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6 April 2011, 02:45 AM | #1 |
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"Deployant" vs "Deployment": Should I correct them?
A very good friend on mine always calls a deployant clasp a "deployment"? In email conversations I tend to correct the mistake indirectly in my responses in hopes that he figures it out and I used to in conversation but nowadays I just give in and just call it "deployment" so he doesn't feel bad. Are they interchangeable or is one more correct than the other?
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6 April 2011, 02:51 AM | #2 |
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I can't answer that with any authority, but I had a mate who always called the Pacific the Specific Ocean! It cracked me up but I never had the heart to say anything!
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If English is your first language.....please try & use the correct term...
we shouldn't be embarrassed to be intelligent & use the correct term in your language.....the dumbing down of society........it pisses me off to no end. Bah humbug. tell your friend this: deployment: the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work. deployant: hinged metal clasp on a watch strap or bracelet which is opened so you can put the watch on your wrist.
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I like your email strategy. Use the correct term yourself and give up on correcting your friend. He hasn't gotten it and has no interest in getting it, so let it be. We all have friends who use words we don't, whether flat out wrong or just inappropriate.
Etymologically, they're actually only a hair's breadth apart. They both are derived from the same root verb with the same root meaning. |
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Yes, correct him.
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Correct him...as you would if he said "irregardless"
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Then I hope everyone is prepared to stop saying "the dealer looked at my wife and I like we were nuts" and "If you asked my brother and I, we'd definitely go to Cabo" and "you should have called Tim and I" and all the other examples of "I" instead of "me" that are in everyday speech but totally wrong. It's a slippery slope toward being tiresome. |
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You could just consider using the correct term and see if he doesn't just follow your lead.
It seems a little too trivial a matter to make a point of correcting him.
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What? It's not a deployment buckle? Oh poo. Irregardless, I think the word works for all intensive purposes.
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I honestly did not know the correct term either.
Thank you for informing us, it is always good to learn something new. Now, since we are on the subject of language... How about a qualified lesson in the proper use of your vs. you're, and there vs. their? Thanks to all teachers out there. |
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yep. .a "gentle" correction is in order.
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I also always thought it was "deployment". Thanks.
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Drop your friend.
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I like that you folks gave some pacific examples. Personally I had no idea what deployant even meant.
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i say you can correct him once ... or twice at most ... if he doesn't adjust dont even bother anymore
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Your you're.
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On a related theme: I really cringe every time watch fans say a particular watch, or a feature of a watch, makes it eaither "very unique", or "more unique".
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