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Given that you have penned 28 (!) of the 53 previous posts in this thread
Sew true, dear Keiva. And the dreaded thread-hold loometh ever closer. I am not a "gentlemen", dear Keiva, which seams to be your point, but I will surely try to act like one. Your example is, as always, instructive.
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Depends on whether you count number of posts, word count in posts or content.I am content to rest on my content, Faldage, but I don't expect others to be content with that. And that is surely their right ... if not their peerogative. 
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Please, more rec and less crimination.
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mayhap I could be the curt jester or word fool -- but I presume too much.You do not presume too much, tsuwm. In fact, it would be seamly. But this one poor thread, peer-reviewed so poorly, is more than enough appearage for me. Alas, Chatalot does not hold any Allure for me. Still, I may peer in from time to time in prospect of seeing you make a jest of yourself.
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I would hereby like to create the Best Exercise in Pointlessness AWArD and nominate this thread for it.
I second your nomination, AnnaStrophic. Therefore, it would seem that there is very little point in either one of us returning. Alas, I do not have the good judgment to know any better. Nor, would it seem, do I know my betters.
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Mes talents ont leur bornes.
Your talents are more Sorbonne than leurborne, wwh. I know something about French accents, if not about the peers de la pays. May there be paix amongst the Poohs, wwh, as well as amongst their minions. Speaking for myself, I would much rather be a Pooh-Paix than a Pooh-Bah ... but it seems my thread will run out long before I get a chance to prove it. Nonetheless, if there is to be a pox on the paix, then I am apox-static.
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Dear plutarch: I have been expecting someone who knows more French than I do to tell me that "leur" should be "leurs". I don't know how to check that.And I have not the energy to check lipograms, which at first I thought were greasygrams written with fat. Or maybe short poems of Li Po. Alphatists, where are you? Down in the caverns measureless to man?
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I have not the energy to check lipograms, which at first I thought were greasygrams written with fat.
You mean they're not! BTW I am not the French scholar you take me to be. I studied French for 2 or 3 years in high school but most of what I learned has faded thru disuse. Alas. Mes talents ont leur bornes. Let's see. Freely translated, I assume it means "My talents are my burdens." Would that be correct? At least you don't hide your light under a bushel, wwh ... wwhich is probably why your talents are your burdens, n'est-ce pas?
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Dear plutarch: I could hide my light under a thimble. My modesty is not a pose but a painful necessity.I have a lot to be modest about. We do have a couple people who speak French, but they are not with us as often as I wish they were. Perhaps they may stop lurking if I let the mistranslation stand. I have been trying to find a way to make a post about salt, which is an extremely interesting but badly neglected topic. I have a URL about it, which is quite long, but has a lot of surprising facts.But no interesting words, alas. http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~GEL115/salt.html
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Alas. Mes talents ont leur bornes. Let's see. Freely translated, I assume it means "My talents are my burdens." ...Plutarch
Plu, are you joshing here? Isn't the plural possessive for my consistently mes? Leurs would be their plural possessive, I think, if my fading memory of French 2 has any glimmer of light...
wwh: I have a great salt word just for you: haloid, if you don't already have that one. Mrs. Byrne listed it along with saxify, meaning to turn to stone. I wonder whether there's any sense in "Saxified into a haloid pillar" would be understood as a biblical reference? It really sounds more like a drunk, doesn't it?
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