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Posted on 03/31/2002 5:16:38 PM PST by SrBirdman
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To: TheConservator
Sorry about that. I stand corrected. My cogitations and expatiations should have been plural not possessive. My editor overlooked that. (Me)
To: ewchil
You could just call them wastrels Wastrels has a nuance (can I use that?) that is inappropriate.
To: SrBirdman
I'll keep that in mind when I communicate with the plebeians.
To: SrBirdman
The student, who had written 'had,' had had 'had had.' 'Had had' had had the teacher's approval.
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:13:15 PM PST
by
jigsaw
To: TheConservator
And for G*d's sake learn when to use apostrophes, and when not to! The apostrophe's look fine to me.
To: otterpond
hehe
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:16:12 PM PST
by
hoot33
To: otterpond; jigsaw
that that that there that after that that? otterpond had is also inappropriate
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:16:53 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: jigsaw
Don't you think that Freeper's can handle the vocabulary words? It is at Democrat Underground that they have the problem.
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:17:37 PM PST
by
Plutarch
To: TheConservator
"And for G*d's sake learn when to use apostrophes, and when not to!"
Apostrophes dont mean nothin to nobody no more. Its just part of the deteriorati... umm, evolution of the language. May as well get used to it.
To: SrBirdman
"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain." -- Liza Doolittle
To: otterpond
Oh well. I should think it still more effective than using words that no one knows.
I think that if I had to communicate your phrase I would go with the long line of short words that people know rather than the short line of long words that people don't know. Better than that though, I would search for a better word. Alas, I tried and failed...
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:23:08 PM PST
by
ewchil
To: SrBirdman
Sedulously avoid all polysyllable profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vivacity, ventriloquial verbosity and magniloquent rapidity. Shun double entendres, previnient jacosity and pestifereous profanity, observant or apparent.
That's "polysyllabic profundity". And how is rapidity (or torporousness, for that matter) ever able to be magniloquent? Double entendres, however, are to be used wherever the effect is desired. At least the writer knew the difference between pestiferous profanity and the truly useful kind.
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:23:13 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: SrBirdman
Bookmarked for future reference.
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:24:12 PM PST
by
aomagrat
To: cornelis
that that that there that after that that? otterpond had is also inappropriateWhat the HELL are you drinking and can I get some?
To: week 71
Shakespear = Shakespeare (Nitpick 1)
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:24:44 PM PST
by
Hostage
To: ewchil
People who use the nonword "irregardless" deserve banishment.
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:26:26 PM PST
by
Hostage
To: OneidaM; lepton; Utah Girl; MozartLover
ping
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:26:33 PM PST
by
kayak
To: otterpond
Francis Coppola Diamond Series Black Label Claret (1999 Cabernet Sauvignon)
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:27:32 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: SrBirdman
bookBump
To: Hostage
I hope then that I never deserve banishment...
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:31:29 PM PST
by
ewchil
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