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I remember you, lusy, and am glad you're back!!  (Don't bother with the signature... they get real old after a while...  )
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2002 was it? Welcome back to the mad house, Lusy.
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Is it? I thought it was more like embellishment. Could have gone with 'blatherholic' but the hypocrisy would outweigh the ridicule.
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What is ambiguous about PIN? As if it could be a code to pop balloons with? Whatever bank invented that should have foreseen the babble-fest it prompted and opted instead for PID. 
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stands for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
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What is ambiguous about PIN? As if it could be a code to pop balloons with? Whatever bank invented that should have foreseen the babble-fest it prompted and opted instead for PID.
Depends on the context. At the gas pump if I use my debit card it asks me to enter my PIN. If I loan the card to the lovely AnnaS and she asks me for my PIN number I don't have to ask her if she means an ink pin or a safety pin.
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Depends on the context. At the gas pump if I use my debit card it asks me to enter my PIN. If I loan the card to the lovely AnnaS and she asks me for my PIN number I don't have to ask her if she means an ink pin or a safety pin.
Is that suggesting that babbling "Personal Identification Number number" is needed to distinguish an acronym from a real item it sounds like? Do some dolts say "Surface to Air Missile missile" so no listeners think they are talking about a guy named Sam? I really think the context should be enough to understand the distinctions [and for credibility, last time I checked, 'loan' was a noun].
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If you want to be a loan shark, you’d better check your dentures! It’s commonly a noun but is also a well-established intransitive verb: USAGE NOTE: The verb loan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect. The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originated from a provincial deference to British critics, who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism. Loan is, however, used to describe only physical transactions, as of money or goods; for figurative transactions, lend is correct: Distance lends enchantment. The allusions lend the work a classical tone. C. American Heritage
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just a polite question, Mr. 11:
do you enjoy language?
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"another knee-jerk term invented without logic" (04/24/06 07:46 AM)
"buffoon" (04/27/06 09:19 AM)
"fatuous" (04/28/06 06:32 AM)
"enamored of their own voices" (04/28/06 06:32 AM)
"acronym babblers" (04/28/06 06:32 AM)
"cynical misanthropic diatribe" (04/28/06 06:54 AM)
"hypocrisy would outweigh the ridicule" (05/02/06 06:15 AM)
"dolts" (05/03/06 08:09 AM)
Perhaps the medications don't kick-in until after noon.
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