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say "directment" over and over and over
Ah-ite, Mr Minderbinder, I'll give it a try, but don't be coming puling and micturating at me when it comes back it don't look nothing like it did when you dropped it into this morass.
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The complete tosh gurgitated by our down-south acquaintance begs the question you asked, Julian. "Directment" doesn't exist in dictionary.com - the only dictionary I currently have access to. And although I can't check at the moment, I'm willing to bet that if it does exist in a dictionary somewhere, perhaps, for instance, the much-boosted OED, it won't mean what it appears to be meant to mean in the statement you quoted.
However since it emanated from the US government, it's a safe bet that one of the US president's equally ill-educated minions came up with it when s/he couldn't come up with "proponent" or "supporter" or some synonym of them.
Coining new words is only justified when there isn't a word which exactly means what you want to say. Except swear-words of course, and this [i[could be one those, of course.
Welcome, by the way.
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Coining new words is only justified when there isn't a word which exactly means what you want to say.
And as long as this "you" is singular, Cap. Ki, and the singular "you" wants to say something that maybe the rest of the you's out there might not "want" to say, we're back in a "to each his own" kind of linguistic situation...taste is indisputable and all that jazz.
Where is Musick when we need him?
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Where is Musick when we need him?
Off, no doubt, involved in the directment of the reconstructuring of the venerable H. Dumpty.
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re:(Coming Next Post: Milo Makes Mincemeat Out Of Fishonabike - The Nicest Man In England.)
Now that's a neat trick, and i want to see it done.. now if you had suggested gefilte fish, i wouldn't have been too surprised, but to make mince meat out of fish!
Just what county do you live in? Bumcome is it?
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Mincemeat Out Of Fishonabike
Eewww! With little pieces of frame and derailleur and like that?
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perhaps milo was trying to get into the faux-French thing--but directement means something else entirement.
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the faux-French thing
Lemme toss that into the mix. I'll be back with you directment, tsuwm.
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perhaps milo was trying to get into the faux-French thing--but directement means something else entirement.
Well, entirementally, what does directement mean, she asked pointmentally?
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actualment®, Faldage used it properment just then..
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