Shudn't their be sum way too correct what gets wrote? - Yes, there is!

[Scandichic]

Well. I wooooouuuld, of course I would, but I have to read this very long link now......Sorry....I have got as far as 'collective noun'

 

[zand]

Hark at you, with your Kerouac and Proust! Hope this is read in the original language! Personally, I prefer Sartre, if I must read French! Give me Goethe any day. Actually, give me some Henning Mankell or Helene Tursten, in the original language - please, although I shouldn't be admitting to this, when talking about such heavyweight authors - lol!

Oh, I am out of my depth on this thread again. Does having read Flaubert 'Trois Contes' count towards making me sound a little more intelligent? Or Les Aventures de Paddington?

 

[paul-1976]

Oh, I am out of my depth on this thread again. Does having read Flaubert 'Trois Contes' count towards making me sound a little more intelligent? Or Les Aventures de Paddington?

I like Paddington but his marmalade sandwiches are too high in carbs for my liking.

 

[phoenix]

What we need now is a link to a 200 page scientific study


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Well if you want: Exactly 200 pages. You'll have to buy it though. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hypoglycemia-Pathophysiology-Diagnosis-Philip-Cryer/dp/019511325X
Here are a couple of simple definitions of hypoglycaemia
OED:
Hypoglycaemia: Deficiency of glucose in the bloodstream. (OED) (from hypo -glyco -aemia : below, pertaining to sugar, substance in the blood
Joslin:
"Low blood glucose or hypoglycemia is one of the most common problems associated with insulin treatment, but it can also happen to people with diabetes taking pills. In general, hypoglycemia is defined as a blood glucose level below 70 mg/dl "
ADA
Asymptomatic hypoglycemia.
An event not accompanied by typical symptoms of hypoglycemia but with a measured plasma glucose concentration ≤70 mg/dl (3.9 mmol/l).

 

[noblehead]

Who really cares about spelling and grammar, this is only a forum to share experiences and advice about living with diabetes and nothing else, besides there are members on here who have dyslexia and dyspraxia so considerations should be shown before criticism are made.

 

[michaeldavid]

No dictionary is faultless.

And one should always bear in mind that the etymology of a word is one thing, and the meaning quite another thing.

If you found me sitting in a freezer, and shivering, you wouldn't stop to take my temperature before wrapping something around me.

Let me repeat this:

I very commonly have blood-sugar readings well below normal (below 4mmol/l), but I hardly ever have hypos at all.

So, either I'm an alien, or the definitions you quote are simply wrong. (Well, that's either or both.)

 

[Scandichic]

I like Paddington but his marmalade sandwiches are too high in carbs for my liking.

Leaving any experiments with bread for a few days after the brouhaha with the rice. I only ever liked the marmalade without the bits. I think that Paddington is fundamentally flawed as everyone knows that bears eat honey. I was brought up on Winnie the Pooh and honey sandwiches too. Although I am not a bear. Only in the figurative sense, when someone takes my last square of dark chocolate!

 

[Scandichic]

No dictionary is faultless.

And one should always bear in mind that the etymology of a word is one thing, and the meaning quite another thing.

If you found me sitting in a freezer, and shivering, you wouldn't stop to take my temperature before wrapping something around me.

Let me repeat this:

I very commonly have blood-sugar readings well below normal (below 4mmol/l), but I hardly ever have hypos at all.

So, either I'm an alien, or the definitions you quote are simply wrong. (Well, that's either or both.)

How to use a comma:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/comma

 

[izzzi]

O dear I have mild Dyslexia,
I am not offended. there are ways to get round the problem.
Sometimes a little prick hurts when taking a bg test, but not the Ps in a forum that thinks we all should write correctly.
Sorry if I missread the point michaeldavid was getting at, but spellcheck is not that clever yet.

 

[michaeldavid]

How to use brackets:

"(Symptoms resulting from) low blood glucose."

I found that definition somewhere on the internet.

It's particularly notable - and shocking - that the OED entry makes no reference to behaviour.

 

[Dillinger]

This is the internet - it's easily accessible to anyone! They don't make us take basic intelligence or proficiency tests before we can start using it, so you shouldn't really expect that everyone online is going to be as intelligent as you are.

I misread that as 'pregnancy tests before we can start using it' which made me raise an eyebrow in a Roger Moore type way...

 

[Scandichic]

I misread that as 'pregnancy tests before we can start using it' which made me raise an eyebrow in a Roger Moore type way...