PourQue
Barrel Racker
Posts:1789
 | | 07/08/2005 3:50 AM |
| | Why is it that people do not use an "a" in wine speak when referring to the size of the bottle from which they poured?....ie "Tonight I served a '47 LaFleur from magnum" or "Parker changed the score when tasting from bottle"...Shouldn't this be "from A magnum"? or "from A bottle"? This has always aggravated me for some reason and I've yet to figure out the logic behind it....or possibly it is a quirk in the English language that I do not know about and will feel very ignorant when told. | | | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts:1533
| | 07/08/2005 12:16 PM |
| | Poor education | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts:12003
| | 07/08/2005 1:34 PM |
| Feel better? 
I don't know about you but I have a tendency to chop things a little short when posting online. Maybe that has something to do with it. | |
Joe
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PourQue
Barrel Racker
Posts:1789
| | 07/08/2005 2:08 PM |
| This occurs too frequently and in this exact circumstance to be explained by chopping to expediate typing. Methinks it is a pretentiousness thing, but maybe it isn't.
Off my soapbox now.... | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:12891
| | 07/08/2005 3:05 PM |
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Why is it that people do not use an "a" in wine speak when referring to the size of the bottle from which they poured?....ie "Tonight I served a '47 LaFleur from magnum" or "Parker changed the score when tasting from bottle"...Shouldn't this be "from A magnum"? or "from A bottle"? This has always aggravated me for some reason and I've yet to figure out the logic behind it....or possibly it is a quirk in the English language that I do not know about and will feel very ignorant when told.
you're treading very closely to sounding like tj, watch yourself  | | | |
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PourQue
Barrel Racker
Posts:1789
| | 07/08/2005 3:19 PM |
| LOL.......of all people on the board, TJ is the one that I never thought I would be thought of as sounding like  Apples, Oranges, and stuff | | | |
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Sacred Cow
Wine Thief
Posts:2764
| | 07/08/2005 3:36 PM |
| I do it for shortcuts on a regular basis. If you review my posts, most of them are a jumble of shortcuts, fragments, etc. I merely do it in the interest of saving time, and all of my English teachers would be thoroughly appalled.
Then again, maybe I was just uneducated or miseducated by them. Who knows. No pretentiousness here though.
But a lot of sentence fragments.
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15711
| | 07/08/2005 9:01 PM |
| So whose counting?
Have you ever watched "closed captioning" on a live TV show? There is nothing wrong with "short hand" as long as it is clear what you are saying.  | | | |
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts:1475
| | 07/08/2005 10:17 PM |
| Most of my correspondence is electronic, and as a result, written rather informally. When I write actual letters now, I need to make a concerted effort to sound appropriately formal.
And oh, I always use an indefinite article when referring to a wine bottle, unless its a Nebuchadnezzar, which I just refer to as "Big-A$$ bottle" | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13660
| | 07/09/2005 9:46 PM |
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LOL.......of all people on the board, TJ is the one that I never thought I would be thought of as sounding like Apples, Oranges, and stuff
Hee-haw! Hey dude, we can drink wine and hang out anytime. Just as long as we keep our convo away from topics like politics and religion and all that, we'll have a great time. 
By the way, the missing 'a' bit of which you speak...I agree with ya, most annoying, eh? | |
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PourQue
Barrel Racker
Posts:1789
| | 07/10/2005 3:57 AM |
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Hee-haw! Hey dude, we can drink wine and hang out anytime. Just as long as we keep our convo away from topics like politics and religion and all that, we'll have a great time.
By the way, the missing 'a' bit of which you speak...I agree with ya, most annoying, eh?
Most definitely  | | | |
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