Posted on 07/23/2007 7:30:03 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
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After sleeping on it, I do want to clarify my answer. In common law jurisdictions you might be able to reach the same result by arguing failure of consideration, unconsionability, or fraud. But the common law isn't as elegant as the civil system, and the results are more subject to the whims of a jury.
"Impact" is not a verb unless it's something that has happened to a wisdom tooth.
More generally, I decree that management consultants have lost their writing privileges unless and until they get over their conviction that anything that can be said in five words can be better said in twenty.
Know it? Baby, he lived it!
You use ‘ziggurat’ often? In what context? ;)
The last time I tried to buy a used car.
What part of ‘moiety’ don’t you understand? ;)
very clever....
but i don’t think i like the word “feckless” at all..
i vote to remove that one..
it depends on who your audience is. if you have uneducated, ignorant companions day to day, than i totally agree. i hear these words all the time in my circles, and i’m a stay at home mother of four.
excellent! All the words I teach my children every single day (we homeschool, but that’s beside the point).
Two of my four were at a friends house all day yesterday, (they have three of their own), and when I picked up the girls in the evening, the parents / Grandparents told me my kids can come back ANY TIME, since they hope and pray their good manners will rub off on THEIR kids. The girls said all day the grownups kept referring to their “good manners” (simple please & thank you, may-i-be-excused from the table, etc.) and the girls didn’t understand what the big deal was? To them, that’s what everyone does (or should do)....
My girls are 13 and 10...btw..
“xenophobe”
How PC.
Sorry this list has no gravitas. :)
And I thought it had to do with a mohel ;-)
Haven’t seen moiety used in anything written since 1895. Not that it hasn’t been used anywhere but on FR, just haven’t seen it.
We, the United States have had to abjure ourselves of the tempetuous nihilism based paradigm of islam by sending our xenophobic sanguine troops armed with nanotechnology to enforce our hegemony of the global kinetic infrastructure while supercilous, churlish, totalitarian democrats wax loquaciously and attmpet to kowotow to our enemies as they try to gerrymander their disctricts, impeach the President and ennervate our nation.
You did notice that sesquipedalian was not on the list?
That was a remarkable quote for it shows Twain’s practical side as well as his humorous side; however, since he likely got paid for the piece as a whole, he has to admit that he just did what he claimed to avoid.
Paying by the word encourages verbosity.
Wit demands brevity.
That is the most incorrectly phrased sentence I have read.
Every time I see that fat pig, Barney Frank.
But, I am drawn to the avuncular aura of Fred Thompson.
Which reflects the very degredation of the common vocabulary which the publisher of this list is attempting to remedy.
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