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Mar 2023
10:42am, 24 Mar 2023
95,925 posts
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swittle
^  My handwriting as a child was so lamentable, that I regularly used the bold lined 'guidance' sheet to help form it more regularly.
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Mar 2023
10:44am, 24 Mar 2023
95,926 posts
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swittle
Re 'feint', I opened my Concise Oxford Dictionary and found 'feint' also listed as a verb: to make a false or sham blow in combat to fool an opponent. Swordplay came to mind.
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Mar 2023
11:02am, 24 Mar 2023
11,236 posts
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sallykate
I still have one of those lined sheets but A4 size - along with sheets of blotting paper scrawled with teenage doodles in ink (i.e. fountain pen ink).
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Mar 2023
2:21pm, 24 Mar 2023
2,792 posts
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Steve NordRunner
I feigned faint surprise, as my foe feinted, then thrust forcefully.
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Mar 2023
10:04am, 25 Mar 2023
21,052 posts
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RichHL
I lost the ruled sheet a couple of times and my letters were a slip-sliding, sloppy mess. It took hardly any time for my handwriting to slump down the page.
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Mar 2023
1:06pm, 25 Mar 2023
59,001 posts
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alpenrose
I think the word originates in France and has been anglicised.
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Jul 2023
4:00pm, 8 Jul 2023
22,547 posts
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ChrisHB
When a website wants you to accept cookies it says "Accept all". An imperative in form but I've always taken it to be short for "I accept all".
But now I have noticed that in Italian it is imperative in form (accetta) without the likely possibility of being short for anything else. Not that that has any bearing on English. French and German use an infinitive (accepter/akzeptieren) which is another way of expressing an imperative.
How can this have arisen? They are commanding me to do something and I click it in order to do it. Alternatively they offer "reject all" so in that case they are at the same time commanding me to do something else which I click in order to do.
Any thoughts?
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Jul 2023
4:04pm, 8 Jul 2023
62,781 posts
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LindsD
Good point. Am thinking
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Jul 2023
4:05pm, 8 Jul 2023
62,782 posts
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LindsD
I think I have always assumed it's 'Ich möchte acceptieren'/'je veux accepter'. Don't know about Italian.
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Jul 2023
5:14pm, 8 Jul 2023
98,392 posts
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swittle
With a resigned sigh, I gift yet another insignificant part of my life to what bills itself as 'the greater good.'
On Accept all, is it a question?
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