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#210078 - 03/21/13 03:12 PM Re: Darned if I'm gonna be the first one to show up [Re: jenny jenny]
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taught to today's button-pushing students.
miscursive what we will have when no one will be able
to sign their own names any longer: and then will have to
have barcodes on their wrists for identification purposes.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#210079 - 03/21/13 08:53 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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DISBURSITIVE - pertaining to the duties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Sounds like a word Pooh-Bah would have used, if it existed, dunnit?)
#210080 - 03/21/13 08:58 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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or
DISCUSSIVE -- the language of most rappers
#210081 - 03/21/13 09:00 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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when you get shy bladder and the nurse/probation officer is
waiting.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#210086 - 03/22/13 03:30 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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impregnable
PRONUNCIATION:(im-PREG-nuh-buhl)
MEANING:adjective:
1. Incapable of being taken by force; strong enough to withstand attack.
2. Capable of being impregnated.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Old French imprenable, from in- (not) + prenable (vulnerable to capture), from prendre (to take, seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize, take), which is also the source of pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, pregnant, osprey, prison, and get. Earliest documented use: 1430.
For 2: From Latin impraegnaere (to fertilize, impregnate). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gen- (to give birth), which also gave birth to words such as generate, engine, indigenous, and germ.
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impegnable - to be capable of being pegged or not.
#210087 - 03/22/13 03:57 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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----please, draw me a sheep----
#210111 - 03/25/13 06:13 PM Monday's Word [Re: LukeJavan8]
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PRONUNCIATION:(sy-kuh-LOJ-i-kuhl MOH-muhnt)
MEANING:
noun: The most appropriate time for achieving a desired result; the critical moment.
ETYMOLOGY:
Loan translation of French moment psychologique (psychological moment), which itself is a mistaken loan translation of German das psychologische Moment (psychological element or factor) taken as der psychologische Moment (the psychological moment of time). The word came to French during the German Siege of Paris in 1870. Earliest documented use: 1871.
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O > E
psychological mement- a pop culture fad word that goes viral. EX: viral
#210114 - 03/26/13 03:46 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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psychological moment - an example of psychobabble: meaingless, overblown, self-consciously pompous and needlessly complex, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. Don't like the phrase to begin with. So there.
psychological foment - stir up trouble by pushing people's buttons...
#210117 - 03/26/13 03:41 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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clueless
----please, draw me a sheep----
#210121 - 03/26/13 09:59 PM Tuesday's foment. [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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running dog
PRONUNCIATION: (RUN-ing dog)
MEANING:noun: A servile follower; lackey.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Chinese zougou, from zou (running) + gou (dog), apparently as an allusion to a dog running to follow his or her master's commands. This term was employed in Chinese Communist terminology to refer to someone who was considered subservient to counter-revolutionary interest. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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D > J
RUNNING JOG- a slow run, a fast jog.
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