
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