Matthew Toohey
tooheymatthew@aus.social
<p>Owner of a large and slightly weirdly-shaped head. | <br />"Can become unpleasant when stressed." - Reviewer 2 | <br />Purveyor of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenderBalancingClothingCommentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderBalancingClothingCommentary</span></a></p>
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Post #3074868
If you&#39;re a fan of food nostalgia, you will *love* this chronicle of Priya Krishna&#39;s attempt to recreate her family&#39;s spice blend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kSLVxoZDyg
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Post #3074867
Graham Richardson was only 76?!?! Hoo, all that factional powerplaying must&#39;ve really messed with his DNA. I could&#39;ve sworn he was in his mid-80s! #AusPol
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Post #3074866
Ah, the Canberra Liberals! They never cease to disappoint. Replacing Leanne Castley with Mark Parton doesn&#39;t really alter their position, other than to increase the number of former leaders in the partyroom. How many is that now? 🤣
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Post #3074865
@AnthoDerv I don&#39;t think it&#39;s a rule so much as a question of style. Some users of English are not fans of &#39;that that&#39;, for various reasons. (In my case, it&#39;s usually a concern about inelegance.) Can you recast the sentence to avoid &#39;that that&#39;? The second &#39;that&#39; seems likely to be a deictic pronoun (basically, you&#39;re pointing at something) so the simplest way of recasting the sentence would be to replace the second...
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Post #3074864
@AnthoDerv One option for avoiding &#39;that that&#39; is &#39;that this&#39;, but then you&#39;re likely to offend another group of people who aren&#39;t fans of &#39;this&#39;. Deirdre McCloskey has a whole chapter in one of her books about writing inveighing against &#39;this&#39;. I find it quite amusing. But I digress ... A more satisfying alternative to the McCloskeys of the world would be to use &#39;that the ____&#39;, where what goes in...
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Post #3074863
RE: https://mastodon.social/@IndyMediaAus/115532870112892314 So it #CouldGoEitherWay then ...