#209030 - 01/15/13 12:16 AM
Trying yet again
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#209034 - 01/15/13 04:46 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Registered: 05/10/10
Posts: 691
Loc: Alaska
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Jackie, I can read you post if I click "Quick Quote." I was able to make one new post in Q & A and W & F but was unable to Reply or Edit, so I thought I'd try another new one here,
Here's what I tried to post:
According to the Detroit Free Press, Wayne State University "unveiled its annual list of the top 10 most useful--and underused--words in the English language":
• Buncombe: Rubbish; nonsense; empty or misleading talk.
• Cerulean: The blue of the sky.
• Chelonian: Like a turtle.
• Dragoon: To compel by coercion; to force someone to do something they'd rather not.
• Fantods: Extreme anxiety, distress, nervousness or irritability.
• Mawkish: Excessively sentimental; sappy; hopelessly trite.
• Natter: To talk aimlessly, often at great length; rarely, it means simply to converse.
• Persiflage: Banter; frivolous talk.
• Troglodyte: Literally, a cave-dweller. More frequently a backward, mentally sluggish person.
• Winkle: To pry out or extract something; from the process of removing the snail from an edible periwinkle.
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#209037 - 01/15/13 06:55 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Tromboniator]
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Registered: 11/13/11
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Loc: Lancaster, UK
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I CAN'T read jackie's post by using "quote" - it was the first thing I tried because it has worked in the past.
Edit
but I have been able to edit this one!
Curioser and curioser. (said Alice, wonderingly)
Edited by Rhubarb Commando (01/15/13 06:56 AM)
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#209041 - 01/15/13 11:44 AM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/24/02
Posts: 7185
Loc: Vermont
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We should remember that Jackie has powers here that the rest of us don't; she's a Moderator. There may be some issue which only affects her, or perhaps, as Tromb suggests, there might be a problem with the forum software.
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#209055 - 01/15/13 12:30 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Registered: 06/24/02
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Yay!! Back from Mutedom!!
and here I thought perhaps you were staging a Mutiny....
;¬ )
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#209056 - 01/15/13 12:34 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Registered: 06/23/08
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YES!
I received your last two posts above, back from "mutedom".
As to the words.
I love "cerulean", and use the word whenever it fits.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (01/15/13 12:36 PM)
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#209057 - 01/15/13 12:38 PM
Re: Trying yet again
[Re: Jackie]
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Registered: 06/24/02
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> Buncombe I've always seen this as Bunkum. Buncombe looks so English... 
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