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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 #101001 - 04/14/03 10:10 PM hogwash®   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass I've got a word that I'm anxious to use as a wwftd, but I need some good def'ns so I can run it as a wwftd quiz™. thus, this round will have some actual awards, such as they are, as I will use the def'ns that garner the most votes. PM me your def'ns for: to lant (within the next sennight) #101002 - 04/15/03 12:31 AM Re: hogwash®   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York ..there *is a __ between to and lant, yes? #101003 - 04/15/03 12:32 AM Re: hogwash®   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Jackie Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Am I undestanding correctly that, since you put the 'to', lant is a verb? As in I lant, you lant, he/she/it lants? EDIT--Dang, Anna, you beat me by a second! #101004 - 04/15/03 12:46 AM junior nitpicker   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York more like a minute... #101005 - 04/15/03 01:31 AM Re: junior nitpicker   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Jackie Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Oh, yeah, I always get that confused; danged military time! I maintain that there ain't no twenty o'clock! [stamping foot again e] #101006 - 04/15/03 01:37 AM Re: hogwash®   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass yes indeed, lant wants to be verbed. #101007 - 04/15/03 02:21 AM Re: junior nitpicker   Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 sjm old hand sjm   old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina >military time Strictly as a personal aside, I HATE this uniquely USn way of referring to what is known here as "the 24-hr clock". To one who adores the logic and simplicity of this time display system, but abhors all things military, it is a perjorative description. #101008 - 04/15/03 02:29 AM Re: junior nitpicker   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass In reply to: Strictly as a personal aside, I HATE this uniquely USn way of referring to what is known here as "the 24-hr clock". To one who adores the logic and simplicity of this time display system, but abhors all things military, it is a perjorative description. As an uber-aside, I abhor this misspelling of pejorative. the google-ometer shows: pejorative <> 72,700 perjorative <> 3810 http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/perjorative #101009 - 04/15/03 03:42 AM Re: junioR nitpickeR   Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 sjm old hand sjm   old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina >perjorative Soryr, tsuwm. I actually hummed and hawed over the R, and was 60% sure I picked the wrong spelling, but put it in as I have R on the brain. Almost all I have been doing all day is practicing words like venerdi, martedi, mercoledi, and other rhotic nightmares Italian seems to delight in. My R fixation spilled over into English, sorry. #101010 - 04/15/03 11:05 AM Re: junioR nitpickeR   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Jackie Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky 24-hour clock sounds much better. I never knew there was anything but military time to call it; never knew that anybody outside the military used such a confusing thing. If the hours in our days were evenly divisible by 10, I wouldn't mind--that would be an easy calculation. But I have never had any reason to memorize the "12-plus" tables (as it were), so it always takes me a long time to figure out 12-plus-what equals x. Yes, I know it would be quicker to figure x-12 = n, but I don't like doing it that way. (Yes, I know I'm weird.) I'll take my regular clocks any day. 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