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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 01:32 AM
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Poll question: Is it "hear hear" or "here here"?
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 01:33 AM
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1. "Hear, hear!"
It is a command, exhorting people around to hear what the speaker has said.

Tucker
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 01:36 AM
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2. It's "hear hear"
Based on the practice of someone standing up and loudly proclaiming something, and another person exclaiming "hear hear!" to make sure it is heard, and reinforced. Used kind of like a secular "amen". :-)

There is a distinct relationship between the "hear hear!", words related to our sense of sound, and that it is calling attention to something that was spoken.
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 01:37 AM
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3. In German
"Hört, hört"
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 01:42 AM
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4. Intersting.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 01:54 AM
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6. Hi there, Neoma...
I truly HATE to sound at all negative, but every time I see your stair picture, I cringe...If only it weren't moving...I hope I'm not offending you, though!


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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 02:02 AM
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7. I'll change it then.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 12:15 PM
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13. Oh, thank you so much!
This is much easier to look at! I truly appreciate your doing this for me!
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Sean Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 05:03 PM
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35. You're offended by PONG?!?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 06:41 PM
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37. No, not at all! Perhaps you didn't see the earlier pic...
It showed a profile of a staircase, with a cartoon figure falling, no, tumbling down. I found it oddly painful to look at, and impossible to avoid...I finally decided to speak to Neoma about it. And she changed it to the ping pong image, which is wonderful!
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 12:44 PM
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16. Sounds like Bill the Cat expelling a hairball! nt
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TheProphetess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 01:54 AM
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5. I once (or twice) posted "here, here"
until my SO set me straight - it's "hear, hear" afterall. At least I'm not a slow learner...:)
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:12 AM
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8. I'm toLd that it was originaLLy 'hear him'
And was shouted in ParLiament to exort other members to Listen to what a particuLar speaker was saying. Of course that may be apocryphaL.

What ever, it's now 'hear hear'.
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necso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 05:36 AM
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9. Both.
"Hear hear" means something akin to "listen up" -- or perhaps "note these words".

"Here Here" means something akin to "wait a minute" -- or perhaps "no". (From "look here", perhaps.)

"Here, here, don't do that."

Or so I have taken it from context.
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 05:39 AM
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10. Is it "hear ye, hear ye" or is it "here ye, here ye"...............?
Edited on Wed May-18-05 05:40 AM by Dover
OR is it "hey you, hey you"?:P
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Serial Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 07:10 AM
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11. Anybody who has kids knows it's both!
When you want them to come somewhere (such as the dinner table), you say come here, come here and when they don't listen you eventually say HERE, HERE

And if you are talking to one and they sit or stand there sort of like dubya in the school on 9/11, you say do you hear me?, do you hear? and that eventually ends up, HEAR, HEAR
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 07:32 AM
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12. it depends
if you are expressing your approval for a speech, it's "hear, hear." If you are answering roll call, it is "here, here."
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SouthoftheBorderPaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 12:42 PM
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14. Thanks for posting this....
I had been meaning to ask this question.
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 02:47 PM
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17. np
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 12:43 PM
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15. Thear, thear...
:nuke:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 02:48 PM
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18. And it's TOE THE LINE dammit!
:D
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yorgatron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:12 PM
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19. no,it's TOW the line,
if the line is connected to something you need to drag somewhere.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:15 PM
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20. But TOE the line if you want tomebody to conform
to a rule.

Redstone
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:19 PM
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22. yes, obviously, but that's not the gist of the phrase
which people all too often think is tow the line.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:23 PM
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23. Except in that case, you're not towing the LINE, you're towing
whatever the line is attached to.

It doesn't make sense.

Redstone
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:33 PM
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26. Good point! n.t
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 05:41 PM
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48. No, it means one puts their toe to the line; they stand up to the line.
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:40 PM
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30. Yeah dammit! And it's "cut the muster" while we're on the subject!
:P
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:46 PM
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31. Yep, taken from the literal
placing of the toes on the LINE on the floor, dammit!
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:20 AM
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41. Thank you!
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:16 PM
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21. damnit
i know i posted that wrong yesterday. i just wasn't paying attention to what i was doing. sheesh.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:25 PM
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24. Mutley, I think it's just a coincidence. I didn't start this thread--just
case you got the impression I'm some kind of rabid Grammar Nazi.

Actually, I am. But only with my kids, not other adults.

Redstone
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 03:28 PM
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25. lol
i know you didn't start the thread. i happen to be a grammar nazi myself but not when it comes to message boards, especially since i don't pay much attention to my grammar when i'm posting here. i just thought it was too much of a coincidence that i made that mistake yesterday and someone posts a thread about it today. i'm one of the oversensitive ones.
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:35 PM
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27. Be glad you're a DUer...
Otherwise this offense would automatically require ritual disembowelment. :evilgrin:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 10:45 AM
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39. I'm going to start using it incorrectly on purpose!
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:36 PM
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28. The definitive answer can be found right here:
Edited on Wed May-18-05 04:36 PM by JimmyJazz


Okay - so not exactly - but it's cute!
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 06:12 PM
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36. LOL!
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:39 PM
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29. it's hear hear here
hear?
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:46 PM
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32. Hear here ? ?
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 04:54 PM
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33. I never use this phrase, because I cannot ever remember
which is correct!
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 05:01 PM
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34. And of course
we all know that the depletion of the ozone layer which produces strange effects, affects all of us.

They're ready to leave on their trip to go there to enjoy themselves.

To which of the two do you find it too much to speak?

Did you break the brakes on the car?

That really luscious male delivered my mail.



Just some of my favorite homophones.
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 07:13 PM
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38. grizzly/grisly
I saw it today, right here on DU.

It was about death--so the poster could have meant 'death by grizzly(bear)', I suppose.

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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 10:53 AM
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40. I think it's "Hear Here"
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:21 AM
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42. Can I add? It's "you've got another THINK coming".... NOT
"You've got another THING coming."

I don't care how many times it's used incorrectly, or who is using it incorrectly.

It is THINK, not THING.

Look at the whole phrase: "If you think <insert thought here>, you've got another think coming."

"Thing" doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Thank you.
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DelawareValleyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:25 AM
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43. Hair Hair nt
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 05:11 PM
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44. lol
Never heard that version.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 05:11 PM
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45. Har Har.
:D
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 05:23 PM
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46. Thats laughing.
:P
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 05:33 PM
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47. Yes, it is.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 05:42 PM
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49. It's "Hear, hear"
As in "hear this speaker", or "we hear" or "I hear".
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