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Re: jeopardous
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 10:36 PM
couldous adj. concerned with possibility or capability: The motivational speaker gave his usual couldous talk.
Forget it; I made it up. Whew, now I don't have to go back and attempt to give the pronunciation.
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Re: Sidebums
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BranShea
Yesterday at 02:59 PM
Originally Posted By: dalehileman
(2) Did anyone at first glance misread the heading as "sideburns"
Me, no. But I like your word as a headline for our avatars
here.
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Re: Sideburns
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Myridon
Yesterday at 02:23 PM
In one of Sheri S. Tepper's books, a primitive culture is visited by a space traveller whom they mistake for a god. After all the planet's problems are solved, the space traveller leaves with the parting remark "Don't let anyone mess with your heads
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Re: Help!
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 12:51 PM
and then Sonic (the Hedgehog) declaimith not:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face
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Re: dyspareunia
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zmjezhd
Yesterday at 10:24 AM
"autoquiroerastia"
well, qu is not something you find in Greek words. It doesn't bring to mind anything in Latin. (Perhaps it's related to the Catalan cognate of Spanish querer 'to want, desire' which is from Latin quaro, quaerare, 'to loo
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Re: jazey
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morphememedley
05/15/08 01:47 PM
Flax? Ah yes, good fiber in the event a jazey is accidentally ingested during a windstorm.
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Q&A about words
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Re: Synonym for "farmer"
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BranShea
05/15/08 11:35 AM
farmer
1. A person who operates a farm.
2. United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920).
3. An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915).
Sourc
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Re: "Go to lunch" or " Go for lunch"?
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callithump
05/14/08 07:39 AM
I'm interted in programming too. The languages I'm using are java-like ones, such as C#. never tried lisp.
Sounds it's a good one. I'll try to learn about it...
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Re: Build Your Vocabulary and Fight Hunger
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Jackie
05/13/08 10:45 PM
It goes up to 60, now. Aw, man! The times I've gotten to 50, I quit because it was the best I could do. Now I'll have to go on...and on...and on.
EDIT: "You have now donated 2520 grains of rice." I got up to 51...for one word. My mi
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Re: facial hair
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Jackie
05/12/08 09:54 PM
I haven't shaved in over 25 years And, does your location explain that? ;-) Welcome aBoard!
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Re: Hair
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twosleepy
05/12/08 06:57 PM
I beg to differ on this one, Anna and of troy. Alopecia is the loss of hair, not the state of being hairless. The opposite of alopecia would be a word meaning the unexplained gaining of hair, which is not the definition of hirsute. This is why I didn
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Re: Capitalization of eponyms?
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Faldage
05/12/08 06:40 PM
Originally Posted By: latishya decided my English was not strong enough to tell a native speaker something about his own language.
He's from Australia. They don't speak English there.
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Re: apple or banana?
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BranShea
05/12/08 04:09 PM
> comparing apples and oranges again, jheem?
It just needed that little push from collegues apparently to get to the final truth of the matter. I'm grateful for your combined special efforts. It may not be relevant as to the point of t
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Re: Happy Mothers' Day!!!
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BranShea
05/12/08 10:54 AM
Yes, messy and decadent. Much better to take your mother out for ,to , at, with, or on lunch.
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Re: Happy Birthday SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM!
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The Pook
05/11/08 12:25 PM
Originally Posted By: MyridonBackronym = The Pook means The Person Of Obscure Knowledge. (unless I guessed that right ;-) ).
You didn't, it's impossible to guess the orgin of The Pook, but I like that. Perhaps I should adopt it. However,
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Re: this question begs asking
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Jackie
05/10/08 09:35 PM
Dunno about a name, but I just sent the free rice link (thanks, Steffani) to some friends, and told them to trust their instincts: what your first thought is is often correct, there.
And, besides being so similar in shape, the m and n key
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Re: toil and trouble
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twosleepy
05/10/08 11:19 AM
Hi Steffani! Does you mom say it "shtefahni"? Do you have a nickname "Steffi" (or "shteffi"? I stayed with a German family in Chile, and they had a daughter they called Steffi (with the sh sound). Just curious! :0)
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