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Pimms Started conversation Apr 29, 2003
Please peruse:
past-time > pastime
passed > past
Pimms 
(pleasure passing points)
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Apr 29, 2003
point please?
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Pimms Posted Apr 29, 2003
Posting perfecting practically perfect prose politely
Pimms 
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Wand'rin star Posted Apr 29, 2003
Could you also look at what's happened to the first sentence:
betwhttp://homepage.mac.com/rscaife/Menu3.htmleen
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Apr 29, 2003
How very odd ... that wasn't there when I looked first time ... will have to call the PTB ...
As for the language issues ... still don't see your point I'm afraid Pimms ... possibly being dumb ... in fact it's more than likely!
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Pimms Posted Apr 29, 2003
I give up! The first tpyo has been corrected (probably at the same time as that weird link was thrown in - it wasn't there when I first looked either) which was in the first paragraph of the discombobulating section.
The second is in the footnote 'past the watershed' is better isn't it?
Pimms
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Apr 29, 2003
In a word, no!
In two words, no no!
Passed is the verb as opposed to its altogether more adjectival homophonic alter-ego, past ...
trust me ... I'm a 
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Pimms Posted Apr 29, 2003
It was just a suggestion, actually I prefer 'after the watershed'
, not that the phrase makes much sense anyway on a website.
I 
to your superior knowledge of grammar.
Pimms
(incidentally, as a fan, have you perused the PR entry on Calvin and Hobbes?)
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Vandervecken Posted Apr 29, 2003
It really depends whether the intention was "it is past the watershed" or "it has passed the watershed". I feel more natural writing the former, personally.
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Clelba Posted Apr 29, 2003
i have more pedantry!
surely a design museum *is* a public building? 
^. .^
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Apr 30, 2003
It could be a private design museum ...
as for the past/passed issue ... the latter was my intent ...
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Apr 30, 2003
We've fixed those now - and to err on the side of caution, we went for 'after'.
Cowards? Us?
Um, yes 
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Apr 30, 2003
but "passed" was right ...
Oh well ...
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Clelba Posted Apr 30, 2003
i thought it should have been past
but what do i know?
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Guru
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Vandervecken Posted May 21, 2003
Of course it should have been 'past'.
"It's passed the watershed" begs the question "What has?", whereas "It's past the watershed" is clearly using 'it' in exactly the same sense as that employed when refering to the time of day (e.g. "It's past nine o'clock"). What, if anything, the word 'it' actually refers to in this context is of course an open question, but I would guess that it must be the 'constantly-updating current instant of time'.
Does that help? Probably not. Pass that bottle, we're too sober by half...
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