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They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them! All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle.
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Yes, dear. [/nod and smile]
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Darn quarky particles. I wonder what would be the proudest verb.
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I wonder what would be the proudest verb.
Well, April is the cruelest verb.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them! All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle. does nouning them have the same effect?
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does nouning them have the same effect? not if they're denounced.
formerly known as etaoin...
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eta, come here a minute...I have something for you.
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does nouning them have the same effect?
That's even better. The nouned verb is so ashamed by what it perceives as a demotion tantamount to being fired that it will do anything you ask of it.
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To this [interesting] thread I say, "Yea verbally!" and "Noun other"
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They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them! All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle. wouldn't wrestle be the more standard way of doing this?
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wouldn't wrestle be the more standard way of doing this?
I spose, if you consider rassling verbs a standard procedure.
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a standard procedure
"Same procedure as last year?"
"Same procedure as every year."
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Standard until the standards change.
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"Same procedure as every year."
Try to take over the world?
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Try to take over the world?( Link, link, link, and link.)
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Danke vielmals. It was surprisingly easy to understand. My retention of the language must have been better than I expected.
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