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That was clever wsieber, how did you make the link appear in a separate minimised screen? Or is it just a blip on my computer?
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>...a separate minimised screen? Or is it just a blip on my computer?
must be the DTs from your former(?) addiction.
DTs?
Duplicated Threads?
Damnable Trends?
Dipsomaniacal Tippling??
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That was clever Hi Jo, That's an undeserved compliment, for once  . On my computer, all the links quoted in AWAD appear in separate Windows, when clicked...
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I think basically is a meaningless wordA classic indeed! And one which I'm very guilty of overusing in speech. But then everything went downhill from the first time I heard my voice on tape. Let alone when video cameras became commonplace. 
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In reply to:
Nothing Styx to you like a bad rep...
Except plaster of Paris, maybe?
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These slings and arrows (all well aimed - way below the belt, and the thigh, and the knee, and the shin...) have left me oedipus.
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What'djuh cast a stone for, anyway?
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If you've read the thread in Info and Announcements in which I proudly proclaim my philistinism, then perhaps the stone-throwing should be reversed...
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I just finished reading Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein certainly believes in the use of meaningless words. I can't count the number of times that dialogue began with "Uh" or included words such as "huh?" or "eh?"
In the same book we are introduced to a word that has more meaning than most. Grok is a beautiful and extremely useful word. We should have included it in our discussion about words for knowledge (or was it there and I have forgotten?). I'd heard people use grok before, but I didn't grok grok fully until I read the book.
A more personal meaningless word that I find myself using is Neh. I can (and do) say neh and express anything from extreme pleasure to utter bafflement to acute dislike simply by changing my inflection, but the word itself is meaningless.
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The problem with a word like "grok" is that it is so tied to one novel, and the moment in culture when it was read, that its modern uses seems dated -- already. To say "grok" is to sew psychedlic daisies on one's blue jeans, to wear a roach clip in one's hair, to flip the peace sign and to listen to Jefferson Airplane. Peace and love, baby.
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