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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Feedback. #114401 10/25/03 02:05 AM 10/25/03 02:05 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind OP Carpal Tunnel Wordwind   OP Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... What's the problem with this word? Regurgitation? Re: Feedback. #114402 10/25/03 02:08 AM 10/25/03 02:08 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont it keeps coming back on you? formerly known as etaoin... Re: Feedback. #114403 10/25/03 02:58 AM 10/25/03 02:58 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Nobody much "gurgitates", so it makes little sense to say that a person re-gurgitates, when they haven't gurgitated in the first place. PS: This is my six hundreth post on AWAD since arriving here a little over 37 months ago. Might we have the smallest (but nonetheless sincere) fanfare, please? Re: Feedback. #114404 10/25/03 03:02 AM 10/25/03 03:02 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk   Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 HA. Do you realize this is the only place in the world where we'd like a little fanfare when we become an addict? Congrats FS. Re: Regurgitation #114405 10/25/03 04:43 AM 10/25/03 04:43 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka   Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok I'd comment on this, but something keeps coming up. Ta-daaaaa! Welcome to your addicthood, padre. You are now eligible to join Wordaholicals Synonymous. We meet online and before you can fully join the group, you have to admit "I'm a wordaholical!". Only then can you get it really bad ... Re: Feedback. #114406 10/25/03 06:08 AM 10/25/03 06:08 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley   Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Congratulations Father. Perhaps you could design a special service of prayer and thanksgiving for these important milestones. Bingley Bingley Re: Feedback. #114407 10/25/03 06:52 AM 10/25/03 06:52 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA I can see it now: ~The Missa Etymologica. ~Rosaries with the letters of the alphabet engraved on the beads. ~A Litany for Logophiles. ~Versicles for Verbivores. ~The Supplication of the Sesquipedalians. Re: Feedback. #114408 10/25/03 07:04 AM 10/25/03 07:04 AM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui >Might we have the smallest (but nonetheless sincere) fanfare, please? Well done, well done indeed. Tell me, though, is there is an ethical dilemma attached to a priest/judge who has an addiction problem? noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Re: Feedback. #114409 10/25/03 11:44 AM 10/25/03 11:44 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 We got the word wholesale from the Medieval Latins and they gurgitated up a storm whenever they felt like it. Incidentally, the re- in this word is not acting in its role as a repeater but as an intensifier. http://www.bartleby.com/61/88/R0128800.html Re: Feedback. #114410 10/25/03 12:19 PM 10/25/03 12:19 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind OP Carpal Tunnel Wordwind   OP Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... You mean, if you're gonna gurgitate, then you better gurgitate intensely? (Congratulations on your attainment of addict status, FS.) Re: Feedback. #114411 10/25/03 12:50 PM 10/25/03 12:50 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey   addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 Faldage, I didn't quite get the intensifier part. Since we got the word wholesale, the re is not an English prefix. The word's meaning has changed from just overflow or engulf to include a definite implication of reversal of the direction of flow. It means flow backwards which the Latin doesn't not. Maybe it should have been antiregurgitate? ^5, Father! Welcome to the Ballroom, Padre #114412 10/25/03 01:50 PM 10/25/03 01:50 PM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=medicine&Number=49209 Just regurgitating a bit of fun from my pastMay I have this dance? Congratulations, FS You mean, if you're gonna gurgitate, then you better gurgitate intensely? Honestly, WW, is there any other way? Re: Feedback. #114413 10/25/03 02:11 PM 10/25/03 02:11 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York I sort of get the intensifier part. It's kinda like the re in "refried beans"; doesn't mean they've been fried twice but that they've been fried, er, intensely. I think. And yes, Father Steve, it's comforting somehow to have you now irrevocably in our midst. Re: Feedback. #114414 10/25/03 02:40 PM 10/25/03 02:40 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey   addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 but that they've been fried, er, intensely. I think. Yes but, in this case, you are not overflowing intensely because you got the word wholesale from Latin, and also there is the component of backward flow. Re: Feedback. #114415 10/25/03 04:25 PM 10/25/03 04:25 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Yes but, in this case, you are not overflowing intensely because you got the word wholesale from Latin, and also there is the component of backward flow. HUH? i know, on those occations that i have regurgated i have had a backward flow of food--going from my stomach to my mouth..(and included stomach acids, and other bodily fluids..Yuck!) and i am Yes, overflowing intensely--the cramps and contractions of the muscles involved are very intense! of course i realize the word is sometimes use for 'learning' instead of the more common use in referring (or semi politely refering)to what in slang has 1000 or so terms,(blow donots, praying at the shrine of the porceline goddess,etc) and what the good doctors here might refer to as emesis (well, at least that what they call the little kidney shaped bowl they provide you with.. an emesis basin(and jump right in and correct me if i have spelt it wrong!)) and even regurgatated learning is something that seems to flow backwards rather intensely, and it has just as unpleasant after taste! my other obsession Re: Feedback. #114416 10/25/03 04:41 PM 10/25/03 04:41 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Feedback is a very old term in electronics. I learned it nearly seventy years ago, when a microphone was placed close enough to the speakers that hum from the speakers was fed back to the microphone, and rapidly built up a very unpleasant loud noise from the speakers. Re: Feedback. #114417 10/25/03 05:41 PM 10/25/03 05:41 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA is there is an ethical dilemma attached to a priest/judge who has an addiction problem? For those who pay real attention to such concerns, life is a constant ethical problem. Re: Feedback. #114418 10/27/03 11:10 AM 10/27/03 11:10 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka   Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Does that make people who don't pay attention inethical or just disethical? Re: Feedback. #114419 10/27/03 01:38 PM 10/27/03 01:38 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA People who don't pay attention to ethical issues are living part, but not all, of their lives. Re: Feedback. #114420 10/28/03 10:17 AM 10/28/03 10:17 AM Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Alaska A AndrewsGhost newbie AndrewsGhost   newbie A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Alaska In reply to: What's the problem with this word? Regurgitation? It's capitalized. Unless it is a proper noun, or at the beginning of a sentence, it shouldn't be. Despite the word being followed immediately by a question mark, I don't think it's a proper sentence. Is it? If anybody names their kid this, I think that would bring up the ethical issues thread. I don't know of any landmarks, cities, or other proper nouns named this... does anybody else? Congrats FS! Re: Feedback. #114421 10/31/03 01:31 AM 10/31/03 01:31 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Congratulations, Father Steve, on becoming an addict. And oh man, you-all are killin' me! I laughed out loud at Nobody much "gurgitates" , and again at Do you realize this is the only place in the world where we'd like a little fanfare when we become an addict? , and even louder at I'd comment on this, but something keeps coming up. What I want to know is this: what do we do with the words we get retail? Re: Feedback. #114422 10/31/03 12:45 PM 10/31/03 12:45 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park What I want to know is this: what do we do with the words we get retail? RETAIL?--you're still getting words retail? i think everyone here has gone on to getting them wholesale, (tsuwm has a web site for distributing them, wholesale, he'll a bon a vide dealer in words.) and goodness knows, most of use here have on occations gone into production and distributions of words.. (even if not as a scale as grand as shakespear or dickens, or some other well know producers.) retail? Jackie, its a NYC mantra, 'NEVER BUY RETAIL'! my other obsession Re: Feedback. #114423 10/31/03 01:16 PM 10/31/03 01:16 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky HA! Remember? This is a thread about "feedback"! #114424 10/31/03 08:50 PM 10/31/03 08:50 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,970 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,970 Worcester, MA Don't fret, Bill, at least you tried. If you hadn't posted, I would have. 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