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Hilarious! Dale is sending everyone out into the desert without food, drink or travalling map.  I think ' galvanize ' a pretty good word. Darn, discrete faint messages are no longer possible. It shows in black print in the Active Topics list.
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I've always wanted to do that.
In this hotbed of mutual recrimination we call the Internet, at 78rpm, and while these things used to bother me before I turned in my credentials as a prescriptivist, Laverne also agrees with me, and she is much smarter than I, that I must be a really terrible person. But seriously folks, I have been collecting dahilistic formulae now for a dictionary of same, and although I remain the world's most resoundingly unpublished lexicographer, forgive me for bubbling this back up, I won't make it a habit, but why is it that a drive drive drive drive is?
Thank you for that, I have ensconced it amongst my faves
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Luke the topic is a word I can't recall, and I need it to describe my theory on the speed of light http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=247068Fal: To the contrary, my question was very explicit Hydra: Oh you can believe it was the first thing I did. Very unsuccessful as usual, OneLook's Reverse Dictionary is not very sophisticated and at length I gave up, but thank you anyhow Bran: Yes "galvanize" come close but there's a better word zm: Why, I'm flattered
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Okay, dale, since you completely ignored me, I'll never reply to another of your posts.
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Okay, dale, since you completely ignored me, I'll never reply to another of your posts. Oh, goodness! Priceless! Dale, though my adress is indeed Galvani, your notice of the word 'galvanize' should be adressed to stuwm. (I only brought in the desert)
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Well, I know it couldn't be "pique"... two, oh don't desert me, I need all the support I can get, but thank you for the contribution. "pique" implies a sort of negative connotation whereas the word I'm looking for is more encouraging
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Okay, I forgive you.. :0) But I disagree about "pique". I was aiming at "piquing ones interest", which has no negative connotations at all. In fact, to me it's positive. The other use of pique was demonstrated by me in my last post... ;0)
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yes, and in a fit of absolute pique, it is I who will be ignoring dahil forthwith and forever, for ascribing 'galvanize' to the wrong scribe, and moreover for not recognizing three(3) strokes of galvanic genius, 3) zmjezhd's stimulating post, which at first blush I thought had been written by dahil his own self, 2) Hydra's inciteful and inflammatorily dahilistic suggestion to use the execrable reverse dictionary, and 1) my own fomentary and momentary (but not momentous (or memorous)) suggestion, which predictably (and I did) was wrong, even though backed up with a fellow of historical significance.
*I would like to acknowledge the following fellows of less (fewer?) than historical portent: Dr I. F. 'Izzy' Stimulous; Mr Serge Foment; Johnny B. Goad; and, least of all, Ms Ann Thropic
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Yes I think I understand what you're getting at - something that piques interest in a thing that everyone thinks has been done to death in other ways, stimulating their imagination and galvanizing them to investigate by looking at it in a way that involves a paradigm shift in thinking. The word is... the word is... um... dunno.
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Continuing on, I did not find gauss to be verbed.
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