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small pockets of resistance to change- we all have them!
Nope, not me.
I use a wallet :)
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Yes, i can understand a wallet for paper money, script, bills or plastic, do you also use a change purse? one of those fancy ones every one picks up in Florence? fine leather that folds in a star burst design or a simplier one that is a square when closed, and somewhat flat, and the opens to a cube? or a nice scots style one, made with velcro that crys in pain every time you open it?
Women commonly keep change in a purse of some sort in US, but most guys just carry change loose in their pockets..
(having said that, i know half the guys here are going to chime in, that they too, keep there change in some sort of leather contraption-- and not just the guys from the UK!)
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>do you also use a change purse? One of those fancy ones every one picks up in Florence? No, and who's every one? The only things I bought in Florence were a T-shirt and a souvenir guide to the National Archaeological Museum. 
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by prescriptive/descriptive, i am referring to the idea that dictionaries should prescribe how a words should be used, (set standards, and expect the speakers of english to keep to these standards) vs. thise who think dictionaries should describe how words are actually being used, (how english is actually being spoken, recording the shifts in usage and not presuming there is a right or wrong way) Thanks, Helen--I need reminding of those meanings from time to time. I actually think I'm kind of 100% predescriptive. 
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and I think I'm scriptdepreeved...
I was going to say that rhymes, metrically, with jiffylube, but I don't think I will.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Well, Jackie, just remember that 90% of this game is half-mental, anyway
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I wish I could get smiley's into the "Subject" line
...half of us here are prescriptives, and half here are descriptives--
-- and the other half is MAD.
...the current meaning is 90%.
No it isn't. It *clearly means nothing that specific as I've heard it used recently, but certainly "fucked up" in general.
... and may I also issue a hearty welcome to you carambola.
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...the current meaning is 90%.
Of course those of us who are *true prescrips insist that, while only 10% get killed, the other 90% are shipped off to other venues. So, if the frost decimated the orange groves in Florida…
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That sounds like a lot of digging.
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*true
Faldage's favourite joke from childhood:
Q: If I shot one bird in a line of ten on a wire, how many would be left?
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