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Word For The Day, Thursday, February 8, 2012 - cacography
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| 8 February 2012
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Posted on 02/09/2012 4:45:34 AM PST by secret garden
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posted on
02/09/2012 4:46:53 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: anyone
Please change the date in the title to the 9th. Thank you.
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posted on
02/09/2012 4:55:31 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Good morning. I am visiting three of the grandchildren in Texas, but I will try to get my homework done.
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posted on
02/09/2012 4:55:38 AM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(How bad would an Obama II administration be, without the constraints of re-election?)
To: secret garden
dang was sure this had to do with feces-consumption!
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posted on
02/09/2012 4:58:41 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
no sleeping in for Grampy, i see! ; )
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posted on
02/09/2012 4:59:30 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
I engaged in a little cacography in yesterday’s WFTD thread.
I was rapidly corrected!
To: secret garden
My attempt at calligraphy and orthography resulted in cacography.
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:03:14 AM PST
by
edpc
(Wilby 2012)
To: secret garden
Across this great nation’s geography
Many youngsters succumbed to cacography
Tweet and text with a thumb
Make all standards undone
It’s a grammar and spelling pornography
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:03:37 AM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(How bad would an Obama II administration be, without the constraints of re-election?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
![](http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:bm960o9lQ3jZoM:http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/first-place-blue-ribbon.jpg)
Good for you!
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:08:27 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: xsmommy
Plus, it’s an hour earlier here. Geez—it’s a day earlier as well, according to today’s heading. Apparently, I crossed the international dateline somewhere between New Jersey and Texas.
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:08:27 AM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(How bad would an Obama II administration be, without the constraints of re-election?)
To: xsmommy
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:09:43 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: left that other site
![](http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRu_9oAQO_L1IPQCCLrbwQKC6OBIqpsw5Tkrw18dL0YWcErFsT)
A for you!
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:10:42 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: edpc
![](http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRXZV-26bUhPJe_4py_EHJZwbnj5npr6Ppx2KGIfdkYs8bw9G4)
A for you!
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:11:45 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
A+ for you. I really did type in the wrong date. I was using a template from January and couldn’t just add 7 to it. Plus when I tried to correct it, I got a series of proxy and server errors and couldn’t find a poster named ad mod, or even administrator/moderator to redo it.
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:14:10 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
LOL on the international dateline, but yes, i was immediately thinking that it was an hour earlier there and here you are bright eyed and bushy tailed!
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:20:38 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
the ad mods really do need to identify themselves better here and make themselves accessible. who else to throw the sawdust on vomit in the hallways should someone take sick, etc? ; )
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:28:10 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
My penmanship was good in grammer and Junior High School.... it was even quite legible in High school. But once I entered college, where note taking was speed-dependent, it became a cacography based on caffeine, lack of sleep, hangover and kitchen-scratch. Which explains Doctor’s scrawls.
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:38:33 AM PST
by
theDentist
(FYBO/FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: secret garden
"Some reformers thought spelling should reflect the etymological background of words" It can only be in a language that acquires words from other languages that this concept would even arise.
Yet how else can a language grow to encompass more ideas and more ways of expressing them except through such acquisitiveness?
Worthy of a different discussion perhaps, but through invention and combination of existing words, as answer to my own question. Cacography would also only be considered a problem among those for whom literacy is widespread, rather than confined to a select few.
Most of us make the excuse for the poor quality of our writing by saying that we are in a hurry. If the most permanent part of your passage through the day is not worthy of careful scrutiny and attention to detail, what is?
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:39:12 AM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
To: secret garden
With far left Catholics, like Mark Shields and FPL Matthews, spitting mad over it, i full expect Obams, prior to the election, to claim that the
abrogation of the conscience clause was mere cacography. BUT then as soon as he wins reelection it will be a no holds barred assault on EVERYTHING we hold dear. Obams, without needing to face the electorate again, will go full bore Stalin on us.
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posted on
02/09/2012 5:54:48 AM PST
by
xsmommy
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