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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted With Without Title

"Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted With Without Title" is the title of an installation. What does it mean in plain English? I have not seen anything like "with without" before.
  

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Hi Interesting The last bit is very unusual in ordinary English. I can only make up a sentence - and I would use a slash: - I spoke to Mick - or Sir Michael, as we must now call him - yesterday. He is, of course, the same with/without title In the installation, there are three boats which, I suppose, the artist thinks of as Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted.

— Dave_anon

  • Hi Interesting The last bit is very unusual in ordinary English.
  • I can only make up a sentence - and I would use a slash: - I spoke to Mick - or Sir Michael, as we must now call him - yesterday.
  • He is, of course, the same with/without title In the installation, there are three boats which, I suppose, the artist thinks of as Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted.
  • However, the participants are invited to use the boats as they wish.
  • They may take them with or without title Dave
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Hi

Interesting

The last bit is very unusual in ordinary English. I can only make up a sentence - and I would use a slash:

- I spoke to Mick - or Sir Michael, as we must now call him - yesterday. He is, of course, the same with/without title

In the installation, there are three boats which, I suppose, the artist thinks of as Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricte
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props to you for figuring that one out, I stared at it for a good five minutes and couldn't discern what the author was trying to say.
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schultzvia13props to you
What does that mean?
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I had to look it up, but I appreciated it. Proper respect

Dave
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schultzvia13props to you
Please use standard English in this forum. Thank you.
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Props is listed in the Online Oxford, albeit as informal. I don't use it myself, and have no immediate plans to, but I see it from time to time.
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Blue JayProps is listed in the Online Oxford, albeit as informal.
So are wanna, gotta, and plz, but we ask people not to use them in this forum. They are fine in texts and informal emails, but not in an English language forum.
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I would consider it slang rather than non-standard/text-speak.
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So, do we need a ist of slang expressions that are acceptable in this forum?

My personal advice to learners would be not to use 'props' in any but the most informal writing/speech and, even then, to accept that some of your readers/listeners will not know what it means.
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fivejedjonSo, do we need a ist of slang expressions that are acceptable in this forum?
No! Remember the debates over the Autocensor's wordlist?
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