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#182845 - 02/22/09 09:10 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: olly]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	So in Aotearoa you wouldn't call a transistor a valve. Is that what you're saying?
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#182847 - 02/22/09 09:28 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: Faldage]
olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 932 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand	So in Aotearoa you wouldn't call a transistor a valve. Is that what you're saying? Yep! Thats what I'm saying. As a youngster we had both a valve and transistor radios. Dad was an amateur radio enthusiast. He had an old army surplus unit about the size of a beer crate but twice as heavy. Fascinating machine!
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#182850 - 02/23/09 06:42 AM Re: feuilleton [Re: olly]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	Incidentally, it seems the electronic use of the term valve] sometimes takes the adjective thermionic. If there was no counterpart for the old-fashioned plumbing valve this would seem to be a case of the reverse of a retronym.
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#182854 - 02/23/09 10:58 AM Re: feuilleton [Re: PastorVon]
dalehileman Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1773 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA	Originally Posted By: PastorVon Originally Posted By: Zed No, silly, the drive is a place to store your car. Actually, the drive is the place to park the car or to access the facility in which the car may be "store"d, i.e., the garage. ;^) ******Von, Zed, is that usage peculiar to North Carolina and British Columbia since I've never heard the term used that way http://onelook.com/?w=drive&ls=a ....though "drive" is short for "driveway," used to mean a short paved road beside a dwelling, on which one is likely to park his car. Otherwise Laverne, who is much smarter than I, agrees we've never heard it used to mean a garage, etc _________________________ dalehileman
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#182873 - 02/23/09 06:09 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: dalehileman]
doc_comfort addict Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 618 Loc: Australia	This thread is all too high feuilleton for my liking.
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#182891 - 02/24/09 12:40 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: doc_comfort]
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	for doc True, I was stretching it a bit. Driveway is where you park your car beside the house. A drive is usually a fancy version of road, usually a scenic one as in "It's the second driveway on the right off Cholmondley Drive."
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#182892 - 02/24/09 12:49 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: Zed]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5291 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	As some comedian pointed out: Why is it we park on the drive way, and drive on the parkway? _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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#182940 - 02/25/09 03:54 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: doc_comfort]
dalehileman Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1773 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA	Originally Posted By: doc_comfort This thread is all too high feuilleton for my liking. Me too and though I can understand calling a rom a drive since some drives are really getting small ......I still say it would have been wrong to call a transistor a tube in accordance with some of the foregoing venue ...forgive me for the last one as I do sometimes incline to the facetious _________________________ dalehileman
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#182950 - 02/25/09 07:47 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: dalehileman]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	Your incident is that you need to word a blank on your findom.
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#183018 - 02/27/09 12:27 PM Re: feuilleton [Re: Faldage]
dalehileman Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1773 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA	Originally Posted By: Faldage Your incident is that you need to word a blank on your findom. http://onelook.com/?w=findom&ls=a _________________________ dalehileman
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