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#99250
03/23/2003 10:09 PM
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hadn't seen this before, but msnbc is using this word(?) as a headline:
World Reax
it's a story about world reaction to the US invasion of Iraq.
pretty sorry excuse for a word if you ask me...
formerly known as etaoin...
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#99251
03/23/2003 11:18 PM
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World Reax ... it's a story about world reaction to the US invasion of Iraq ... pretty sorry excuse for a word if you ask me...
Agreed, etaoin. Abbreviation to the point of absurdity [or self-parody].
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#99252
03/23/2003 11:45 PM
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I think that usage really reax... Phew!
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#99253
03/24/2003 10:05 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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A bit like the Sun's headline "Aw, fook" (from memory).
- Pfranz
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#99254
03/25/2003 2:19 AM
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"Aw, fook"
Not at all like "Aw, fook", Pfranz
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#99255
03/25/2003 2:23 AM
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"Aw, fook"
Not at all like "Aw, fook", Pfranz.
"Aw, fook" is scholastic next to "reax".
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#99256
03/25/2003 9:59 AM
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I think reax is comical. And even sickly comical. And even darkly sickly comical.
The word ax embedded in the reaction is the dark part.
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#99257
03/25/2003 1:09 PM
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I s'pose it's like putting pix for pictures. But I agree, WW, ax makes it dark. I can't imagine seeing, for ex., "Let's give her a surprise party and see how she reax".
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#99258
03/25/2003 1:09 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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#99259
03/25/2003 2:13 PM
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#99260
03/25/2003 2:30 PM
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reax sux. 
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#99261
03/25/2003 3:14 PM
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When a woodchopper breaks a blade he has to reax.
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#99262
03/25/2003 3:37 PM
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"When a woodchopper breaks a blade he has to reax."
Dear WO'N: Ases could take a lot of punishment, and I never knew of axe head being destroyed. But they dulled rapidly, and until comparatively recently could be sharpened only on a foot powered grindstone which might take a large part of an hour, be very tiring. So much so that "keeping your nose to the grindstone" was and still is a cliché for hard work.
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