As long as they know the difference between "casual" and "causal," they're okay, methinks. <div>On 12/2/05, Jordan Hayes <<a href="mailto:jmhayes@j-o-r-d-a-n.com">jmhayes@speakeasy.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> My co-workers (all of them Irish), for example, are currently > afraid to use either "imply" or "infer" because - for reasons > that thoroughly baffle me - they can't work out the difference > between the two, and know I will scream if they get it wrong > *again*. mine all seem to have the same problem with "brief" and "debrief" . . . ___________________________________ <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </blockquote></div> -- ________________________________________ `And these words shall then become Like oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again -- again -- again-- `Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number-- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many -- they are few.' --------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy: Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819]