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> The barges are held under an LLC called By And Large, apparently a reference to Pixar’s “Buy n Large” of WALL·E, which is itself a reference to the phrase “by
by skaevola 13y ago
> The barges are held under an LLC called By And Large, apparently a reference to Pixar’s “Buy n Large” of WALL·E, which is itself a reference to the phrase “by and large.”
Really?
- joezydeco 13y agoaaaaand we've come full circle. Thanks for that.
- splawn 13y agoalso, take out the "y And L" and you are left with the word "Barge"
- nilliams 13y agoYou could also say By and Large is simply 'Cockney rhyming slang' [1] for Barge. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang
- waqf 13y agoUnless you have a citation for its being used in the East End, to comply with EU labelling requirements you should rather say that it is "Cockney-style rhyme-based language product".
- smackfu 13y agoThis is a good example of why you need copy-editors. Sometimes your edits end up making a sentence that doesn't make sense. Although I thought Ars did have copy-editors.
- selmnoo 13y agoSorry, I don't get it, what's wrong with that sentence?
- smackfu 13y agoA is a reference to B which is a reference to A. So A is just a reference to A, and B has nothing to do with it.
- selmnoo 13y agoHow do you know B has really nothing to do with it in this case? I was assuming that Ars did the research and had some evidence to believe that B was true and thus relevant.
- theoh 13y agoNo, it's not as simple as A referring to A. The two occurrences of "by and large" are distinct. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type–token_distinction#Occurrences http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type–token_distinction#Occurr...