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Originally Posted by bimmette
Nooo he's mounting them for a terrible time. 
Random thought: It's a pet peeve of mine when people describe themselves saying they like to have fun. Who doesn't? Who says, I like to have a terrible time! |
oooh... pet peeves! One of my many linguistic pet peeves is using the term "rate of speed" - as in "he was traveling at a high rate of speed." This seems to have become acceptable usage. Speed is rate, as it measures change in position v. time. Speed is a rate people... stop being sesquipedalian!
Rate is defined thusly... "a measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against some other quantity or measure.
"the crime rate rose by 26 percent""