Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

Little Bill — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:19:31 GMT

Alas the world is changing. Acceptance is in order.

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

Pedigree Ann — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:32:37 GMT

The secondary use of tandem is a recent innovation and not one I approve of. (Yes, that is a preposition ending my sentence.) When you have a perfectly good way to describe 'acting in conjunction' like 'together' or 'as a team', the only reason to misuse another term like 'tandem' is to sound more sophisticated or educated than you really are. Losing precise terms into the mish-mash of similar terms is not a good thing for the language. That is why French is still the international language of treaties - precision of expression.

I blame economics reporters and economists. They started writing that 'wages and prices increase in tandem', by which they meant that one follows the other, but the lay readership interpreted it as 'together.' It's been downhill from there.

It's like the degradation of 'unique', which means 'one of a kind': so many people have used it to mean 'unusual' that they don't know how bad 'most unique' and 'very unique' sound. Unfortunately, we mathematicians still use unique in its original sense, like a 'unique solution' to a problem. An example of problem with a non-unique solution would be "What is the square root of 4?" 2 is one answer, but -2 is also a valid answer, since a negative number times a negative number equals a positive number. Note that the cube root of 8 HAS a unique solution, since 3 negatives is still negative. (Math lesson over.)

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

Ghostzapper1 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 03:15:51 GMT

Pedigree Ann-

Perhaps you should consult an actual dictionary before attempting to sound intelligent. His usage is 100% correct.

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

JasonR — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 17:11:33 GMT

Bris PPs blow the rest out of the water! They've resurrected my capping in this groomless industry.

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

jean thomas — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 11:59:41 GMT

Schivarelli is pick in the wood memorial, social inclusion they shouldn't took that money!

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

Plod Boy Phil — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:31:46 GMT

Pedigree Ann -

Really ? Again with the off base rant on 'tandem' ?

If I may, from Miriam Webster, for second time on these Unlocking Winners Blogs:

* a group of two or more arranged one behind the other or used or acting in conjunction

When there's a dictionary titled 'Pedigree Ann's'.....

Regards

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

santanajimi — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:40:58 GMT

THanks Doug for the write up.....Always interesting reads for me...I am waiting for Anns pedigree article....i wont hold my breath...

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

Pedigree Ann — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:18:07 GMT

"Tandem" means one following the other, like with a tandem bicycle. Not just 'with one another' or 'together.' And certainly not 'side by side.' When a word has a specific meaning like this one, it needs to be used carefully.

re: Pedigree Handicapping With Brisnet.com & Doug Salvatore: Saturday, April 5, at Keeneland

mz — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:14:38 GMT

Yay, Babies!

Think that any of these might be at Royal Ascot a little later with Ward?