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> I thought maybe electric jugs had to do with the German Stopsemfromfloppenelektrifizierung.
Shocking. You won't have any support from the rest of us when the gutter police see this one!!!
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As for moi, I'm still tittering  at CapK's and Faldage's ovine quid-pro-quo...
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I've got all I can do to keep abreast  of this exchange.
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What Faldage means is ... droit de seigneur age on his manor is limited to sheep?! In a manor of speaking, of course. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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It's interesting that "proactive" has been used as an example for functionality. According to the New York Times Everyday Dictionary of 1982, the word means "favoring the first learned -- inhibition". Obviously, that is just the opposite of how the word is popularly used. The word now has no function because the meaning must be determined by the context. "Pro-active" might be a proper spelling for the current usage, but that doesn't help in an oral presentation.
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Wish I could have known of that one for words learned in genealogy.Now I must go wash the garbage off my bandage (residue of lunch) and hope I may achieve second nonage since I may not become a nonagenarian.
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Ted R wrote : I use these terms in place of coming and continuing because they convey a message that is otherwise lost. ------------------------------------ You have made very good points in your Posted reasonings. So good, in fact that I shall re-think my "Harumph!" Thank you TEd.  wow
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belM wrote : continuing can mean it stopped and is now starting over.
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An interesting and cogent observation. You and Ted may yet drag me into the 21st century kick and scream tho I may.
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The bane of my existence right now is 'verbiage,' which I'm constrained to use at work.
Can't we just say 'words?'
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