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perfect, tsuwm. and PS, I too used to hate the emoticons, but got bored with continuous misunderstandings of 'tone', so...
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> ...continue to read these posts objectively.....not seditiously
On behalf of the great tsuwm and in the tradition of his "YART", could I propose another acronym cum maxim - RPONS....
Read Posts Objectively Not Seditiously
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brillig--that's my beat! I'm OK as long as we can still discuss words.
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Read Posts Objectively Not SeditiouslyWell done, stales! But that will be easy, because we could not possibly read "seditiously". "Sedition" means "inciting rebellion against the authority of a state" -- and none among us would speak with such authority, of course. Perhaps, if tsuwm happened to mean "sedulously", stales' acronym would be preserved. http://www.bartleby.com/61/24/S0212400.html
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as I pointed out to someone who shall not be named (wsnbn) via PM, I used seditious in a broad figurative sense of 'given to causing tumult'; to wit: 1. Of a person or body of persons: Given to or guilty of sedition; in early use, ‘factious with tumult, turbulent’ (Johnson); now chiefly, engaged in promoting disaffection or inciting to revolt against constituted authority. 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden, Thirdly, he is verie seditious and mutinous in conversation, picking quarrells with everie man that will not magnifie and applaud him.
I stand by this after much soul-searching.
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Boy, you guys are good! Understanding each other, with a meaning so unusual that it isn't in bartleby or webster! I am impressed! Good to have it specified so that everyone else understands too.
As Max's home page says, "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
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Good to have it specified so that everyone else understands too.
I'm glad they cleared it up. Frankly I hadn't a clue using my trusty, never dusty, Webster's or the on-line Bartleby's that I have come to love.
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