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PRONATED Don't take out the T, put in an N, and fly with your PTERANDON . Oh. Too late; you already did. OK, then. But PTERANDON is much nicer to continue from. So.
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I thought it was nice too, but for the moment we're on RESPOND. I know rules were meant to be broken, but let's not do so on purely esthetic grounds. Maybe we can work our way back to our flying reptile later.
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Okay, is fun. Reculer:
RESPOND----E to A
PARDONS----S to E
PADRONE----add T
PRONATED----add N
PTERANDON
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thanks, I did not know you could make so many changes in one
posting.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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(You're not really supposed to, but this was for a special event.)
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PTERANDON
How about N-->I = PREDATION ? (That could have come directly from PRONATED, come to think of it.) I don't capitalize it because it's so mundane and we ought to be able to come up with something more elegant.
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I've been looking for the flying fossil but then I found three words for it,Pterandon, Pteradon and Pteranodon Where do we go from here? Another language matter I might as well ask here is: Is mundane opposite to elegant? I always thought it meant the same as 'mondaine', which means elegantly wordly.
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I've always used "mundane" to mean not only worldly but with the suggestion of being ordinary, uninspired, common, simple, obvious. "Elegant" carries connotations of being special, high-class, somewhat out-of-the-way yet still appropriate, perceptive. Elegant can be simple too.
Select all that apply.
"Mondaine" as "elegantly world-wise" may place it among the faux-amis; in English "mundane" emphasizes the commonplace, rather than the loftiness of elegance. At least as I've used it. (Whom are you going to believe, me or some strange dictionary?)
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Just was surprised I must have misunderstood that word a good number of decades as I never looked it up. I did now. Thanks for the explanation. Let's grabs that PTERANDON elegantly by the wings. N to V >> DAVENPORT _ elegant enough?
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DAVENPORT
A --> I
PROVIDENT
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