Posted on 07/23/2007 7:30:03 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
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Did you mean to say anything? You didn't, you know.
Yep, I agree. I think good writing is kind of like good engineering in that wherever possible you should try to use off-the-shelf materials, fasteners, etc. A custom part should only be used when something less specialized won’t get the job done.
However, it is fun every now and then to watch someone pop a wheelie and use a word like “moiety” even if it’s not totally called for.
Louisiana doesn't have easements. They have predial servitudes.
lol!
(Actually I kind of like that usage because the "and stuff" is so obviously flip and disarms cheezy learnedness of "paradigm")
It might be a run-on.
>subjugate
Where those who speak Hebrew board an underwater vessel.
“thermodynamics” does not derive from “thermal dynamics”, which would imply “the dynamics of heat”.
It expresses the idea of the interplay between heat energy and mechanical energy, and the laws governing this interplay. For example, we can calculate the mechanical work which can be obtained from a give thermal transformation.
In a similar spirit, he word “dynamo” is a contraction of “dynamo-electric”, expressing the conversion of mechanical to electrical energy, and of course there’s “magnetohydrodynamics”. I would even have to suppose that “aerodynamics” was conceived in the same way. That is, “dynamics as affected by, or in the presence of, air” as opposed to “the dynamics of air”.
—Mark Twain, American writer and journalist, Mark Twain Speeches
>homogeneous
Plato or Aristotle
Yes, in countries that base their laws upon the Code Napoleon.
All she lacks when she says this is the sound of her chewing gum crackling.
So you use the word “ziggurat” frequently?
Unless you are an Egyptologist, you are one odd bird.
(I had to look the word up)
Somehow, I’m reminded of Al Gore proudly trotting out the word “zeitgeist.” It was laughable pseudo-intellectualism on full display.
Speaking of all this very proper English, now I read that you had a “former Cajun” for a father-in-law. Tell me, how do they differ from present Cajuns? (Just kidding, doncha know?) (Wisconsin-speak)
LOL
They say brevity is the soul of wit. My humor this evening must be too subtle. Please excuse me.
“It was laughable pseudo-intellectualism on full display.”
As are many of the words on this list, IMHO! Maybe we could begin with ensuring that most high schoolers understood the difference between ask and axe.
Not in the least. It was a damn good job of editing in my opinion. I’d have to insist in including “with a subject and a predicate” though. ;-)
How about some hard ones??
That's what I figgered. So, you still think "moiety" should be an essential part of the vocabulary of Americans outside of Louisiana?
Once precipitously gerrymandering to assume her new totalitarian vortex, Emporer Clinton’s first chicanery will be to kowtow the senate and usurp the country.
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