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#107484 07/19/03 08:37 PM
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That's even worse than *preventative.

Is that because you're 'used to' *it?


#107485 07/20/03 02:40 AM
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Probably!


#107486 07/20/03 09:30 PM
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One times ate and poor Jackie's ready to leave the table!


#107487 07/20/03 09:42 PM
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Say what you will about orientate; it has always been a verb. Orient is a verbed noun.


#107488 07/21/03 07:09 PM
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it has always been a verb
Exactly. I just always thought it was a modern abomination. (still sounds annoying though)


#107489 07/21/03 07:34 PM
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a modern abomination

An early modern abomination is more like it. If memory serves it dates back to about 1645. Orient as a verb dates to about ten years earlier. Again, if memory serves.


#107490 07/21/03 08:13 PM
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re: If memory serves it dates back to about 1645. Orient as a verb dates to about ten years earlier. Again, if memory serves.

Gee you are an old coot faldage! but you wear your age well, i woodna guess'd you to be much more than 55 or 60.. but if you remember 1600's, well, hell, i am impressed!
what's the your secret to longevity? i hope you share it at lest with your lovely wife!


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longevity? i hope you share it at lest with your lovely wife!

Geez Loiuse, ain't dat gettin a bit poisonal?


#107492 07/22/03 02:22 AM
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dates back to about 1645.

so, somebody couldn't talk back then, either?



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#107493 07/22/03 09:58 AM
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Memory didn't serve. That was some other word that has two versions, one thoroughly dissed by the prescrips.




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