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To: WaterDragon

...as it shambles..

You know you are about to receive a prime piece of Media BS when they pervert the language by using a Noun as a Verb. Don't they teach these people anything?



sham·bles ( P ) Pronunciation Key (shmblz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)

A scene or condition of complete disorder or ruin: “The economy was in a shambles” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
Great clutter or jumble; a total mess: made dinner and left the kitchen a shambles.

A place or scene of bloodshed or carnage.
A scene or condition of great devastation.
A slaughterhouse.
Archaic. A meat market or butcher shop.


68 posted on 05/07/2006 3:32:02 PM PDT by sgtyork (Prove to us that you can enforce the borders first.)
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To: sgtyork
> ... Media BS when they pervert the language by using a Noun as a Verb. Don't they teach these people anything?

Maybe not, but "shamble" is a legit verb, and they used it appropriately.

sham·ble Pronunciation Key (shmbl)

intr.v. sham·bled, sham·bling, sham·bles

To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.

181 posted on 05/07/2006 8:11:30 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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