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Easy home-made pizza (with picture). Eat your heart out.
Victor Sack wrote:
> <Alan> wrote:
>
>> (Victor Sack) wrote:
>>
>>> <Alan> wrote:
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>>>> The reason they are pizzas is that people call them "pizza."
>>> Is it a good idea to follow the example of those people? The same
>>> people also call raw, unformed minced/ground meat either "hamburger or
>>> "sausage",
>> absolutely not true.
>
> What *exactly* is "absolutely not true"?
>
>> Hamburger, yes. Sausage, no.
>> Sausage, as we ALL know is spiced an flavored.
>
> Did I say anything about spices and flavourings, or lack of them?
>
> Besides, what "you ALL" know is not necessarily related to reality. You
> do not really mean that no unspiced and unflavoured sausage exists?
> What if you stuff unspiced, unseasoned minced meat in casings... won't
> it become a sausage by definition? Not that it matters in this case...
>
> You might also want to acquire a good dictionary (I believe I already
> told you that). Here, for example, is what the Compact Oxford English
> Dictionary (which is based on The OED) says:
>
> sausage
>
> * noun 1 a short tube of raw minced meat encased in a skin, that is
> grilled or fried before eating. 2 a tube of seasoned minced meat that is
> cooked or preserved and eaten cold in slices. 3 a cylindrical object.
>
>>> and they also call anyone learning in any kind of educational
>>> institution "students", even if they are just schoolchildren.
>> The word means that.
>
> Only in America. Did you actually read my post? Did you comprehend it?
> These are, by the way, rhetorical questions, so just re-read the
> paragraph you quoted below - about the yet another example of the
> general supplanting the particular in the American version of English.
>
> Quotation from the same dictionary:
>
> student
>
> * noun 1 a person studying at a university or other place of higher
> education. 2 chiefly N. Amer. a school pupil. 3 before another noun
> denoting someone who is studying to enter a particular profession: a
> student nurse. 4 a person who takes a particular interest in a subject.
>
> BTW, these are not just British examples, but international-English
> ones. International Student Cards are issued only to university or
> college students; International Scholar Cards are issued to school
> pupils.
>
>>> As I said many a time in similar cases, this is yet another example of
>>> the general supplanting the particular in the American version of
>>> English. Sooner or later, everything will be called "Alfredo", anyway.
>>>
>> Huh?
>
> You mean you not only lack reading comprehension but also a rudimentary
> sense of humour?
>
>>> But then, I am also a language snob. :-)
>> Language snot, not snob.
>>
>> Well, perhaps, both.
>
> I told you already that getting defensive out of ignorance or inability
> to appreciate differences in words or concepts does not reflect well on
> you.
>
> Victor
Relax chaps! It's only a pizza (or sausage or whatever)
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
<www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont>
"It's not that I think stupidity should be punishable by death. I just
think we should take the warning labels off of everything and let the
problem take care of itself."
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