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Excellent, blitherer!
succinct! I quote Rhubarb's Commando's wise words. I didn't yet try any rambling of my own.
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Trying to write a phat phrase, making goo-goo eyes at the words, and giving props to the slang theme, and trying to glom on to it, makes for a pretty shambolic sentence!
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Trying to write a phat phrase, making goo-goo eyes at the words, and giving props to the slang theme, and trying to glom on to it, makes for a pretty shambolic sentence! Phat!
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I'll give you best on this one, Blitherer!
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(Too bad he left out " grok" !)
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Perfect again and now I tried some rambling. Children's book version.
Phat Cat made goo-goo eyes at Mouse who feigned giving him props but had no desire to glom on to his staring and made a wild shambolic escape.
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Washington is full of shambolic goo-goos, but I give them all props for glomming the phat ideas of the past century.
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Kudos to those making a sentence this week. With so many slang words it couldn't have been easy.
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Washington is full of shambolic goo-goos, but I give them all props for glomming the phat ideas of the past century.
Would it be called nitpicking if I put to your's attention the fact that you added an s and a ming to the given words? I mean, how strict do we stay to the phat ideas of the past week's words? (5 ....eighteen letter words for one sentence? )
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Would it be called nitpicking if I put to your's attention the fact that you added an s and a ming to the given words?
This is a serious question when we seek to face the issue of, say, the number of words for snow in a given Second People's language.
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Would it be called nitpicking if I put to your's attention the fact that you added an s and a ming to the given words? I mean, how strict do we stay to the phat ideas of the past week's words?
Not sure if this is nit-picking or not, Bran. I must say the same question had occurred to me and I havered over whether to post on it or not. In the end, I decided against but I'm very glad you've raised it!
Personally, being something of a purist, I fell we should take the words of the week as they appear, without alteration: but I can see arguments in favour of using them as roots from which one can grow creative plants!
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This is a serious question when we seek to face the issue of, say, the number of words for snow in a given Second People's language. Just would like to know if it is this or "maybe this but on the other hand maybe that". A good oldfashioned clear choice. It's not about the importance of the issue.
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As this isn't a contest, but an unscored game, I can't see what difference it makes, but ...
He's a shambolic goo-goo, but I give him props for his willingness to glom the phat ideas of the past century.
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It's an unscored game but this is just more "elegant" ?
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On reaching the preantepenultimate chapter, the author subjects us to a harsh gedankenexperiment, asking us to leave our armchairs for a journey to a dystopian future in which a harsh reduction ad absurdum of the previous 3,000 pages ensues, stripping the story of all its former ambiguity and plurisignification, and we learn that the princesse lointaine had died centuries ago -- such are the labored plot manipulations of this lamentable genre of fiction!
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I'm so glad no one will ask me to quote this one in front of an audience. 
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Here is the revision (in which the word "harsh" is used but once):
On reaching the preantepenultimate chapter, the author subjects us to an abrupt gedankenexperiment, asking us to leave our armchairs for a journey to a dystopian future in which a harsh reductio ad absurdum of the previous 3,000 pages ensues, stripping the story of all its former ambiguity and plurisignification, and we learn that the princesse lointaine had died centuries ago -- such are the labored plot manipulations of this lamentable genre of fiction!
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Ouch! Just realized I used the word "harsh" twice - guess I'll post an emended version.
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Haha, I noticed that! but I did not want to nitpick twice in a week.
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The gedankexperiment in the preantenultimate chapter is reductio absurdum. "Plurisignification functions", in its understandable form, only serves as a princesse lointaine; a goal unattainable.
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I can't even give this one a try but ad a phrase to congratulate Anu on his passed 18th AWAD - birthday week.
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To celebrate this week's theme of words having plurisignification, here are two sentences:
The doxy, now enceinte, shouted a sarcastic bravo at the cant and vituperation hurled upon her by the pug nosed cleric.
One doxy after another was debated within the enceinte; and a sinister bravo negotiated the cant surrounding the castle's pug mill.
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 many possibilities then and good frases. Not sure if I can find time to bake one.
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Could not resist.
"Please, dont give me that cant" said the doxy, while her pug set his teeth firmly into the bravo 's left leg, " being enceinte is not such a big deal".
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If we can subsume our ability to discomfit our adversaries into a general design of malice against them, we need not begrudge them their minor victories, while we avulse from them their very decency and machinate for their downfall.
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This exterted some powerful energy as I could not just read it, I had to study it. I do not begrudge you your ability to get a good phrase out of these impossible words.
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Ouch! Just realized I used the word "harsh" twice - guess I'll post an emended version. Dont be so 'harsh' on yourself, blither.....you are very good on this thead. (I'll have a go at sentence tomorrow my time).
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After our waiter cried alley-oop and uncovered the costly kickshaw, he returned to the kitchen toot sweet to parry the demands of the inquisitive sous-chefs, and next raised a mayday over the grease fire that was consuming our entrées.
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I really like this one, blitherer!
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Yes, it's good fun this one but gee, I hadn't even noticed the week is over wordwise. Yes, good going. Tsjoo! Time flies!
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You are too kind ... Many thanks!
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I'm hoping this week's nautical theme won't leave me feeling seasick!
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Maybe you could stabilize by contributing to some other thread?
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EEP! Branny, I missed your birthday, at least in your time zone.
Happy belated, Dear, and I hope you had a really great day.
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Yeep! Thanks Jackie. We celebrated last Sunday as we all work on Wednesday. Still yesterday was a pleasant and turbulant day with whipped cream eclairs for my students and a lovely out-dinner with son and grandson. All in all just one day older than the day before. 
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Yes, happy belated birthday to you too.
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Thanks, though does ending up in this thread mean Jackie supposes I celebrate all week? Hi, Jackie!
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