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4 responses to “Geek-a-Cycle Defattens the Bloggers”

1. 2006/10/11

   Geoff

   re: Geek-a-Cycle Defattens the Bloggers

   Aargh – one of my linguistic pet peeves. “that nice of a figure”… where the hell does the “of” come from? I hear it a lot here in the US, and it really grates.

   I’ve always imagined that this usage, along with things like “in back of”, arose from a word-for-word translation of a non-English phrase into English by immigrants into the US. However it’s (depressingly) likely that some enthusiastic owner of an OED will leap up to demonstrate that it’s an old English usage that was carried to America before falling out of favour in the UK…..

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2. 2006/10/12

   Mike Smith

   re: Geek-a-Cycle Defattens the Bloggers

   If you’d been reading my blog you would have seen the Geek-a-Cycle on September 30th!

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3. 2006/10/12

   alecm

   re: Geek-a-Cycle Defattens the Bloggers

   Hi Mike – I read your blog via RSS, so I may have missed it. RSS readers are condensed, but I suspect they reduce the tendency to linger over pages…

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4. 2007/01/25

   Train

   re: Geek-a-Cycle Defattens the Bloggers

   It’s interesting, I saw a similar device that was a treadmil hooked to your workstation. I think I would prefer that. Now, as for strapping your laptop to your motorcycle… I’m not too sure about that! 🙂

   http://www.thebeachcruiser.com/blog

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