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Re: Insults #44106 10/31/2001 11:21 AM
Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia paulb addict
paulb addict Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	Just back from screening a 1929 silent film (Douglas Fairbanks in "The iron mask") which included the following intertitle: "You dolt! You bungler! You marplot! � " I hadn't heard the word "marplot" before -- it means exactly what it says: "A person who spoils a plot or hinders the success of any undertaking." [18th century English -- SOED] I assume it was the English translation of a similar French word (in Dumas's novel), but was it in use in 1929?

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
Insults	paulb	10/09/2001 11:30 AM
Re: Insults	Jackie	10/09/2001 2:57 PM
Re: Insults	Faldage	10/10/2001 2:22 PM
Re: Insults	belMarduk	10/10/2001 9:35 PM
Re: Insults	Capital Kiwi	10/10/2001 9:48 PM
Re: Insults	consuelo	10/10/2001 1:39 AM
Re: Insults	Bobyoungbalt	10/11/2001 1:42 AM
Re: Insults	consuelo	10/11/2001 3:16 AM
just to be precise :vaffanculo	emanuela	10/12/2001 5:25 PM
Re: just to be precise :vaffanculo	of troy	10/12/2001 6:29 PM
NY Italian	Bobyoungbalt	10/12/2001 6:39 PM
meretricious	TEd Remington	10/12/2001 7:21 PM
g in vaffanculo	emanuela	10/13/2001 5:44 AM
Re: categories of insults	Keiva	10/14/2001 11:57 PM
Re: categories of insults	Bingley	10/15/2001 7:01 AM
Re: categories of insults	jmh	11/01/2001 7:57 AM
Re: categories of insults	Capital Kiwi	11/01/2001 12:29 PM
Re: Insults	Yoda	10/12/2001 9:21 AM
Post deleted by Wordwind	Wordwind	10/12/2001 10:57 PM
Re: Insults	Jackie	10/13/2001 3:08 AM
Re: Insults	paulb	10/31/2001 11:21 AM
Re: Marplot	Bobyoungbalt	11/01/2001 3:45 AM

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