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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
[ T1ts, however are limited to female mammals like cows, goats and bulls.
bag vs sack |
Maybe in your world. But t1ts is a widely used word for the female mamory gland... |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Fantastic and Wonderful are easy. Just look at the root words, fantasy and wonder, which are related but different concepts. |
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wowser
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Location: Kyonggi do
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject: just saw this... |
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I'm being a bezatch for the sake of it......I just saw this quote this morning.....Gang ah jee- since when has 'irregardless' become a word?!?!?
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| Not a big fan of vocabulary, khyber? Irregardless of your feelings on this, the game must go on. |
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-irr1.htm
From Randall E Larson in Tucson: �I have more than once seen the corruption irregardless used in some standard writings and with a straight face. Has it become acceptable?�
[A] The word is thoroughly and consistently condemned in all American references I can find. But it�s also surprisingly common. It�s formed from regardless by adding the negative prefix ir-; as regardless is already negative, the word is considered a logical absurdity.....[/b] |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: just saw this... |
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| wowser wrote: |
I'm being a bezatch for the sake of it......I just saw this quote this morning.....Gang ah jee- since when has 'irregardless' become a word?!?!?
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| Not a big fan of vocabulary, khyber? Irregardless of your feelings on this, the game must go on. |
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-irr1.htm
From Randall E Larson in Tucson: �I have more than once seen the corruption irregardless used in some standard writings and with a straight face. Has it become acceptable?� |
(I wasn't using it with a straight face...) |
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wowser
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Location: Kyonggi do
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, sorry sorry?!  |
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