Sylvania Bluray Player $279 @ Sears.

[bobsticks]

You still don't GET IT.
So they are "unwilling" to have a bunch of cheap players "decimate"
the market?...

Your usage of the word "decimate" with quotations makes me think you were attempting a bit of clever repartee. You do realize that it's one word with multiple meanings, right?

[Feanor]

Your usage of the word "decimate" with quotations makes me think you were attempting a bit of clever repartee. You do realize that it's one word with multiple meanings, right?

You are becoming very obscure of late. Humour us simple folk with simple, syntactically conventional, and preferably monosyllabic sentences.

Pix' use of quote marks around "decimate" was merely quotation from Sir T, not (necessarily) an attempt at repartee.

[Rich-n-Texas]

You are becoming very obscure of late.Humour us simple folk with simple, syntactically conventional, and preferably monosyllabic sentences.

And that brings us to this...

Insignia?? Oh, well you've got a choice of Sharp or Samsung at $299.99

Doubtless BB-USA will equal this.

I suspect what you're trying to say here is something along the lines of this...

Doubtlessly, BB-USA will equal this, which I agree with 100%

Pix' use of quote marks around "decimate" was merely quotation from Sir T, not (necessarily) an attempt at repartee.

Thank you for that Linguistics lesson Professor Syllable. Just the same, I like it when sticks says repartee, it sounds better than when a Canadian says it.

[pixelthis]

And that brings us to this...

I suspect what you're trying to say here is something along the lines of this...


Thank you for that Linguistics lesson Professor Syllable. Just the same, I like it when sticks says repartee, it sounds better than when a Canadian says it.

You just like it when he says it because you think its something dirty.

[bobsticks]

You just like it when he says it because you think its something dirty.

Well, he'd have a fair amount of precedence from which to draw.

[bobsticks]

Thank you for that Linguistics lesson Professor Syllable. Just the same, I like it when sticks says repartee, it sounds better than when a Canadian says it.

I appreciate the shout-out but when Feanor said, "You are becoming very obscure of late. Humour us simple folk with simple, syntactically conventional, and preferably monosyllabic sentences." there was a certain irony don'tcha think? I'm fairly certain it was intentional.

And, um,...not to get too William Safire on y'alls but I'm pretty sure that "Doubtless BB-USA will equal this." is correct, albeit awkward. It's an implied subject, as in "[It is] Doubtless [that] BB-USA will equal this.". Your way ascribes qualities to all the workers of Best Buy USA, specifically "doubtlessness", which for those of that have experienced the confusion and chaos of a busy evening BB is fairly unconvincing.

In any case, the whole interchange arose from my comments on the word "decimate" which I had suspected was used incorrectly in STtT's first post. I thought maybe T had enjoyed a shot too many of Patron and meant "disseminate" or some such term. I looked it up. I was wrong...so maybe I'd enjoyed one too many. In the end I learned something, so thanks Terrence.