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Mrs Butterface said:
WHAT NEW JOB?!



Tricia ‏@ Tricia_47_

@ timdormer morning Tim Any ideas of a Melbourne visit ?? Ps Have a great Saturday

tim dormer ‏@ timdormer 3h

@ Tricia_47_ hey Tricia!! Yeah I'd love to come down, so busy with new job at moment during the week, maybe one weekend soon!!
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looks like he might be working for that radio show
 
Sweet_Geek said:
Do they share emails too? I'm being sarcastic of course, but like seriously, how can one of them have a bf if they are stuck on each other like this and can't separate themselves for even a bit
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I liked them in the house, but I thought once they were on the outside they would be a bit more separate. Some people are just weird. I would never spend that much time with my sister.
 
Sweet_Geek said:
Nope! Not from what I have seen on here anyways.



They did in the house say that they go to dinner together with her bf... Do they go home together too and share the bed :p

Okay that was harsh, but c'mon it's becoming unrealistic to live their life this way
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I thought the same thought
 
torifrog said:
Totally off topic but I just had to jump in and say THANK YOU for using the correct word - oriented - instead of the new, weird one of orientated (which drives me crazy)!
(I also go a bit mad when I read "bias" as in "She is so bias" - no she isn't. She's biasED! Bias is a verb!)
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HAHA!!! When I first moved here I was having a mini rant to an Aussie friend about orientated as I couldn't understand why in a country that's famous for shortening everything possible, extra letters were added to oriented. Cheeky bugger sends me a link showing that orient and orientate were both in the OED back in the early 1800s to prove that it's not some recent phenomenon that someone made up. But what she failed to mention (and what I cling to now whenever this comes up now) is that orient was there FIRST. Only by 30 years or so but I'll still take it. Orient not orientate!
 
I Am Starstruck has interviews with Mikkayla and Tim from the MTV Summer Party they appear more than once in this video including near the end:

[video=youtube;VpXMJbiqEmM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXMJbiqEmM[/video]
 
Mrs Butterface said:
HAHA!!! When I first moved here I was having a mini rant to an Aussie friend about orientated as I couldn't understand why in a country that's famous for shortening everything possible, extra letters were added to oriented. Cheeky bugger sends me a link showing that orient and orientate were both in the OED back in the early 1800s to prove that it's not some recent phenomenon that someone made up. But what she failed to mention (and what I cling to now whenever this comes up now) is that orient was there FIRST. Only by 30 years or so but I'll still take it. Orient not orientate!
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haha. As a linguist I kind of laugh at this one. Orientate was formed via backformation form orientation and is very common in the UK and is an acceptable variant on orient. It's more commonly used as orientated in the UK (and Aus, I use orientated and orientate more often than orient) and orientate also carried extra intransitive meaning that orient does not (as well as the same transitive meanings of orient), 'to face in a specified direction', gleaned from its source. Language is always changing people, we have to get used to added and shifting lexical items, if we didn't we would still be speaking German.
 
Illabeth said:
haha. As a linguist I kind of laugh at this one. Orientate was formed via backformation form orientation and is very common in the UK and is an acceptable variant on orient. It's more commonly used as orientated in the UK (and Aus, I use orientated and orientate more often than orient) and orientate also carried extra intransitive meaning that orient does not (as well as the same transitive meanings of orient), 'to face in a specified direction', gleaned from its source. Language is always changing people, we have to get used to added and shifting lexical items, if we didn't we would still be speaking German.
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This is interesting. Could you please now give a justification for the recent change in usage of 'impact'? In my world it is still a noun, along with 'podium'. It drives me nuts when either are use as verbs. I know, I know: I'm getting old and language is constantly evolving but…

(And could you please come over and grade the papers I'm currently marking?)
 
prufrock said:
This is interesting. Could you please now give a justification for the recent change in usage of 'impact'? In my world it is still a noun, along with 'podium'. It drives me nuts when either are use as verbs. I know, I know: I'm getting old and language is constantly evolving but…

(And could you please come over and grade the papers I'm currently marking?)
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Impact is a person/place/or thing ???
 
Reaper said:
I Am Starstruck has interviews with Mikkayla and Tim from the MTV Summer Party they appear more than once in this video including near the end:

[video=youtube;VpXMJbiqEmM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXMJbiqEmM[/video]
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Thanks [MENTION=24613]Reaper[/MENTION] - some good snippets of news there. Shame about Tim and Boog, but I guess they can't stay friends with everyone.
 
