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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Living Dangerously #143969 06/16/05 04:40 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Dear Max ~ I am not taking the lovely and charming and fluent AnnaStrophic on, with my suggestion. She said that incentivar is a perfectly legitimate Portuguese verb and I agree with her. I was just suggesting that the form with which I am more familiar is the one I offered. You think I'm gonna get killed for this? Not me. She is too fine and refined a lady. With warmest regards, O Boyo Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Living Dangerously #143970 06/16/05 05:06 AM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui In reply to: You think I'm gonna get killed for this? Not me. She is too fine and refined a lady. No argument there. My comment was out of envious admiration. Your post filled my head with images of parents' mothers, eggs, and the oral extraction of material therefrom, and left me in awe of your courage. noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Does the scent of 'incent' incense you? #143971 06/16/05 05:45 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta I must admit I had to take a deep breath before using operationalisation in a translation the other day. Not only does this monstrosity exist in English, but it has been adapted into Indonesian as operasionalisasi. I cannot for the life of me see that it fills a long-felt need in either language. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Does the scent of 'incent' incense you? #143972 06/16/05 03:54 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Today's Dilbert comic strip has Dogbert the consultant saying: Incentivize the resources to grow their bandwidth to your end-state vision. Don't open the kimono until you ping the change agent for a brain dump and drill down to your core competencies. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Does the scent of 'incent' incense you? #143973 06/16/05 11:44 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... And if you have a penny in your pocket are you incent? Or maybe that's your incent? Because if you didn't have that penny you'd be outcent. And if you were outcent you'd be sent out because you had no money See? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Does the scent of 'incent' incense you? #143974 06/17/05 12:11 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ V Vernon Compton enthusiast Vernon Compton enthusiast V Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 273 NZ >no money See? Wow! I had heard that the Vatican was a bit strapped for cash, but I didn't know it was actually bankrupt. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts229,929 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 779 guests, and 4 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 18 LukeJavan8 4 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,918 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,949 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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