into the dustbin, where it belongs

[Nordic]

MoveOn.org

[stefano]

"Draught" beer in a bottle.

[Nordic]

I get it.

[MacCruiskeen]

"chaos"

"stability"

"power vacuum"

"orderly transition"

[Joe Hillshoist]

Hosni Mubarak

[nathan28]

"meaningful steps"

[Laodicean]

"pro-Mubarak protesters"

[nathan28]

"continuity"

[Jeff]

contagion

[jingofever]

"civilian casualty event"

Usage: Petraeus never said that children’s hands and feet were purposely burned by their families in order to create a civilian casualty event.

[Nordic]

"suspected militants"

"NATO"

"Coalition Forces"

[psynapz]

"the list goes on and on"

pure, uncut conversational or intellectual laziness, might as well be "uuuh, you know?"

[JackRiddler]

.

How's that working out for ya?

I feel you.

Faith-based.

Evaluation.

.

[Stephen Morgan]

The Cancer

That treacherous bunch, the most evil of political organisations, the Liberal Democratic Party. Fuckers.

[brainpanhandler]

empathetic

Empathic vs. empathetic....Newer dictionaries (and certainly online) seem to show both words as acceptable, often using one to define the other-- thus advancing them as interchangeable. In the 1970s and 1980s (I have no idea about earlier), empathetic was considered incorrect-- a word form used by the uneducated. Empathic was the acceptable adjective for empathy, unlike the adjective for sympathy (sympathy-sympathetic, empathy-empathic). Having written a doctoral disseration on empathy in the 1980s, my doctoral committee drummed into my head that the word was empathic rather than empathetic. My 1980 dictionary donfirms that usage. This change in acceptable form could be the result of decades of "empathetic" usage in both speech and the written word, which resulted in a change in the English language over time. As for me, I cringe when I read or someone says the word "empathetic."

http://www.englishforums.com/English/Em ... r/post.htm