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To: Your Nightmare

"Collate"!?! Is that what you call it?

Sorry to inform you of one of the basics of life you seem to have missed in what could only be assumed to be a spoon fed existence, the unfortunate fact is information is always spread out among many sources.

In a perfect world everything would be all together in one precise paper, the answers with 6 decimal place crystal ball accuracy, and easily found and available to all for view.

But in the real world, one collates the resource available and if real lucky might not be directly charged for it.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?collate

Main Entry: col·late
Pronunciation: k&-'lAt, kä-, kO-; 'kä-", 'kO-"
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): col·lat·ed; col·lat·ing
Etymology: back-formation from collation
1 a : to compare critically b : to collect , compare carefully in order to verify, and often to integrate or arrange in order
2 [Latin collatus, past participle] : to institute (a cleric) to a benefice
3 a : to verify the order of (printed sheets) b : to assemble in proper order; especially : to assemble (as printed sheets) in order for binding
synonym see COMPARE


249 posted on 08/29/2004 9:45:45 AM PDT by ancient_geezer (Equality, the French disease: Everyone is equal beneath the guillotine.)
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To: ancient_geezer
1 a : to compare critically b : to collect , compare carefully in order to verify, and often to integrate or arrange in order
Well you obviously aren't collating.
250 posted on 08/29/2004 10:53:38 AM PDT by Your Nightmare
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