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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread #81564 - 09/23/02 07:30 PM more word   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Desipience - silliness. "Sapiens" = wise . Tsuwm had the word, but didn't give derivation. #81565 - 09/23/02 07:48 PM Re: more word   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Divagate - to stray, wander. I do it all the time. From dis + vagare #81566 - 09/23/02 07:58 PM Re: more word   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Divaricate = to stretch apart, put asunder. Kehre die Beinchen nicht in die Höhe, naughty Jove might be watching. But when I looked up "prevaricate" I was surpised that the Latin meant "walk crookedly"/ #81567 - 09/23/02 08:14 PM Re: Di/Pre Varicate   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 MW runs em both back to varicare, to straddle. #81568 - 09/23/02 08:23 PM Re: Di/Pre Varicate   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Faldage: I used to use slit-trench varicare-fully. #81569 - 09/23/02 09:43 PM Re:eristic   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 From the goddess of Discord, Eris. Pertaining to controversy, quarrelsome. #81570 - 09/23/02 10:12 PM Re:flagitious   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 1 Cr, 5: 9 - 13 Christians are to avoid the familiar conversation of fellow-Christians that are notoriously wicked, and under just censure for their flagitious practices. #81571 - 09/24/02 12:00 AM Re:flagitious   Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Dr. Bill, don't get caught flagrante delicto with your flagitous practices! #81572 - 10/04/02 01:47 AM Re:synectics   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 From "engines of our ingenuity" Modern engineering designers are up to an odd piece of work. It's called synectics. The word is Greek. It means binding different elements, and it fits invention. We invent when we see relations that other people have missed. The word synectics was coined by William Gordon in 1961. Gordon points out that putting three people in a room doesn't mean trippling their effect. Three people with IQ's of 150 aren't apt to perform like one person with an IQ of 450. You have to do more than put people in the same space to make them do what they're capable of doing. Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message View Homepage Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts View Profile Send Private Message Follow User Show Forum Posts Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,881 Posts224,661 Members9,048 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Sammy87, Bentron2000, Santanu, DavidOrigami, RichEngle 9048 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 registered members (), 76 guests, and 3 spiders. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 51 A C Bowden 25 LukeJavan8 10 may2point0 3 SantaFeR 1 Top Posters(All Time) wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,538 LukeJavan8 9,120 wofahulicodoc 7,883 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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