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A friend brought my daughters a coprolite of some ~30K cat scat that had a lot of character, but we have misplaced it (temporarily, I hope). When they were much younger, the kids would call each other names a bit differently than other kids, "You silly coprolite! You're a coprolite!" "I'm not a coprolite! YOU'RE a coprolite." Coincidentally, I was perusing some old favorite links just a few days ago and came across http://www.coprolite.com
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jumping ahead,(to calli) a friend recently sent me this link at wiki EDIT: (because i didn't check my link.. (see below) the link now is to the right wike page..
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No shit!?
Sorry couldn't resist
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You know, FF, that's one of the best OPs I've seen in a long time...
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Thanks. That particular WOTD resonated with me, knocking a few pebbles loose in my skull and culminating in an avalanche of electrical impulses to my digits.
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A friend brought my daughters a coprolite of some ~30K cat scat Sorry, not being nit picking or pedantic, just trying to understand this sentence - is "brought" a typo or Southern idiom for "bought"? And am I right in assuming that ~30K = 30,000 years before present time?
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A friend brought my daughters a coprolite of some ~30K cat scat Sorry, not being nit picking or pedantic, just trying to understand this sentence - is "brought" a typo or Southern idiom for "bought"? And am I right in assuming that ~30K = 30,000 years before present time? The tilde means "about," and, yes, the K means 1000, I should have written 'y' after 'K'. I'm not sure whether 'brought' is a Southern idiom, though I could have accurately wrote that he "bought" the specimen for them, he afterwards brought it with him all the way back east.
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I thought (not thank/have thunk) "brought" was the "standard" past and past participle of "bring" (brought/have brought) (and brang and have brung the "Southern idiom").
While we're explaining things, why did "Of Troy" post a link to a Google Map of her home town and call it "wiki"? Is it apropos or a private message to "calli"?
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While we're explaining things, why did "Of Troy" post a link to a Google Map of her home town and call it "wiki"? Is it apropos or a private message to "calli"?
the reference to calli- is from this weeks theme; to wit, "This week we'll see five words made with the use of combining forms ortho- (straight), copro- (dung), iatro- (healer), miso- (hate), and calli- (beautiful)." but, what that's got to do with Rego Park I've no clue. - joe (.5 ast explanations) friday
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cause i didn't check my link (and messed up)
its been corrected.. (to a Calli/kalli link)
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Another of my favorites is "coprocephalic," which I did not coin, but have taken a liking to.
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There's always isopaleocopria. Pity 'tis that I didn't coin it.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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isopaleocopria. Pity 'tis that I didn't coin it. hahaha ... best word I've read this morning!
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Must be I'm stupid. The meaning doesn't just jump out at me. I understand all the elements but they don't seem to fit together in any meaningful way.
Aha! I was translating iso- as 'equal', not 'same'. Surely there's a combining form for 'same'.
Edit: D'oh! Homo-. Homopaleocopria. Course that has other problems.
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I was translating iso- as 'equal', not 'same'.
Sorry, Faldo. Mayhaps we could inject a discussion of the difference between same and equal into the philosophy thread?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I try to stay clear of philosophy.
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I try to stay clear of philosophy. Which is of course a kind of philosophy in itself. 
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I try to stay clear of philosophy. Which is of course a kind of philosophy in itself. If you say so.
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