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Hey wordminstrel. Take a deep breath and chill out. This post to mg and the one you made to CapK on another thread are certainly the type of personal comments, if you feel they need to be said in such a tone at all (I dunno why), would best be said in private...that's what the PM is for.
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personal comments .... that's what PM is for
You make a good point, WhitmanO'N.
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board ... but let us PLS ourselves first.
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Flagrantly ignoring WO'N's very good advice (sorry honey! you know I love you anyway!) - as, indeed, wordminstrel has -
wordminstrel, since you're so keen on plsing others, why don't you take a long walk off a short pier? That would pls me enormously.
Cheers!
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i am glad to see that you are back :-)
I think that the usage of B and S words to name an old maiden and an unmarried man is purely accidental. I compare it with a totally unrelated language (Russian, as you probably guessed) and here a spinster is called literally "old virgin" and a bachelor has the same root as the verb meaning "to be neutered". I know that Russian women used to do a lot of spinning as well but still we do not call an old maiden "prjadil'schica"
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Hi Vika! Wow, that's interesting - that in Russian, it's "old virgin," and the same root as "to be neutered" for men....Somehow that makes me feel better about "spinster" and "bachelor"!
Now I'm beginning to wonder from whence the surname "Batchelor" derives....Anyone know?
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why don't you take a long walk off a short pier?
At least we know what "peace", "love" and "service" mean to you, MG.
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it's now purely a vehicle for people to be "discovered" in Hollywood.Ah! Wink, nudge, say no more. Thanks FB. 
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Russian and English are not unrelated, vika. Both evolved from indo-european.
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At least we know what "peace", "love" and "service" mean to you, MG.
Dear wordminstrel: Pls don't call me "MG". That implies a friendly familiarity which you obviously do not feel. In fact, pls refrain from addressing me at all, since you are so obviously only concerned with attacking me. Merci bien.
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>Poster: AnnaStrophic
>Russian and English are not unrelated, vika. Both evolved >from indo-european.
I agree. what I really mean is that they are more distant relatives than English and German, for example. I wonder how
spinster/bachelor are called in German.
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