Why people this kind of things must complain also?
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This kind of things must also complain. Go get a day job man.
Yes, the DJ is correct, you get a pair of tickets, one side the organiser tear and keep the other side you keep for your seating reference. Just like movie tickets come in a pairs. ahahah.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,364289,00.html?
Each time I hear a local radio host say that listeners can win a pair of tickets to a concert, I cringe. It just doesn't sound right or proper.
'A pair of tickets'? Since when have two tickets to a show become a pair? As commonly understood, a pair of anything consists of two identical objects formed as a collective whole and matched for use together.
Obvious examples are a pair of scissors, a pair of gloves, a pair of bookends, etc; they never come singly. Or, if you are describing two individuals who are similar or are in some way associated with each other: a pair of liars, a pair of seal pups.
I therefore don't see why two tickets should be turned into an inseparable pair, suggesting that one on its own would be useless, which is silly.
After all, one doesn't say to the lady at the ticket booth 'Two pairs of tickets, please' when it's four that one wants.
Let's not ascribe to tickets the quality they don't possess. Instead, just state how many. It's simpler, saves words and avoids a mouthful.
Lee Seck Kay -
honestly, its no fun to go to the movies or to a concert alone. thats why they're often in pairs!
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ya, that's why tickets come in pairs. but this person gotta complain about syntactical errors.Originally posted by HENG@:honestly, its no fun to go to the movies or to a concert alone. thats why they're often in pairs!
I think if he/she listens to american stations, s/he got more to complain...
things like
"irregardless"
"anyways" (and americans insists anyways is correct)
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This guy is probably a student studying Law.
In a courtroom, meaning of a word and or phrase, can yield certain legal outcomes.
Hence, he does somehow have a valid point of argument with regards the application of the word "pair".
However, he failed to note that words like "pair" can be used as deemed fit and based on presentation purposes, as in the case of the radio DJ's announcement of "a pair of tickets" which is just as applicable and similar in meaning as - "two tickets".
Nonetheless, a complain like this, is indeed a waste of time. He should find better things to do than this. -
seems like he is more bored than i am.
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So what's the difference between him and the person who complains about his frivolous complaining?
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no diff as both are trying to kill time.
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No difference from the person who pointed out the irony of the person complaining about the person complaining about the DJ's english.Originally posted by charlize:So what's the difference between him and the person who complains about his frivolous complaining?
haha.
no lah.. at least this is a forum for people for bo liao topics and kill time.
Newspaper space should be for more "national matters" -
Just a grammatical correction Lee Seck Kay's pointing out.
His other forum letters are more insightful. (Yes...he's a ST forum regular) -
It's election time.
These so called frivolous topics will be the highlight of the forums page for the next few months.
Apparently nobody will write in much about the poor, job loss or NKF now. -
Originally posted by Ponders:
You'll be surprised how some people can go all the way just to PROVE that they're STUPID.
This kind of things must also complain. Go get a day job man.
Yes, the DJ is correct, you get a pair of tickets, one side the organiser tear and keep the other side you keep for your seating reference. Just like movie tickets come in a pairs. ahahah.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,364289,00.html?
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Each time I hear a local radio host say that listeners can win a pair of tickets to a concert, I cringe. It just doesn't sound right or proper.
'A pair of tickets'? Since when have two tickets to a show become a pair? As commonly understood, a pair of anything consists of two identical objects formed as a collective whole and matched for use together.
Obvious examples are a pair of scissors, a pair of gloves, a pair of bookends, etc; they never come singly. Or, if you are describing two individuals who are similar or are in some way associated with each other: a pair of liars, a pair of seal pups.
I therefore don't see why two tickets should be turned into an inseparable pair, suggesting that one on its own would be useless, which is silly.
After all, one doesn't say to the lady at the ticket booth 'Two pairs of tickets, please' when it's four that one wants.
Let's not ascribe to tickets the quality they don't possess. Instead, just state how many. It's simpler, saves words and avoids a mouthful.
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well i think its more amazing tat straits times publish tis... they got nothing else better to publish?
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I got a headache reading it..
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Wah .... Sounds Familiar
Maybe It's Gold 90.5 FM
they give out tickets to the Queen Tribute ' It's A Kind Of Magic' concert
and also to Kenny G's one night only concert here in SG ... -
Give those people a chance to prove that they are stupid.Originally posted by RaTtY81:well i think its more amazing tat straits times publish tis... they got nothing else better to publish? -
Indeed..Originally posted by BillyBong:Just a grammatical correction Lee Seck Kay's pointing out.
His other forum letters are more insightful. (Yes...he's a ST forum regular) -
so hard being a DJ nowadays.
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Just to solve your curiosity.... They're BOTH TICKETS and referring for the SAME MOVIE....Originally posted by Ponders:Obvious examples are a pair of scissors, a pair of gloves, a pair of bookends, etc; they never come singly. Or, if you are describing two individuals who are similar or are in some way associated with each other: a pair of liars, a pair of seal pups.
Lee Seck Kay -
Actually ah, i think if you all read properly right, at the end of his kaopeh-ing, got a +1 there..
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Shows how much free time he has to go notice such little insignificant things...then again i must say he is really very sharp to pick this up and his english is pretty good.
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Forgot to add in he is somewhat a perfectionist
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another one give me
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He's contradicting himself here.
Obvious examples are a pair of scissors, a pair of gloves, a pair of bookends, etc; they never come singly. Or, if you are describing two individuals who are similar or are in some way associated with each other: a pair of liars, a pair of seal pups.
I therefore don't see why two tickets should be turned into an inseparable pair, suggesting that one on its own would be useless, which is silly.
The two tickets he is referring to are indeed 'similar or are in some way associated with each other', aren't they? They look similar, they feel similar, they're from a similar source and they're for a similar purpose. Two liars are similar, and two seal pups are similar, why can't two tickets be similar?
Moving on to the next paragraph, don't tell me that if you separate 'a pair of liars' or 'a pair of seal pups', they each become useless. I honestly didn't know that liars and sea lions can only exist in pairs and not on their own. So following the writer's reasoning, a person can never lie on his own, for it would be useless and silly.
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Because he is more free than me, dragg, and PCT combined.
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You all miss the point....What he's trying to do, it to spread greater awareness of proper use of English in daily setting. He is actually trying to convey a message.