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Grand Designs quote

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:17pm on 08/04/2009
I'm always pleased when people use that easily-abused phrase, "throughout history" or one of its siblings correctly. From tonight's Grand Designs: "Throughout history, there are people who have been dead for centuries."
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posted by [identity profile] black-faery.livejournal.com at 10:21pm on 08/04/2009
Bugger. After no episode last week, I assumed that GD had finished. *grumbles*
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:33pm on 08/04/2009
I'd assumed the same, but C. had greater confidence and checked. Wasn't the best of episodes though. The house was - ungainly. It had its moments but - not the best. Download it from Channel 4's website? (If you have the right OS, of course.)
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posted by [personal profile] gillo at 10:26pm on 08/04/2009
That's the thing about history. Just one thing after another.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:32pm on 08/04/2009
Sometimes, historical things happen at the same time as each other. It's amazing!
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posted by [personal profile] gillo at 11:04pm on 08/04/2009
No. Really? What will they invent next?
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posted by [identity profile] juniperus.livejournal.com at 10:52pm on 08/04/2009
LMAO!
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 02:12am on 09/04/2009
And yet, that's not actually correct ...
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:04am on 09/04/2009
It's correct for the specific meaning of history as written history, which I'm willing to grant.
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 11:55am on 09/04/2009
Well, yes -- but do people ever really mean that?
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posted by [identity profile] tsutanai.livejournal.com at 03:52am on 09/04/2009
To quote the sample powerpoint a grad student made in training.

Since the dawn of time
People have used phrases, such as:
Since the dawn of time
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posted by [identity profile] rhube.livejournal.com at 07:05am on 09/04/2009
That's beautiful.
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posted by [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ at 09:26am on 09/04/2009
Oh, that is spectacular.
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posted by [identity profile] daisho.livejournal.com at 10:51am on 09/04/2009
A sage pronouncement, indeed.
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posted by [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com at 12:31pm on 09/04/2009
Bother, I missed him saying that. Either I wasn't paying attention or it was later in the programme at the point where I'd got bored and wandered off upstairs to buy Moomintroll books from Amazon.
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 01:23pm on 09/04/2009
I'm just waiting for one of my students to use that exact sentence now...
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