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hmm I have a little button here that makes post count not work in the lounge....
DanJuu nin to iro
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.Comment
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some people have too much power~Comment
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*snickers*
my next closest competitor would be deciminated
Last edited by Greebe; 25 April 2003, 11:17."Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark TwainComment
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Your next closest competitor would be reduced by 10%?
deci·mation n.
Usage Note: Decimate originally referred to the killing of every tenth person, a punishment used in the Roman army for mutinous legions. Today this meaning is commonly extended to include the killing of any large proportion of a group. Sixty-six percent of the Usage Panel accepts this extension in the sentence The Jewish population of Germany was decimated by the war, even though it is common knowledge that the number of Jews killed was much greater than a tenth of the original population. However, when the meaning is further extended to include large-scale destruction other than killing, as in The supply of fresh produce was decimated by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, only 26 percent of the Panel accepts the usage.Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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No, he said deciminated.. that could be either a mistyping of decimated or a misspelling of de-seminated.
These "usage panels" are bullshit! They go by the lowest common denominator principle. That is, if enough people are illiterate enough to use a word improperly, it suddenly BECOMES proper. This is exactly the same as all the mathematicians getting together and saying that 2+2=5. Why? Because most of their idiot students SAID it was! WRONG!! The truth is the TRUTH.. there is no definition by "usage."
What reference work did you find that in, Andrew?Comment
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Dictionary.com. It started with the definition, but I thought I had better quote the whole thing.
I agree with you completely, by the way. I hate when words are used improperly. My personal favourite is penultimate.Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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Oh, come on. Who could misuse that word?Originally posted by agallag
My personal favourite is penultimate.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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what does it even mean?Comment
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bah! I am not going to lower myself to your lowly standards!The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England
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Ahem - you were saying????The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing EnglandComment
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the thing before the ultimate (last)Originally posted by GuchiGuh
what does it even mean?
(quite the savant definition there )
I'll let you figure out what antepenultimate means though
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This reminds me, Anyone who knows what NASA really stands for?If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."Comment
Touche Paddy!
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