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I just found your site, gush, and thought I'd share some cool words I just learned: spamdexing ( link) and link farm ( link).
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Our child backpack carriers baby gear collection from Deuter include the KangaKid, Kid Aircomfort, Kid Comfort I, Kid Comfort II and Kid Comfort III. The Kelty child carriers include the Tour, Wanderer, Journey, Pathfinder, Adventure, Transit Carrier 1.0, Transit Carrier 2.0 and Transit Carrier 2.0. In addition, we offer Kelty’s Convertible which converts from a stroller to a child backpack carrier. ================ hohn Baby Gear Is this an advertisement?? Do such posters pay to advertise their wares here??
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It's SPAM. We've been SPUM. The only payment they make is in their self-respect.
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Thanks for the "heads up": we've been spummed.
Don't the powers that be ultimately erase this stuff?
Other sites do. Or are we supposed to get on the spammers
case?
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No, Luke, we don't like ads here. Sorry to be a little late getting here.* This week I have had two good friends go into the hospital and a sick relative, plus today was Derby Day (MAN what a race!!! Mine That Bird came out of NOWHERE! Calvin Borel is just a supertalented jockey; his horse won the Kentucky Oaks yesterday, too--that's the Derby equivalent for fillies.)
*Anyone and everyone, please feel free to send me a PM if there's something you want to direct my attention to. Thank you.
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Thanks for the "heads up": we've been spummed.
No, no, no! You don't combine the -ed ending of the weak verbs with the ablaut series of the strong verbs. It's spim, spam, have spum.
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Hurray for Lambert ten Kate!  Still waiting for his statue somewhere. The term ablaut (from German ab- in the sense "down, reducing" + Laut "sound") was coined in the early 19th century by the linguist Jacob Grimm, though the phenomenon was first described a century earlier by the Dutch linguist Lambert ten Kate in his book Gemeenschap tussen de Gottische spraeke en de Nederduytsche ("Commonality between the Gothic language and Dutch", 1710).So it's like swim swam swum _ 'He has swum', do we say that? Or ----------ring rang rung _ 'He has rung the bell'?
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Never heard of him, this Lambert ten Kate, Dutch philologist and archaeologist. (Thanks for the enlightenment, Bran.) I have heard of another famous Dutch linguist, Johannes Goropius Becanus [1519-1572] ( link) who "theorized that Antwerpian Flemish, or Brabantic, spoken in the region between the Scheldt and Meuse Rivers, was the original language spoken in Paradise". Though Goropius had admirers (among them Abraham Ortelius and Richard Hakluyt), his etymologies have been considered "linguistic chauvinism," and Leibniz coined the term "goropism" to mean "absurd etymology." Justus Lipsius and Hugo Grotius discounted Goropius’ linguistic theories. "Never have I read greater nonsense," the scholar Joseph Scaliger wrote of Goropius' etymologies. One meets some modern day Goropian language enthsuiasts on the boards these days. Another, and more famous, Dutch linguist I know of is Hendrik Poutsma, who wrote a wonderful grammar of English (see link for volume one of five digitized). Two of the best 20th century grammars of English were written by non-native speakers of English (the other grammarian is Otto Jespersen), though the Dutch and the Danes hold their own when it comes to learning other languages. Ablaut and its younger sibling, umlaut, are types of apophony ( link).
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Right. No statue for Goropius. In Paradise it was and is all telepathy and music.
(Lambert came from Faldages link. btw.). But Goropius is good for a laugh.
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No, Luke, we don't like ads here. Sorry to be a little late getting here.* This week I have had two good friends go into the hospital and a sick relative, plus today was Derby Day (MAN what a race!!! Mine That Bird came out of NOWHERE! Calvin Borel is just a supertalented jockey; his horse won the Kentucky Oaks yesterday, too--that's the Derby equivalent for fillies.)
*Anyone and everyone, please feel free to send me a PM if there's something you want to direct my attention to. Thank you. Hey! Not a problem! Nor is it a criticism, just a comment. So sorry about your friends. (Was actually enjoying the word SPUM)
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Thanks for the "heads up": we've been spummed.
No, no, no! You don't combine the -ed ending of the weak verbs with the ablaut series of the strong verbs. It's spim, spam, have spum. WOW, do I stand corrected. Thought you were joking until I read the Wiki. Thanks again for the heads' up.
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Thanks for the "heads up": we've been spummed.
No, no, no! You don't combine the -ed ending of the weak verbs with the ablaut series of the strong verbs. It's spim, spam, have spum. Little problem: "With the death of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the English had decided they had had enough of "lord protectors of the commonwealth," and asked for their king back. Charles II returned to England in 1660. The royal physician reported that alpha, always slightly variable, shone especially bright on Charles' return. The new king carried on in the high diplomatic traditions of his father, Charles I (executed at the behest of Cromwell). He had Cromwell disinterred, hanged, and beheaded in 1661. " I really would like to know the thruth of it now. Is it hang hing hung or is it hang hung hanged?
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Is it hang hing hung or is it hang hung hanged? Others will tell you that there are two verbs to hang in English: one that takes human dependents (no pun intended), i.e., hang, hanged, and the other which takes non-human ones (e.g., picture), i.e., hang, hung. Henge (as in Stonehenge) and hinge are related (cf. what the wonderful MWDEU has to say at link).
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which only goes to show that there just ain't no gettin' it right, no matter how carefully you've wrought it.
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Thanks for the "heads up": we've been spummed.
No, no, no! You don't combine the -ed ending of the weak verbs with the ablaut series of the strong verbs. It's spim, spam, have spum. God, is that a verb? Spim, spam, spum? )))) I didn't know that. Thanks.
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It's wise to take anything Faldage says with a grain of salt.
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It's wise to take anything Faldage says with a grain of salt. he said, with all humility. Actually I appreciate that.
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Baby gear is one thing. My first vehicle was a 1950 Ford F-1 pickup with a granny gear.
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And we could do camping gear, which I imagine would include
a bear-gun for some parts of this country, elephant gun in
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