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#123729 02/25/04 02:51 PM
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is that necrophilia?

Not all violations are out of love, but in this case, perhaps.


#123730 02/25/04 02:53 PM
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orientationize

I also propose orientify, or should that be ortify oneself?


#123731 02/25/04 05:23 PM
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<<not all violations are out of love>>

Er, wha?


#123732 02/26/04 08:58 AM
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Then there's the process of orientating - orientationalise!

And, come to think of it, the noun describing the outcome of the process - orientationalisation

Then there's the belief system that will grow up out of all of this - orientationalisationism

And the study of implementation of the new religious fad - orientationalistics!


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Not forgetting those who actively oppose the whole concept, the antiorientationalisationists and their supporters the proantiorientationalisationists.

Those who simply rubbish the belief system are, of course, the dissorientationalisationists.


#123734 02/26/04 12:36 PM
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[head-spinning e]


#123735 02/26/04 01:08 PM
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I think I hurt something when I occidentally fell over laughing...



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#123736 02/26/04 01:17 PM
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[head-spinning e]
Indeed, we can only hope ex oriente lux



#123737 02/26/04 01:59 PM
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Er, wha?

Necrophilia, literally 'love of corpses', from the Greek. I was talking about violating grammar, which is a different thing altogether from violating corpses.


#123738 02/26/04 05:47 PM
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Oh, I dunno. We seem to deal to Latin pretty much. And it's dead, even though it bloody well won't finally lie down!

Come to think of it, does anyone have a wooden stake or a box of silver bullets with "Et tu awadtalke" engraved on them? [Note that I'm assuming that one Awadtalker in Latin (stealing the whole word, not its parts) is sec. dec. masc., or awadtalkus -i m]


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