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Captain Willard
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| haller_79 wrote: |
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| Or did he mean "Hear! Hear!"? |
Wow, you're both wrong, but at least the first guy wasn't trying to be a smart alec.
HEAR, HERE! |
When Prof. Tolkien wrote it, it was definately "Hear! Hear!". Now, his works are still copyrighted by his estate, so they are not available online. However, he did help write the Oxford Dictionary of the English language.
Nevertheless, the online sources appear to be in agreement that "Hear! Hear!" is a shortened form of the exhortation, "Hear him! Hear him!" and it is used to express agreement with a speaker:
http://www.answers.com/topic/hear-hear
My parents did not send me to school to be dumb!
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deadlift
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| Nor did they hope for you to become a smug pedant, I expect. |
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Mr. Kalgukshi
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:56 am Post subject: |
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If this continues, the thread will not.
There will be sanctions, as well. |
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Captain Willard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| I can state very affirmatively without violating the TOS that my parents are both very well educated, and now being retired, enjoy doing the daily crossword puzzles and cryptograms in the newspaper. They do not consider the ability to use a dictionary as being either smug or pedant. |
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