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Avyy #182749 02/20/09 02:44 AM
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Language Log has a post about what seems to be the sad result of this obsession with keeping language static. Mr Halpern sounds like a scary angry man.

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Hi Avyy
I couldn't get in to read it either. But then I ask myself, do I want to spend time with scary angry people? hmmm.

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Hi back Zed,
I have been here before and I know that not all of them are scary and angry; or maybe, not all of them are scary and angry at the same time. Besides, if and when the words begin to fly, I'll duck.

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Originally Posted By: Zed
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I couldn't get in to read it either. But then I ask myself, do I want to spend time with scary angry people? hmmm.

Huh? Is this the freeratio site you couldn't get into? As far as I know, the scary, angry Mark Halpern doesn't have anything to do with freeratio (formerly Internet Infidels).

Or did I miss something again (not an unlikely possibility).

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Originally Posted By: Faldage
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Hi Avyy
I couldn't get in to read it either. But then I ask myself, do I want to spend time with scary angry people? hmmm.

Huh? Is this the freeratio site you couldn't get into? As far as I know, the scary, angry Mark Halpern doesn't have anything to do with freeratio (formerly Internet Infidels).

Or did I miss something again (not an unlikely possibility).


You did not misunderstand me. The Language Log post about Halpern's rant seemed relevant to the similar theme of some posts in this thread. I could not make any sense of dalehileman's post at the other site or get the point of it which for me is how his posts here leave me too.

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Originally Posted By: dalehileman
Originally Posted By: Faldage
I'm sorry that decimate doesn't mean 'kill one in ten' any more

**By coincidence Fal that's also one of my pet peeves just as "venue" has come to mean any location, activity, or even causal factor. Thus where "decimated venue" might formerly have meant a reduction by ten percent in the number of jurisdictions where a trial could be held, it might now mean the slaughter in a Far-Eastern country of a wedding party by a stray Allied bomb

,,,,,,or that candidate doesn't mean 'someone dressed all in white' or miniature doesn't mean 'painted red', but, as the Red Queen said, "You've got to run as fast as you can to stay in one place."


****Fal forgive an old fart on the threshold of senility of not Alzheimer's but you will have to explain the latter two perhaps using examples, though in my own defense when I relayed them to Laverne who is much smarter than I she didn't understand either


Candidate was handled quite nicely by tsuwm. Miniature derives, ultimately, from the Latin miniare, 'to color red'.

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Originally Posted By: latishya
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[quote=Zed]Hi Avyy
I couldn't get in to read it either...........Or did I miss something again (not an unlikely possibility).
............I could not make any sense of dalehileman's post at the other site or get the point of it which for me is how his posts here leave me too.


Hi lat: I sometimes get that reaction which always puzzles me. The frdb post was a dig at the massive technological and software incompetence of Dish Network and its indifference to its subscribers but facetiously cloaked in semantic terms so a to impart an inferential choice of implied allusions in order to elicit a diversity of rejoinders and incidentally constituting a rationale for propagating a media-centered grievance in a language-oriented venue, thereby increasing the probability of interception by the sympathetic industrial counterpart with ties to a pertinent intermediary

The foregoing tactic based on a proven observation that with given requirement or question your message is only six steps of exchange from reaching its intended goal; your probability of success, as with a Letter to the Editor in the Fourth Estate, increasing in direct proportion to the extent of its dissemination; a phenom worthy of a separate thread

As for other posts in WS if you would identify them with links I wold be most happy to discuss their meaning, if extant, or anything else of interest, being yours at dalehileman@me.com and apparently don't care who knows it

Thank you again lat and look Fwd to hearing from you



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Originally Posted By: dalehileman

...implied allusions in order to elicit a diversity of rejoinders and incidentally constituting a rationale for propagating a media-centered grievance in a language-oriented venue, thereby increasing the probability of interception by the sympathetic industrial counterpart with ties to a pertinent intermediary


OooooF ! laugh laugh laugh

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Welcome Avyy you seem to possess a sense of humor and would discuss anything with you being dalehileman@me.com


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Miniature derives, ultimately, from the Latin miniare, 'to color red'.


This came up at Language Hat.Some supported the above statement, others disagreed.

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