Illabeth said:
haha. As a linguist I kind of laugh at this one. Orientate was formed via backformation form orientation and is very common in the UK and is an acceptable variant on orient. It's more commonly used as orientated in the UK (and Aus, I use orientated and orientate more often than orient) and orientate also carried extra intransitive meaning that orient does not (as well as the same transitive meanings of orient), 'to face in a specified direction', gleaned from its source. Language is always changing people, we have to get used to added and shifting lexical items, if we didn't we would still be speaking German.
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Wow, what an argument! Good luck to whoever wants to challenge this.

I use the word orientate because for me it sounds more logical, but I'm not opposed to using orient though. For me orientate makes more sense simply because I don't say oriention, I'd say orientation, so that's why I use orientate
 
prufrock said:
This is interesting. Could you please now give a justification for the recent change in usage of 'impact'? In my world it is still a noun, along with 'podium'. It drives me nuts when either are use as verbs. I know, I know: I'm getting old and language is constantly evolving but…

(And could you please come over and grade the papers I'm currently marking?)
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Impact as a verb is not such a recent phenomenon. It's been used as a verb since at least the very early 1600s, most commonly in its past participle form (impacted) meaning ' To press closely into or in something; to fix firmly in; to pack in.'. Most probably from the latin (impactus + ed suffix) and the verb proper (impact) backfomed from the use of impacted as a verb. There are examples from the 1700s of both impact and impacted acting as a verb, and it's gained meanings as time has gone by.

Podium as a verb is much more recent. Again it started in the past participle form (podiumed) but even then there are examples from the 1940s of the word being used this way. It's just a case of gaining meaning. One appears on a podium when they receive a medal, so people say they have 'podiumed', just the same as one says they 'placed' or 'medaled'. Still not im common usage though. It's simply a case of language change.

Don't worry about being prescriptive, most people are, even linguists and we should know better! Once can't help it. Don't worry, no matter what you do and how much you complain it will still just chug along changing.

Alas I can't do any marking, I'm currently writing my own thesis. Haha.
 
Reaper said:
I Am Starstruck has interviews with Mikkayla and Tim from the MTV Summer Party they appear more than once in this video including near the end:

[video=youtube;VpXMJbiqEmM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXMJbiqEmM[/video]
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Thanks Reaper, that was interesting!
 
Miss Scarlett said:
Thanks [MENTION=24613]Reaper[/MENTION] - some good snippets of news there. Shame about Tim and Boog, but I guess they can't stay friends with everyone.
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One meet up in and all will be well, imo. Seems like they still werent over that whole prank war thing when they 1st left the house.
 
Mrs Butterface said:
WHAT NEW JOB?!



Tricia ‏@ Tricia_47_

@ timdormer morning Tim Any ideas of a Melbourne visit ?? Ps Have a great Saturday

tim dormer ‏@ timdormer 3h

@ Tricia_47_ hey Tricia!! Yeah I'd love to come down, so busy with new job at moment during the week, maybe one weekend soon!!
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TullyLovesDrew said:
looks like he might be working for that radio show
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Looks like 2Day FM radio, so it's possibly that 'Bump Show' thingy. It may also have something to do with Kyle and Jackie O leaving though (just going out on a limb given the timing of their announcement yesterday and Tim's 'news' last night), but I guess whatever it is will be announced next week.
 
Jo-bot said:
it's nice to see caleb involved because it sometimes seems like he hasn't really been involved in much of the group fun. He's been all on his lonesome.
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I agree

Reaper said:
I Am Starstruck has interviews with Mikkayla and Tim from the MTV Summer Party they appear more than once in this video including near the end:

[video=youtube;VpXMJbiqEmM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXMJbiqEmM[/video]
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Sorry but Tim is very odd. Very odd what he said about Boog. Does anyone really know who Tim was or is? He is so fickle! 10 x worse than I am! LOL! Maybe that's why he annoys me so much, because we are both so alike :p
 
rj1 said:
One meet up in and all will be well, imo. Seems like they still werent over that whole prank war thing when they 1st left the house.
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Yeah, I think you're right. It's just disappointing to hear him say he 'hated Boog'. No doubt they'll be fine once they do meet up again. :)
 
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