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Word of the Day, Thursday, June 4, 2015 - Prolix
FRee Dictionary ^ | Thursday | tioga

Posted on 06/04/2015 5:35:23 AM PDT by tioga


In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.

Prolix

Adjective

    1. Tediously prolonged; wordy: editing a prolix manuscript.
    2. Tending to speak or write at excessive length.


Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)

Practice makes perfect.....post on....

Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)

Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister

Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate


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To: TheGrimReaper

LOL A+++


21 posted on 06/04/2015 6:43:23 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Old Sarge

LMAO A+++


22 posted on 06/04/2015 6:44:10 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

I apologize for the brevity, but prolix explanations would bore you all.

Suffice it to say: “I’m back.”


23 posted on 06/04/2015 6:48:07 AM PDT by theDentist (FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: xsmommy

I guess you’re not following my tweets.

My reaction yesterday to “Let’s all use the metric system!”:

Yeah, and let’s play football with our feet.


24 posted on 06/04/2015 6:48:57 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

I swear he was the Dumbest man in the Senate from about 2001 through 2006.

And that takes some doing.


25 posted on 06/04/2015 6:52:39 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: theDentist

Welcome back!!!


26 posted on 06/04/2015 6:53:27 AM PDT by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

Damn. That is worth a retweet.

I miss most tweets because I follow back my 4,000 followers, making my newsfeed to big to be useful.


27 posted on 06/04/2015 6:53:42 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: TheGrimReaper; xsmommy

Hillary is a pro lix (ewww) vs Chaffee is a metrix (hehehehe)


28 posted on 06/04/2015 6:55:29 AM PDT by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: SoothingDave

haven’t been on any social media for some time, kind of got some stuff going on! this was being discussed on drivetime radio and football was one of the major drawbacks to it! the ones calling in favor of it were all engineers.


29 posted on 06/04/2015 6:56:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman

AND he said he lives in CANADA and that announcement was about as impassioned as I don’t know what.


30 posted on 06/04/2015 6:57:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: RikaStrom

perfect!


31 posted on 06/04/2015 6:58:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Living in Canada?

If we could get him on ticket with Jeb Bush we could go full NAFTA/NAU.

I now think that is going to happen some day. i used to think people who thought that were crazy.


32 posted on 06/04/2015 7:29:15 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman
the days of thinking black helicopters and tin foil were for the nutty are long past!
33 posted on 06/04/2015 7:36:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga; SoothingDave; xsmommy

They had a ice cream cone competition at Baskin Robbins the other day ... Amateur and pro-licker divisions of course.


34 posted on 06/04/2015 7:39:06 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: theDentist

welcome back!


35 posted on 06/04/2015 7:40:06 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Measurement systems are tools. I have no problem using what I need to use. I don’t see any need to try to convert a culture.

The metric system has its merits in some cases. In others, not. Celsius is a horrible system. Degrees are too large (you have to use one decimal point for any precision) and the scale is about useless for human activity. (0-100 F is the “normal” range of human existence, much more everyday practical than the boiling/freezing points of water.)

The metric system is not natural. It tries to make up for lack of naturalness with ease of conversion. It’s a hard sell.

People have cups of milk and pints of beer. There are inches and feet and yards to measure different scales of things. There is no metric commonly-used measure between centimeters and meters. Beverages have to be measured in hundreds of milliliters or tens of centimeters.

In Canada they have “metric gallons” of milk (4 liters) for sale. Why? Because a gallon is a practical size for a family. It just doesn’t conveniently fit on a “multiple of ten” boundary.

Give up a connection to the English language and a naturally-evolved system so a Frenchman only has to divide by ten? That’s not very conservative.


36 posted on 06/04/2015 8:02:04 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

yes, I have always thought it was BS.


37 posted on 06/04/2015 8:03:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I remember once on the TV show Taxi, Louie asks Rev Jim why he hadn’t shown up for work.

“I don’t work weekends.”

“You’ve been gone for 9 days!”

“I thought we switched to the metric system.”


38 posted on 06/04/2015 8:47:03 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

LOL A+++


39 posted on 06/04/2015 8:47:27 AM PDT by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

LOL!


40 posted on 06/04/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by xsmommy
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