That is not what “unstop” means. You unstop a drain that is clogged, you don’t unstop something you want to restart.
Better than my English second language teacher claiming that a “ship in distress” is doing fine because “distressed” is the opposite of “stressed” (and calling me into her office because I had corrected her in front of the class).
Ouch. Yeah, that’s bad.
when I was studying electronics in vocational school, our teacher insisted that humans cannot hear as low as 50hz. because then we would just be hearing constant buzzing from all the electrical outlets…
Years ago I learned (the hard way) that people do not like to be corrected in front of other people; leadership especially. It’s better to speak with them privately, if at all.
I was kind of past giving a shit. The teacher and I hated each other’s guts, but she couldn’t do a damn thing to me because I was top of my class (ESL at least) and represented my school multiple times in national competitions, and any attempt on her part to sabotage me would have been obvious. The worst thing she could do was mark one of my answers incorrect because I had used an American synonym instead of the British word (I think it was “trunk” instead of “boot”), and when I reminded her that she had marked it correct for two other students, she went back and crossed them out. My classmates knew and didn’t resent me for it.
I took an option to graduate early from that class mostly out of spite, but partly because I knew I couldn’t keep biting my tongue.
That’s an invaluable lesson.
Tbh it bothers me that invaluable doesn’t mean “with no/little value”.
“Inflammable” is synonymous with “flammable”.
It does, it means no value, as in priceless.
They quoted the term and defined their meaning in context. They could have used any arbitrary codeword.
Just because “unstop” is most commonly used with regard to plumbing does not mean that the term is exclusive to plumbing.
“Resume” would have been a better choice!
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I like this one.
Stopn’t
Stop’ve
You unstop a drain to make it go again. You unstop texts to make them go again. Seems fine to me.
It’s totally appropriate. They’re conflating their spam with a stream of shit that’s backed up, which is entirely accurate.
Counterpoint, messages like these clog my inbox.
It’s not the message, it’s the word “unstop.”
I know, just toying with the metaphor of a clogged drain.
I used to be a bit of a scold about grammar and spelling myself. A lack of style bothers me more nowadays. Everyone should feel welcome to play with our language. It doesn’t take a logodaedalus to construct an unglued apothegm, and we are all the richer for it; I am more disappointed by those who don’t try.
The problem is that language is meant to facilitate communication, not a toy to be played around with. This sort of thing does nothing to help people who speak English as a second language. It just confuses them more.
In this case, the message came from the medical group my former doctor is a part of. Sure, this particular case is pretty harmless (just mildly infuriating), but just fucking around with language for fun in such settings sounds like a terrible idea to me.
You would have a point if they had said "to unstop texts from this number, reply with “start”.
But they didn’t.
They quoted the word and explicitly defined the meaning they assigned to it. There is no ambiguity.
