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#105753 06/17/03 12:50 PM
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walked like a duck

That's Milliard Fillmore.


#105754 06/17/03 01:44 PM
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i thought it was the fore-court to a hat shop!


#105755 06/17/03 02:23 PM
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It could be a thronging place.


#105756 06/17/03 05:55 PM
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it's all so thoroughly modern....



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> English already had a perfectly good word for what US hegemony


I rest my case. Almost every one of those mocking this fine word, in the posts that followed its introduction to the thread, is a USn. Even tsuwm's post ignores the fact that English also had a billion, before American perverted its meaning and used it to erase the milliard. Nuff said.


#105758 06/17/03 09:49 PM
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Here, have a harrumph® on me, dear.


#105759 06/17/03 10:31 PM
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>Here, have a harrumph® on me, dear.

No, no, not at all. Communicating by computer is all about pushing buttons, and my use of that delightful word hegemony certainly seems to have pushed just about everybody's. wyrd-sisters-e


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>Even tsuwm's post ignores the fact that English also had a billion, before American perverted its meaning and used it to erase the milliard. Nuff said.

yes, my post not only ignored that fact, but had the temerity to attempt to explain the logic of the perversion through [shudder] the use of irony.


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>yes, my post not only ignored that fact, but had the temerity to attempt to explain the logic of the perversion through [shudder] the use of irony.

Yes, I know. That's why your post was such a disappointment to me. Everybody else took the bait, you simply resorted to rational reasoning. Shame on you.


#105762 06/18/03 12:28 AM
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The word is of French origin. The USn usage corresponds to the French usage. I rest our case.


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