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a careful reading of my postashcannily, a careful reading of my post may reveal I was not responding to your orignal post, my poor benighted bottom-dweller, but rather to the second interraction between you and tsuwm   But as ever I take your point - and I think we may be saying much the same, noting the difference in cultural connotation rather than linguistic denotation. Now about that nice Mr Bush and his sequacious multitudes...  I saw a survey the other day that said 24% of USn respondents believed WMD had actually been used in that other 'gulf' recently - gag me with a turnip!
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Well, maintaining the tetrapyloctomous spirit of this thread, I feel obliged to point out that even my response to tsuwm made no mention of meaning. What this means, you Welsh weirdo, is that we do indeed agree about this.
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made no mention of meaning
then what does shift mean in this context?
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made no mention of meaning
then what does shift mean in this context?Here, I must concede that the ovinophile expressed my view very succintly: In reply to:
the difference in cultural connotation rather than linguistic denotation
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so, perhaps the second meaning isn't complimentary at all? nor perjorative, but merey observational?
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so there's no way to actually delete the whole post, not just erase the contents?
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Well, it could be said to be observationally perjorative. Or perjoratively observational.
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should't this proliferation of a misspell be chopped off at the ankle?, joe axed pejoratively..
pejorative adj. [LL pejoratus, pp. of pejorare to make or become worse, fr. L pejor worse; akin to Skt padyate he falls, L ped-, pes foot more at foot] (ca. 1888)
: having negative connotations; esp : tending to disparage or belittle : depreciatory
(C) 1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
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yoiks! I pejorare-ated it!
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What's the penalty for committing perjory?
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