drive-by grammar nazi!

[rone]

Take a verb that ends in -ce, such as "service" or "replace".  When you add the -able suffix to adjectivize that word, the result should keep the e.  Do not elide it, or the c will become hard.  "serviceable", "replaceable": good.  "servicable", "replacable": bad.

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

So, to summarize, to make your c hard, drop e.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That spam wasn't about Viagra, it was about prescriptivism!

[vatine]

Surely teeth are "replacable", if one is lax in using plaque-remover?

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it, you bastard.

[jvandenberg.livejournal.com]

So, you're now into prescription drugs?

Well, drug addict that you are, perhaps you should have some heroine!

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Do people actually do that?

What am I saying??

<Googles a bit>

Ye ghods. (http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,103986,00.html)

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll start using a C with a cedilla, since a silent E just doesn't look right in the middle of a word.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I agree that it looks funny and can lead to pronouncing the 'ea' as 'ee' or 'ay'. But that's English for ya.

Also, i salute your enterprise in considering the cedilla.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"I cannot cancel my face," said IBM researcher Nalini Ratha.

I cannot cancel my face.
I CANNOT CANCEL MY FACE.

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Faces have to be revoked; you wouldn't believe the paperwork.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Have some heroine? Hell, i married one!

[alfvaen]

Interesting. What's your view on "judgment"?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I've spelled it "judgement" for some time now out of stubbornness, but that horse left the barn way too long ago.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I become implacable, but with the right sort of attention I will eventually become replacable.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Ow, I hurt from laughing. I don't even want to read for context, it'd spoil the fun.