This is wrong, right? But why?

[onebatmother]

It's a system-generated email from Photobox:

"Hi,

Have a look at my album I have shared with you on PhotoBox."

Leaving aside the thorny issue of whether one can have "shared" something with someone unilaterally, and whether you can share something "on" something intangible rather than, say, a lawn or a table, shouldn't it read:

"Have a look at the album I have shared with you on Photobox."

then in that case it is "I have shared with you" if sharing occurs the moment the sharer has taken action

so your new version is wrong

sorry

start again

But I don't like coconut cake or wacky photos! I am not a willing participant in this verb!

what do we think about 'foist'?

"Have a look at my album I have foisted on you on PhotoBox"

Threadworm's real back cover photo

v good Cappie! Yup, that is definitely it - so much more elegant than 'inflicted'.

Those hi-lites are great, Threadie.

I think fisted might be better than foisted.

and double Swedes

Threadworm has led a rather sheltered life, you know. You should expect some awkward questions.

Threadworm - Beschreiben Sie das Innere des Besenschrank, bitte. (Please describe the inside of the broom cupboard.)

ooh ooh can i be pedantic in german????

isn't it

das innere des Besenschrankes

??? i was obsessed with genitives when i was learning german, tho' i know this usage is on the way out in spoken german

sorry forgot to capitalise 'Innere' - blame the bf again

Asics - I think you should change your name to Uberpedantik.

pedantisch

Swedes, this is the cupboard I tend to use:

"One evening, a few days later, K. was walking along one of the corridors that separated his office from the main stairway ? he was nearly the last one to leave for home that evening, there remained only a couple of workers in the light of a single bulb in the dispatch department ? when he heard a sigh from behind a door which he had himself never opened but which he had always thought just led into a junk room. He stood in amazement and listened again to establish whether he might not be mistaken. For a while there was silence, but then came some more sighs. His first thought was to fetch one of the servitors, it might well have been worth having a witness present, but then he was taken by an uncontrollable curiosity that make him simply yank the door open. It was, as he had thought, a junk room. Old, unusable forms, empty stone ink-bottles lay scattered behind the entrance. But in the cupboard-like room itself stood three men, crouching under the low ceiling. A candle fixed on a shelf gave them light. ?What are you doing here?? asked K. quietly, but crossly and without thinking. One of the men was clearly in charge, and attracted attention by being dressed in a kind of dark leather costume which left his neck and chest and his arms exposed. He did not answer. But the other two called out, ?Mr. K.! We?re to be beaten because you made a complaint about us to the examining judge.? "

Next time I'm there I shall ask the man in the adrk leather costume what 'fisting' is.

Ha!

Where did you get that pic of me Bat. Blonde really doesn't suit me.

it does look rather as though you used a local salon, threadie.

I use the kind of salon where they say 'Sharon, your lady's here. Just a wet trim was it?'

I soooo do not want to hear about your wet trim, Threadie!

Are we back to the Kantian topiary now? Oh how I giggled when I accidentally brought that back to mind with my earlier reference on this thread to 'snatches of philosophy' (excuse that particulaly vile colloquialism).

Oh yes, I've been thinking about Frau Koch all day

Threadworm - I think you must ask the whip-man in the leather costume (Wilelm isn't it?) to describe fisting. If you casually ask him what fisting is, you may get a bit of a surprise.

'Sharon, your lady's here' is so much nicer than 'Chardonnay, your 2.30 is here' I always wonder if 2.30 is haidresser code for that woman with dandruff.