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What up? Everyone on vacation?

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Sundays are generally slow around here.

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Yeahbut, it has been rather slow; note tsuwm's unearthings.

For us Merkins, it's summer's last hurrah, marked by Labor Day (today). I suspect many are vacationing or just spending as much time as they can outdoors having real lives.

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Yep.

*rocks in rocking chair*

I reckon so.

*rocks*

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What, no whittling?

I almost misspelled whittling as "witling". It's a word though: "a person who considers themselves to be witty." (Warning! Archaic and chiefly derogatory!)

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You know know what Ah miss? Ah miss that sweet, soft singing. That's what Ah miss.

*rocks*

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Ah miss that sweet, soft singing Quite so ! I mainly listen to old records these days..

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Ok, Alex; I'll start singing louder.

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The primary reason that I have been away is that I have been in a mental hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown. I had been becoming increasingly agitated over a period of months, which my doctors attributed to chronic exposure to the misuse of literally. I reached my wits' end when I read in the local paper "...rather then [sic] give up, he literally set himself on fire in order to complete the task." My wife found me curled up in a ball in the corner, clutching a copy of Strunk & White. I was admitted and treated with liberal doses of P.G. Wodehouse Jane Austen, and since then I have recovered enough that I even survived the assault of de-ba'athification today with but a small jolt.

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really?


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Tried to read it to find de-ba'athification but found myself getting dizzy and having difficulty focussing my eyes past the sports metaphor.

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Originally Posted By: etaoin
really?


literally

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really?


literally




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If one misuses the word literally, could he said to be illiteral?

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Originally Posted By: Alex Williams
If one misuses the word literally, could he said to be illiteral?


well, one would certainly be a litterer.

and I hope that we say that uniliterally.


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Quote:
The primary reason that I have been away is that I have been in a mental hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown. I had been becoming increasingly agitated over a period of months, which my doctors attributed to chronic exposure to the misuse of literally. I reached my wits' end when I read in the local paper "...rather then [sic] give up, he literally set himself on fire in order to complete the task." My wife found me curled up in a ball in the corner, clutching a copy of Strunk & White. I was admitted and treated with liberal doses of P.G. Wodehouse Jane Austen, and since then I have recovered enough that I even survived the assault of de-ba'athification today with but a small jolt.


Believe it or not, you had me right up to "misuse of literally." Literally.

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Hydra: I'm still under the impression that things have slowed down, and I am wondering, without casting aspersions of any kind, whether lengthy participation in a blog or forum palls on the average contributor (me)

I this conncetion I hve noted that most institutions undergo a cycle of birth, life, and death. Why don't you post a new thread to that effect and see what happens


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Well some of us literally have been away. One of us was wandering around Helsinki about this time. Probably Finnished with one phrase book if anyone wants it.


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