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I like big words. Please post a $5 word. It confounds all them stuffed shirts! I'll start. Disambiguation. Disamnosephorous. ![[Linked Image]](http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd257/priv8pete/jolly-moose-cartoon.gif) Okay, I made that last one up, but it sounds all important-like!
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/AP39Jhm.jpg)
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Our God reigns.
Harrumph!!!
I often use quick reply. My posts are not directed toward any specific person unless I mention them by name.
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Of the lowly bean
some wax ecstatic.
I don't know why
for as hard as I try,
I find it to be flatulatic.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Antidisestablishmentarianism.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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One of the words I reserve for snide remarks is "deprecated." A perfectly fine word but it sounds so nasty!
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Inverse Helical Four Phase Turboentabulator
Capacious
Prestidigitation
Want a $10 word?
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Last edited by DigitalDan; 02/20/15.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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"Poetical" has been in English usage for at least some centuries. I had no difficulty tracing it back to 1470. Like other words its usage has waxed and waned, but it isn't new.
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At this point I think that parenthetical to the discussion. In some ways, parenthetically poetical.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Perhaps parenthetically perniciously poetical?
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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This is just what I meant. I said to my wife, "Darlin', this is just what I meant!" She said, "Yep, you said whatever it was you said, and then you said, 'That's just what I mean!' And I know you. I know that's what you meant. Them $5 words is funny!" Then I give her a Valentimes gift. She said, "My goodness! I don't know what to say. I'm beside myself!" I said, "No, that's not what you meant. It's actually me beside myself!" ![[Linked Image]](https://40.media.tumblr.com/8363ed70531f82ebf70cc758c2b6d2c9/tumblr_n106cqBKb01rvh342o1_500.jpg)
Safe Shooting! Steve Redgwell www.303british.comGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain Member - Professional Outdoor Media Association of Canada
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Somebody I know decided to Google it, and apparently some dictionaries list it now. Supposibly
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." TJ
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". EB
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Having Google on the next tab Mirriam-Webster has it. They note the "poetical" was first known to be used in the 14th century. Apparently contorting the king's English is not something new under the sun.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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You can't contort what doesn't exist. The distinction between "correct" and "incorrect" English was imaginary at best in the 14th century.
(Steve, that is...words fail me.)
Ella
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The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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It's still relatively imaginary. English dictionaries are based on "common usage," not what's considered correct by, say, a panel of professors.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Yeah, but not everybody's usage is considered "common" enough to count. And there is a panel of professors responsible for the MLA manual with which college profs beat their students. 
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