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#49160 12/01/01 06:30 AM
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I don't wish to sound rude...

...but what in conflation are you guys talking about!!?



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I use conflate when I want to leave people wondering exactly what I mean. And I use it properly, i.e. in the sense of melding things together. No one has EVER asked me what I mean ...



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#49162 12/01/01 11:55 AM
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And hello to you, too, Keiva! Your verse bears repeating...

Teresa says, inebriety/sobriety/society/propriety ... variety!

Good to say, "Hiya,T! There's no impiety
in the contrariety carpals display.
Still, I've anxiety.
Each notariety
Has reached satiety surely, I pray?


...there's a glistening bit of Keiviety!

This is just a bit of whimsy: Why not read Dee-it-ee, Dye-it-ee?

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bill, remember this <ahem> discussion? here is a perfect use of the word upon which I stumbled whilst reading during my lunch today:

I deplore the current penchant for literary confession, spawned by our culture's conflation of two radically different concepts: celebrity and stature. - S. J. Gould, Rocks of Ages

(fused and confused :)

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Celebrity = fools faces are often seen in public places. Stature = spectacular priapism.


#49165 04/11/02 09:46 PM
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2 : to combine (as two readings of a text) into a composite whole
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sorry, but isn't that gin and tonic??
Two elements (no, not in the chemical sense) combined into a perfect, composite whole!


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