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the word 'bound'
Posted on 11/12/2010 6:42:42 PM PST by perfect stranger
The word "bound".
The verb tense means 'to leap forward', but the adjective of the word means the inability to do the same. Does this make sense?
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Please answer in English words. They may number 2-552.
To: perfect stranger
The plural of mouse is mice.
The plural of louse is lice.
The plural of house is not hice.
The plural of moose is not mice.
This makes perfect sense.
To: perfect stranger
This conflict was bound to come up.
To: perfect stranger
Does this make sense?
It's bound to.
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:49:48 PM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
(Worst. Post-Racial. And Post-Partisan. Agent Of Hope And Change. EVER.)
To: perfect stranger
We park on driveways and drive on parkways - does that make sense?
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:49:55 PM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
To: perfect stranger
Look up bind and catch an unbound clue.
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:51:37 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(Farrago fatigans! - Thuffering thuccotash!)
To: RegulatorCountry
It’s awful when you have mouses and louses in your houses.
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:53:29 PM PST
by
Mears
To: perfect stranger
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:55:47 PM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: perfect stranger
Kind of like the word sanction.
An event can be sanctioned, and thus approved.
Misconduct can lead to sanctions, or punishment.
Weird huh?
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:57:22 PM PST
by
Clump
(the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
To: perfect stranger
Raise a child
Raze a building
To: perfect stranger
“We bound them hand and foot.” would belie your meaning, and would be a verb. Interesting that two uses of the same word are so different; the first to leap, the second to fetter.
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:59:51 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: perfect stranger
‘English is not math’ I tell my adult English/ESL student, who grew up in China, when she laughs and asks me questions about our very complex, built-by-humans, wonderful language.
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posted on
11/12/2010 6:59:53 PM PST
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: perfect stranger
When the wind winds around the hills, nothing makes sense, I guess.
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posted on
11/12/2010 7:10:02 PM PST
by
irishtenor
(All that I say, all that I do, is predestined.)
To: perfect stranger
Your nose is running and your feet smell.
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posted on
11/12/2010 7:11:27 PM PST
by
BufordP
("Drink me if you can't take a joke." -- Kool-aid)
To: perfect stranger
Some one was bound to define the bounds of verbiage and forget the adjective of how one can become bound to a line of thought as if someone had bound their brain with the pejorative shackles of the mind.
But on the out bound of the bourne we are held to this earth from whence we came.
Is that out of bounds?
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posted on
11/12/2010 7:11:36 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: perfect stranger
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
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posted on
11/12/2010 7:13:00 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Pelosi: Like a rapist, PROUD of their handiwork.)
To: perfect stranger
If a race car is bound with a Denver boot, it is stuck fast. But if released, it can be driven away fast.
To: Lazamataz
More on the word fast.
Lazamataz likes to indulge with fast girls. But when he wants to abstain from vice, he might go on a fast.
To: Lazamataz
Oh I was bound to use you as an example my friend.
To: perfect stranger
THIS was bound to happen on this thread.....
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posted on
11/12/2010 7:28:52 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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