#11872
12/03/2000 6:31 AM
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"octuplicate" -- I know what it means but is it a word?
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#11873
12/03/2000 6:54 AM
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Not according to m-w.com, dictionary.com, or onelook.com. However, my copy of Chambers does list it: "eightfold: multiplied by eight."
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#11874
12/03/2000 11:46 AM
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MQ wrote, Not according to m-w.com, dictionary.com, or onelook.com. However, my copy of Chambers does list it: "eightfold: multiplied by eight."
So...by derivation we have:
Unoplicate
Duoplicate
Trioplicate
Quatroplicate
and so on, to my favourite,
hexadecimaloplicate.
Clear as a bell really.
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#11875
12/03/2000 4:52 PM
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somewhat oddly, OED skips from septemplicate (seven-fold) to centuplicate (ten-fold). 
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#11876
12/03/2000 6:33 PM
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OED skips from septemplicate (seven-fold) to centuplicate (ten-fold).Why "centuplicate" for tenfold? Why not "decuplicate"? Talk about a red-herring word - the unashamedly semi-literate among us would (did) leap to the contusion that centuplicate means one-hundred-fold. 
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#11877
12/03/2000 7:52 PM
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oops, got ahead of myself... ten-fold is decemplicate. then, of course, there is complicate.
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#11878
12/03/2000 9:21 PM
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oops, got ahead of myself... ten-fold is decemplicate. then, of course, there is complicate.
Continuing down this whimsical path, I wonder if one could refer to cloning oneself as implicating?
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#11879
12/03/2000 10:53 PM
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Continuing down this whimsical path, I wonder if one could refer to cloning oneself as implicating?
...and to that fishes-and-loaves thing as supplicating?
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#11880
12/04/2000 6:58 AM
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Continuing down this whimsical path, I wonder if one could refer to cloning oneself as implicating?
Hmmm. Valid as long as you spell it i'mplicating. Although not as dangerous as leaving the "'" out of Anu's ...
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#11881
12/04/2000 7:02 AM
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In reply to:
not as dangerous as leaving the "'" out of Anu's ...
Which just goes to prove that, when speaking of Anu, "there can be only one."
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#11882
12/04/2000 7:05 AM
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Which just goes to prove that, when speaking of Anu, "there can be only one."
... and let us give thanks for his coming amongst us. Now, where have I heard that before?
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#11883
12/05/2000 12:45 AM
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This was the sign on a Bar in one of the small towns in India
"Anu's Bar and Restaurant"
(Entrance in the backside)
Sorry Jackie.
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#11884
12/05/2000 9:27 AM
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(Entrance in the backside)
Avy
You must not do this to me in the middle of my working morning. I was overwhelmed with choked laughter, coughing and spluttering. Poor Anu, who from all I can tell is a happilly married man - that you should be make such insinuations about him (or is this a Brit thing, where 'back passage' takes on all sorts of Julian Clary-esque resonances?)
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#11885
12/06/2000 1:01 AM
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> is this a Brit thing where 'back passage' takes on all sorts of Julian Clary-esque resonances?
No this is an Indian thing, where the word backside is sometimes used to replace back - "put it in the backside of the car."
No insinuations. I would not dare. (Apart from my belief that if so .. so what?)
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12/06/2000 1:18 AM
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"But who may abide the day of his coming?"
(apologies to Handel and his O.T. librettist)
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#11887
12/06/2000 6:00 AM
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Entrance in the backside...
"But who may abide the day of his coming?"
Ohmigawd, Anna! You may take the throne as Queen of the
Gutter!
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#11888
12/06/2000 9:20 AM
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Entrance in the backside...
"But who may abide the day of his coming?"Ohmigawd, Anna! You may take the throne as Queen of the Gutter! Was this deliberate (oh thou Queen of the Gutter looking up at the Stars!), or are you living in Flat(thread)land, where Anna was responding to Marty (?) not to Avy, but you couldn't tell? All fun and games, anyway... cheer the sunshine warrior
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#11889
12/06/2000 12:48 PM
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are you living in Flat(thread)land, where Anna was responding to Marty (?) not to Avy, but you couldn't tell?
Yes, I stay in flat mode. This is the way I (unknowingly)
started, and this is what I'm used to. I like to see the actual posts--a bunch of headings-only just is kind of meaningless to me. I didn't realize this might cause a problem referencing. Anna's is posted right under Avy's.
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#11890
12/06/2000 1:43 PM
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Anna's is posted right under Avy's.True. Even though Anna was responding to Capital Kiwi (not Marty as I wrote formerly... smacky wristies) This is one of the reasons why I often include some quote from the post to which I am responding: it helps the flatlanders see the context.  E A Abbott
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#11891
12/06/2000 9:02 PM
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Yes, thank-you, it is very useful Shanks. Oft times it looks like a person is talking to himself with one post after an other. You have to have a good memory of what was written before.
I also prefer flat mode since some posts will refer to several different posts/headings, and, like Jackie, I like seeing everything written. It makes me feel like I am in an actual conversation.
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