ya know, I have purposely dumbed down my posts in the past in an effort to not come across as overly pedantic and thereby scare away potential participants. but I ain't gonna constrain mysef any longer. for instance, I am henceforth gonna strew my posts with Latin and other dead languages, just 'cuz I can.

-joe (:-pppppbt) cool

Si haec crustulos eduisses, obesus fuisses.

edit: If you had eaten those cookies, you would have been fat.

Great idea! How do I make Hebrew characters on this screen?

I have purposely dumbed down my posts in the past ...
but I ain't gonna constrain mysef any longer.

Oh my Gawd! I am now in deep trouble,and very, very afraid!

Si haec crustulos eduisses, obesus fuisses.

Haruspicem tempestatis non eges ut scias e quo parte flat ventus

YART, faldage!
I actually haven't the foggiest notion whether that's a YART -- but maybe faldage, in defending against the YART charge, will translate!

Dear tsuwm: A wonderful idea. In looking up "crustulos" I found this:

“Sedens Johannes parvus in angulo
Hornrus edit crustula Christmica;
Et dixit, ut pruna extrahebat
Pollice, ‘Quam sum ego suavis infans!’”

dear bill,
little jack horner you ain't.

-joe c. brewer

p.s. - bill, why is there usually all of that gray/grey space at the bottom of your posts?

Dear tsuwm: I don't know why gray space persists after I try to get rid of it using line delete. What other option have I?

I am henceforth gonna strew my posts with Latin and other dead languages, just 'cuz I can. --Joe Cool

Right on Worddaddy, lay the dead jive on the wordnecks, man. Dem big legged kats long due upandcomence. Special, tsuwm.

Old Saying: If you got it Honey flaunt it. This is a New World, It's OK to be a Hussy.

hus·sy (hŭz'ç, hŭs'ç)
n., pl. -sies.
A woman considered brazen or immoral.
A saucy or impudent girl.
[Alteration of Middle English houswif, housewife. See housewife.]

Which were you refering to, hmmm? I'd say hussy is in the eye of the holder.

"A saucy or impudent girl." - With readily accessible pudenda

Old Saying: If you got it Honey flaunt it. This is a New World, It's OK to be a Hussy
http://brazenhussies.coma nother promise, these are NOT porn sites.
http://www.wench.org/about/

With readily accessible pudenda

Ah, the joys of latinate polysyllabification, in lieu of the simple anglo-saxonism!
BTW, your same point could have been made by omitting the first and last words.

I accidentally stumbled on a part of Barleby I hadn't found before. Fun to browse through for explanations of old phrases: keep clicking on new phrase
http://www.bartleby.com/81/4390.html

"krotalon" is a dandy Greek word for a tiresome ranter. It means "rattle" and is xource of name of rattlesnakes, "Crotalus horridus".

Actually, dr. bill, I believe the greek word means "rattle" or "clapper" (and that Aristophanes used it metaphorically, in the sense you suggest.)

Thus, the scientific name for the "rattlesnake" is Crotalus terrificus, and the active ingredient in its venom is crotoxin.

Edit: apparently dr. bill and I were editing and writing simultaneously. On rechecking, I find that the above-cited are two different types of rattlesnakes.

What's the opposite of "dumbing down"? Whatever it is, seems like I've gotta learn how to do it to keep up around here. This will be difficult because I, like many of my fellows (cunning though we may be), are monolinguists.

repeats.... We are but simple folk. The hobbits of the South Pacific.

stales

We are but simple folk. The hobbits of the South Pacific.

I thought hobbits lived in New Zealand . . .

Now, now, you can’t scare away participants because you are overly pedantic. You can bore them maybe, confuse them perhaps, but scare, not so much. Maybe it was your bedside manner.