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In case Jerry F. is reading, no claim that this is an eggcorn. But it's funny. I was just watching a previously recorded "Steven Colbert Report" where Garry Kasparov was the guest. Garry was promoting his new book. Steven asks Garry why he wrote the book, and Garry explains that he was trying to explain his algorithm of decision making. The closed captioning read "my Al Gore rhythm". Castling here...anywhere else I wouldn't worry about writing "previously recorded". Obviously, if it was recorded, it was recorded previous to my watching it. "Previously", though, does at least wave at the fact that the recording was made some time back and I'm just getting around to watching it.  SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL Tony Cooper: > I was just watching a previously recorded "Steven Colbert Report" ... > Castling ? > here... anywhere else I wouldn't worry about writing > "previously recorded". Obviously, if it was recorded, it was > recorded previous to my watching it. In that sentence yes, but in general, it could have been being recorded while you were watching it. SignatureMark Brader | "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Toronto | Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to msb@vex.net | indicate successful termination of their C programs." | -- Robert Firth > Tony Cooper: >> I was just watching a previously recorded "Steven Colbert Report" ... > >> Castling > > ? Well, there's Kasparov and a swap of emphasis ... it sort of fits. Snipped context doesn't help, this clue, though. >> here... anywhere else I wouldn't worry about writing >> "previously recorded". Obviously, if it was recorded, it was >> recorded previous to my watching it. > > In that sentence yes, but in general, it could have been being > recorded while you were watching it. SignatureSkitt check! > > Tony Cooper: > >> I was just watching a previously recorded "Steven Colbert Report" ... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Well, there's Kasparov and a swap of emphasis ... it sort of fits. Snipped > context doesn't help, this clue, though. I think it was a protective maneuver. > >> here... anywhere else I wouldn't worry about writing > >> "previously recorded". Obviously, if it was recorded, it was > >> recorded previous to my watching it. ... > -- > Skitt > check! Good move, mate. -- Jerry Friedman > > > Tony Cooper: > > >> I was just watching a previously recorded "Steven Colbert Report" ... [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Good move, mate. Looks like I confront zugzwang. >> Tony Cooper: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >Well, there's Kasparov and a swap of emphasis ... it sort of fits. Snipped >context doesn't help, this clue, though. Yes, blatantly exploiting a chess move reference that requires a switch to a new position. And, resisting an impulse to type "casteling" since "castling" is pronounced (by me) as "cassel-ing". >>> here... anywhere else I wouldn't worry about writing >>> "previously recorded". Obviously, if it was recorded, it was >>> recorded previous to my watching it. >> >> In that sentence yes, but in general, it could have been being >> recorded while you were watching it. I'm still not comfortable. If I was simultaneously recording while watching, I would still be watching the "live" action. (Though what was "live" on TV may have been previously recorded...and we're back to square one.) Sometimes aue makes my head hurt. SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > In case Jerry F. is reading, no claim that this is an eggcorn. But > it's funny. Agreed. > I was just watching a previously recorded "Steven Colbert Report" > where Garry Kasparov was the guest. Garry was promoting his new book. > Steven asks Garry why he wrote the book, and Garry explains that he > was trying to explain his algorithm of decision making. > > The closed captioning read "my Al Gore rhythm". Al Gore rhythm, Al Gore music, Al Gore my gal, Who could ask for anything more? > Castling here...anywhere else I wouldn't worry about writing > "previously recorded". Obviously, if it was recorded, it was > recorded previous to my watching it. "Previously", though, does at > least wave at the fact that the recording was made some time back and > I'm just getting around to watching it. This is where those multiply-hyphenated-as-discussed-recently adjectives would come in handy. "I was just watching a some-time-back- recorded-by-me 'Stephen Colbert Report' where..." -- Jerry Friedman jerry_friedman@yahoo.com <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> het geskryf: >> Castling here...anywhere else I wouldn't worry about >> writing "previously recorded". Obviously, if it was [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > some-time-back- recorded-by-me 'Stephen Colbert Report' > where..." Next up: how to describe recordings made of re-runs of live shows shown during the Writers' Guild strike. SignatureNat ----- "She had a Mount Rushmore T-shirt on, and those guys never looked so good. Especially Jefferson and Lincoln. Kind of bloated, but happy." ---/A Prairie Home Companion/ >jerry_friedman@yahoo.com <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> het >geskryf: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >Next up: how to describe recordings made of re-runs of live >shows shown during the Writers' Guild strike. I'm sure that almost all of us have seen recorded live pictures of the striking Writer's Guilders, and later reruns of the recorded live pictures. Um ... will they want to be paid for the airing of the reruns of these pictures on websites? SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > > In case Jerry F. is reading, no claim that this is an eggcorn. But > > it's funny. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Al Gore rhythm, Al Gore music, Al Gore my gal, Who could ask for > anything more? When Bore ran for president, the answer to the question "What's a one-word oxymoron?" was "algorithm." Okay, it's really only an oxymoron if you break it up. Let's not get over-literal. Lawyers have their own one-word oxymoron: brief. >> > In case Jerry F. is reading, no claim that this is an eggcorn. But >> > it's funny. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >Lawyers have their own one-word oxymoron: brief. I remember being quite tickled at the title of a regular column in a monthly business magazine, entitled _Industrial Briefs_. It made me think of "heavy-duty underwear". |
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