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Grammar pedants - help please.

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roberton Dec 2022 9:39pm, 10 Dec 2022 1,371 posts	Quote Pin roberton Pedantically, I don't think this is a grammar question
ChrisHB Dec 2022 10:08pm, 10 Dec 2022 22,109 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB it isn't, but we don't have a thread for oddities such as some of like raising.
Dvorak Dec 2022 2:19pm, 11 Dec 2022 26,275 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Whereas I would have interpreted manager in the "performing artiste" sense, which would have put yet a different spin on it. You could have gone for " 'er indoors".
ChrisHB Dec 2022 2:24pm, 11 Dec 2022 22,110 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB I ususally say 'my social secretary', that being the norm around here and therefore scarcely jocular and not clever. I think the answer to my original question is that 'manager' expresses a relationship whereas secretary, steward, butler, household manager etc are jobs.
GordonG Dec 2022 9:54am, 13 Dec 2022 9,507 posts	Quote Pin GordonG there's a report out today about the Tonga volcano in January. One quote is "We were getting lightening rates of up to 5,000 to 5,200 events per minute". the 'up to' and then a range always seems odd to me. Wouldn't "..of up to 5,200 events per minute" mean exactly the same thing?
swittle Dec 2022 10:31am, 13 Dec 2022 93,162 posts	Quote Pin swittle ^ Yes. '...rates between 5,000 and 5,200...' would give a more informative picture, maybe.
JCB Dec 2022 12:45pm, 13 Dec 2022 3,737 posts	Quote Pin JCB I think perhaps they just know the upper range is somewhere between 5000 and 5200 (or maybe slightly less) but don’t have accurate data.
GordonG Dec 2022 12:51pm, 13 Dec 2022 9,508 posts	Quote Pin GordonG I agree I'm sure that's what they're trying to say but it just seems a bit clumsy
GordonG Dec 2022 12:51pm, 13 Dec 2022 9,509 posts	Quote Pin GordonG JCB, sorry.
JCB Dec 2022 1:27pm, 14 Dec 2022 3,742 posts	Quote Pin JCB Definitely is clumsy. 🙂