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#35597 - 07/13/01 07:24 PM 
Carpal Tunnel
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#35598 - 07/13/01 11:34 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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#35599 - 07/14/01 01:29 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 3439
Loc: New England, USA
Hmmmm! Verrrry interesting. Now, why is stuff that is on sale at Blankstore.com online is not on sale or even available in the real, local Blank store?
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#35600 - 07/14/01 04:46 PM 
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
antidisestablishmentarianism (hi, Bingley). I have to think, "Ok, mediation I understand. Intermediation is understandable. Disintermediation: oh yeah, against intermediation. Antidisintermediation: way too big of a stretch, but ok, I followed it all." That last one is like Bingley's story of two positives making a negative:
"yeah, yeah"; but in this case it's two negatives making a positive. Seems to me it's the equivalent of saying
against against intermediaries: ree-dick-i-lous!
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#35601 - 07/14/01 07:52 PM
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 01/05/01
Posts: 1814
Loc: Spam Factory
*You can get the word online for $8.95.
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#35602 - 07/15/01 01:41 PM
old hand
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Posts: 1094
Loc: Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U...
"yeah, yeah";
When I saw this story posted I didn't understand how that makes a negative, but I didn't respond. I still don't understand it. The only double positive that I can think of that makes a negative is the sarcastic "yeah, right". Could you perhaps explain the other example?
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#35603 - 07/15/01 01:50 PM Anonymous
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#35604 - 07/15/01 03:08 PM
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/14/01
Posts: 2379
Loc: New York City
Sure, sure.
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#35605 - 07/15/01 09:51 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 2636
Loc: Caribbean
consuelo
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#35606 - 07/16/01 05:52 AM
old hand
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Posts: 1156
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah...
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#35607 - 07/16/01 07:42 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Sign me up, Bean! Grand idea! Maybe we'll replace The
Backstreet Boys!I'll be John; you can be Paul.
Now we need a George and a Ringo. Hey--in this forum, we
can make a white album!
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#35608 - 07/17/01 09:30 PM
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#35609 - 07/17/01 10:15 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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Let's see what Ms. Bean has to say--I'm easy.
What should our first song be? Bean, do you have any ideas,
either?
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#35610 - 07/17/01 11:49 PM Anonymous
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Lucy in the Sky with Diphthongs?
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#35611 - 07/18/01 07:09 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 11613
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Ohmigawd! Shrieks of laughter!
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#35612 - 07/18/01 08:25 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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This is, of course, a disingenuous (or would you prefer genuous?) definition, since the description goes on to point out that what it *really means is opposition to the idea that the middleman should be avoided. Leaving unmentioned the fact that this puts the antidisintermediationists in the position of the labor unions that decreed that the fireman was still needed on a railroad train crew even into the age of diesel engines I would only say that to be opposed to someone else's opposition is not the same thing as being for the thing opposed. To take the attitude that they are indistinguishable would be the equivalent of saying that the phrase "not unkind" was identical to the term "kind".
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#35613 - 07/18/01 08:33 AM
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#35614 - 07/18/01 08:49 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Definitely. I was using expediency to try and point out the awkwardness of the word.
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#35615 - 07/18/01 09:08 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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This just shows the weakness of the logical multiple negative as opposed to the vigor of the emphatic multiple negative. My classic examples being I couldn't fail to disagree with you less to illustrate the former (I have been using that phrase for more than ten years and I *still don't know what it means) and I don't like to have to hurt nobody without they ain't no chance of no gold in it for me the latter, which leaves no doubt in any but the most obstinate curmudgeon's mind as to the meaning.
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#35616 - 07/18/01 10:29 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: this too shall pass
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#35617 - 07/18/01 11:03 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Er, wouldn't that be abilitudinitatibous?
Oh, I am SO GLAD to see you back!<EG>
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#35618 - 07/18/01 11:27 AM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 10538
Loc: this too shall pass
I don't think that that's the way that WS spelled it. [YCLIU] and we all know that he knew. 8 )
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#35619 - 07/18/01 03:57 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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