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#114442 - 10/26/03 12:26 PM Uberbanality
musick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/24/00 Posts: 2658 Loc: Chicago	...on the outermost fringe of popular culture, I.... must... resist...... OW, I broke something. ************ Is it me, or are these just trucker hats and tuques? Just trucker hats, that's all. There's something slightly suspicious about anything that uses the prefix "uber" in its description.
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#114443 - 10/26/03 01:08 PM Re: uber-urbanality
sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui	In reply to: Is it me, or are these just trucker hats and tuques? What does this mean? _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#114444 - 10/26/03 01:08 PM Re: Uberbanality
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3776 Loc: Worcester, MA	Anyone up for making an appropriate double-dactyl verse with "uber-urbanity"?
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#114445 - 10/26/03 01:33 PM Re: Uberbanality
musick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/24/00 Posts: 2658 Loc: Chicago	Excellent suggestion, wolfee! However, I'll leave it to someone else to fulfill your request for "appropriateness"... ************ Anna the strophic one backs from the lookwards side searching for samples of hoi polloi style googling phenomenon's uberurbanity finding results just a reason to smile.
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#114446 - 10/26/03 01:45 PM Re: Uberbanality
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	a tip 'o the glass to ye, musick! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#114447 - 10/26/03 01:58 PM Re: uber-urbanality
moss member Registered: 10/18/01 Posts: 104	"the hoi poloi" is redundant, in that it contains two articles where it needs only one and ...indeed, as Faldage had pointed out in an über-subtle way ... thou shalt not make of thy fellow AWADer chopped liver without running risk of being called on said mantling Who will assume the "mantling" position first? Extract from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition "Since the Greek phrase includes an article, some critics have argued that the phrase the hoi polloi is redundant. But phrases borrowed from other languages are often reanalyzed in English as single words. For example, a number of Arabic noun phrases were borrowed into English as simple nouns. The Arabic element al- means “the,” and appears in English nouns such as alcohol and alchemy. Thus, since no one would consider a phrase such as “the alcohol” to be redundant, criticizing the hoi polloi on similar grounds seems pedantic." P.S. Who's "chopped liver" now?
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#114448 - 10/26/03 02:01 PM Re: uber-urbanality
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	criticizing the hoi polloi on similar grounds seems pedantic How droll.
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#114449 - 10/26/03 02:07 PM Re: uber-urbanality
musick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/24/00 Posts: 2658 Loc: Chicago	Assume the position [over the "mantling"]: She did say "über-subtle"... editSeems to lend a different perspective when one has "uber-time" on their side...
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#114450 - 10/26/03 04:21 PM Re: uber-urbanality
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	Right. Got it. I accept the mantle of pedant with as much grace as I can muster.
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#114451 - 10/27/03 11:22 AM Re: uber-urbanality
moss member Registered: 10/18/01 Posts: 104	I accept the mantle of pedant with as much grace as I can muster. Dear Father Steve: I certainly would not call you a "pedant". I simply took a sharp rebuke and sent it back to its rightful owner. Truth is, I admire your scholarly familiarity with Greek. I do not think it is necessarily the sine qua non of a proper education nowadays, but it is certainly knowledge admirably transmitted, like sunlight, to illuminate and not to impress. That is your way, Father Steve, for which you are all the more esteemed by all who know you. It is not the way of a pedant.
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