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I still use the two words appropriately. I think.
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Sneakingly, creepingly, some think annoyingly, twosleepy comes in to fix up the mess made of a Spanish word, guess that you never heard; "frijole" does not ex- ist; it's "frijol" no less! Spanglishly, manglishly statesians mess
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Faldo may have to say something better, but the whole misinterpreation in this usage I think is : you can do things unconsciously but you cannot think unconsciously. You can make gestures unconsciously, hum a tune unconsciously (you cannot really hu
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Weekly Themes
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Originally Posted By: BobVVoreIt is possible to love words, be a respectable thinker, and be religious. BobS Of course. But did we not get the same Thought for Today today? "A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Whenever two people meet, there are really six
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when I was first introduced to Psychology as a discipline (ha!), the subconscious mind was often spoken of. but this term was dropped soon thereafter in favor of unconscious due, I gather, to the ambiguity of the former term. Faldo may well have som
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The word "unconscious" seems to be used more frequently in the stead of "subconscious" which really bugs me. I hear it used this way by public speakers, such as politicians and news reporters. To me unconscious means comatose an
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Information and announcements
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After having read "The Great Train Robbery", I was delighted that seeing it was so much like reading it. Very few movies have that success in my eyes, "To Kill A Mockingbird" being one that also stands out. Of course, having S
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Weekly Themes
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Logy's AT4T A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if he didn't. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910) I'm always a little surprised at these less-than-subtle digs at religion. It is possib
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as is crwth. -joe (I wonder how they'd say that in Looahville?) friday
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Originally Posted By: GwynneFThanks, but yes, I was looking for English words ... although Welsh is close! "cwm" is an English word.
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Miscellany
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eta what a remarkably even-tempered fellow are you in this ferment of communal denunciation called the Blogosphere. I am incidentally dalehileman@verizon.net any time you feel the urge to exchange horror stories It is also interesting to note, inci
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Re: logy
by BranShea
@ 11/17/08 09:07 AM
Yeh,yeh, but I can't help associating it with "sleeping like a log". In the middle ages English and Dutch were so closely related and specially in the language coming from sailing, fishing ,boats and such. Well it's perhaps and sure we're
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I like the way the OED (Online Etymology Dictionary!) simplifies things [NB: not a recommendation]: "dull and heavy," 1848, Amer.Eng., perhaps from Du. log "heavy, dull." W3 adds, 'akin to Middle Low German luggich lazy, sleepy'
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He did say "perhaps." AHD agrees with him, adding that it may be a variant of loggy. The y would have been added in English, so its lack in the Dutch is no argument against this proposed etymology
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Weekly Themes
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logy
by BranShea
@ 11/17/08 06:34 AM
log (n.) 1398, of unknown origin. O.N. had lag "felled tree" (from stem of liggja "to lie"), but on phonological grounds etymologists deny that this is the root of Eng. log. Instead, they suggest an independent formation meant to
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Your COMICAL account deserves ACCLAIM
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Which is predictably all quite COMICAL
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Careful, we're addictive.
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COLICAL
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ALGOLIC logic!
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Change the N to an O - that's LOGICAL !
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the thing to remember is how you felt when you first started working with computers. they were pretty arcane then, too, and did things in unexpected ways. you are learning an entirely new operating system, and there will be many things that don't w
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London CALLING?
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tsu thank you for that link. I have no idea what's been installed but my IT No. 1 Son will no doubt advise on this point
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