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#125049 03/13/04 02:08 PM
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WW-- Just sent him email. We'll see, may require a phone call to extract info.


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Of course you mean imporrect

No-one is perfect, jheem. But no-one is "inperfect" either.

There is a time for "in" and a time "im", but, in the case of "inporrect", "im" is out.


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Re: "what the terms for sideways, upward and even backwards-pointing antennae might be"

I'm sorry I didn't answer your question directly, Wordwind. I was trying to be discreet.

You've got your "lateral" thinkers and tinkers, and your "retro" thinkers and tinkers, but they are all equally "inporrect".

If you want to be "porrect", you have to point onwards or upwards ... and you have to put your heart into it.

It is said that the blood will not flow where the channel is constricted by privilege.

This is especially true of "new blood".

If you get too much plaque in your channel, you can only make love to yourself.

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Porridge is ultimately from Latin porrum 'leek, chive'. And porrect is divided morphologically between its two 'r's. por + rect, the former is related to our fro and the latter to our right.


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por + rect, the former is related to our fro and the latter to our right

True, but "rectitude" is not "porrectitude", jheem.

They may come from the same root, but they are headed in opposite directions.







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Re "useless beauties"

"Consider the lilies of the field", Wordwind.

Beauty is never useless in the eye of the beholder. [But, then, you already know that.]

Come to think of it, even tsuwm would be hard-pressed to come up with a truly "useless" word ... for all his efforts.

Even "buxiferous" has a certain ring to it.


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Even "buxiferous" has a certain ring to it.

It may be a "Box Tree" at Walmart, but it is "buxiferrous" at Neiman Marcus.

That "ring" we're hearing is pure ca$het.


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WW-- Just got my answer back from entomologist friend. He's never heard the word. He suggests it might be new terminology. Sigh. Oh, well.


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Porridge is ultimately from Latin porrum 'leek, chive'.

jheem, isn't porridge the anglicised version of potage ? Did potage then come form porrum? Nice turn there, r-t-r!

I have an absurd fear of cockroaches; whenever I spot one, I always imagine it porrecting its antennae in my direction, ready to chase my suddenly-turned-to stone feet! {{shuddering shivers}}


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