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They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!


All one needs to do to rassle even the proudest verb to the ground is to convert it to a phrasal verb. There's not a single verb but it can be subdued by a simple particle.


wouldn't wrestle be the more standard way of doing this?

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wouldn't wrestle be the more standard way of doing this?


I spose, if you consider rassling verbs a standard procedure.

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a standard procedure

"Same procedure as last year?"

"Same procedure as every year."


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Standard until the standards change.

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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd

"Same procedure as every year."


Try to take over the world?

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Try to take over the world?

(Link, link, link, and link.)


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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Try to take over the world?

(Link, link, link, and link.)


Danke vielmals. It was surprisingly easy to understand. My retention of the language must have been better than I expected.

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