How can anyone, in this country, not know what visitation means when it's on the news forty times a day?

Is it 'visiting times' or 'visitation times' at a hospital? Is 'visitation' mainly used in the legal context (except when referring to 'a visitation') ?

I'm pretty sure we all know what it means. I'm just trying to figure out why 'visiting rights' sounds wrong to me. Style? Accustomed usage? Is it actually ungrammatical in my dialect of English?

I think it's probably the very reason you cite: visitation rights is pretty ubiquitous in the States.

OK, to add to banned words:

Using "that" instead of "who." For example "People who love spaghetti will love this new restaurant" rather than "people that love spaghetti will love this new restaurant."

For some reason, in the past year or so, using "that" when "who" is more appropriate is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

So now we have language police, LOL

So now we have idiots, LOL.

Hey numnuts, the thread calls for adding to the list of words you want to see "banned" in 2008. Banned in context, because you know we'll need words like 'surge' for use in, say, electrical discussions.

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Simply because 'visiting rights' is not what you're use to hearing on the news 40 times a day. There are a lot of correct English words that sound strange because they are seldom used. See any UG post.

"robsterman1"

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sorry - I couldn't resist.

Thou art grated dispensation for the sin of, stating the obvious.

You mean I have an incredible perception of the obvious?

Actually I menat to type in "Aretha's Doctor", but Freud convinced me otherwise ;)

Possibly prophetic powers of prognostication, or possibly perception of the peoples pulse.

So let me get this straight - it's supposed to be "visiting rights", except on Halloween when it becomes "visitation rights"?

well, I was thinking more in terms of seances and genuine hauntings*, rather than the annual legalized extortion of harmful junkfood...

*If there are genuine hauntings, that is.


P.S. Classicman post #38: bahahahahahaha! :notworthy: Classic, man!