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| worm |
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: 1 |
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you mean like this word
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chau·vin·ism Audio pronunciation of "chauvinist" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (shv-nzm)
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1. Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.
2. Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind: “the chauvinism... of making extraterrestrial life in our own image” (Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.).
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| HyToFry |
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject: 0 |
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| VinnyQ wrote: |
I get to use the word accosted today! I wasn't sure if I was using it correctly or if it was the right word to use, so I looked it up in dictionary.com. Look what I found!
2 entries found for accosted.
ac·cost Audio pronunciation of "accosted" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-kôst, -kst)
tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs
1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
2. To solicit for sex.
And yep, I did used it correctly and in the right context. I am so happeeh  |
It's all about popular usage... If someone demanded something from you (and it wasn't sex) then you're using a (now) archaic definition of accosted. :p (please note that that very well could be ONLY IMHO.)
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| So did she understand what you said to her? Wink |
Well of course... VinnyQ is a very smooth talking unplugged sex machine.  |
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| AhhBut_* |
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject: -1 |
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So did she understand what you said to her?  |
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| VinnyQ |
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: -2 |
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I get to use the word accosted today! I wasn't sure if I was using it correctly or if it was the right word to use, so I looked it up in dictionary.com. Look what I found!
2 entries found for accosted.
ac·cost Audio pronunciation of "accosted" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-kôst, -kst)
tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs
1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
2. To solicit for sex.
And yep, I did used it correctly and in the right context. I am so happeeh  |
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| Camryn |
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:02 am Post subject: -3 |
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| Hitchhiker |
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:09 am Post subject: -4 |
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absquatulate
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To depart in a hurry; abscond. |
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| Vinny |
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: -5 |
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FYI:
pro·mis·cu·ous adj
Lacking standards of selection; indiscriminate. |
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| Vinny |
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: -6 |
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misanthropist n.
One who hates or mistrusts humankind. A hater of mankind; a misanthropist. someone who dislikes people in general.
philanthropist n.
One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.
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| Hitchhiker |
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:35 pm Post subject: -7 |
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protuberance n. Bump.
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| sk |
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject: -8 |
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| i have no idea what you are talking about (insert innocent smiliey) |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject: -9 |
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Vinny's word in post 88 may explain why SaberKitty just posted the same word as Mathgrant did in post 108.
------------------ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature
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| SaberKitty |
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject: -10 |
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favonian pampero
of or relating to the west wind strong cold wind from the west or southwest that sweeps over the pampas
vinny's worthless news taught me a new word!
[This message has been edited by SaberKitty (edited 12-27-2003 03:29 PM).] |
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| Vinny |
Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject: -11 |
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devolve
to de-evolve.
You are so lazy you will devolve to being apelike, monkeybreath. |
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| sk |
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject: -12 |
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kakistocracy Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens
i saw this word and thought that the only person who would use it on a daily basis was boro  |
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| mathgrant |
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:36 pm Post subject: -13 |
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| Soyuz is a rather goofy looking word. |
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| Orbiting |
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:24 pm Post subject: -14 |
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quiddity - the particular quality of a thing, that which distinguishes it from other things (its thingness, if you will). From Latin quid est? (What is it?) (that's my word of the day) |
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| sk |
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 3:47 am Post subject: -15 |
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correct usage: Or, we can go back to my place and I can defenestrate you  |
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| Vinny |
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 11:11 pm Post subject: -16 |
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Ah ... thx SK.
Invalid usage: How would you like to go home with me and formicate?
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| MillerTime |
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 3:48 am Post subject: -17 |
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defenestration: The act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
I just think it's cool that there's a word for that. Not as cool as SK's word though.  |
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| Lepton |
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:05 am Post subject: -18 |
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| ~laughs so hard that he tips like a cow~ |
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| sk |
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:59 am Post subject: -19 |
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ok, this is just about the coolest thing ever (imho) i just learned this word yesterday, but have managed to tell like 10 people. perhaps you know it but i still think it's pretty nifty...
formication: n. the sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin |
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| Hitchhiker |
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject: -20 |
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| The German word for happiness in someone else's misfortune (watching someone slip on a banana peel, etc.) is Schadenfreude. |
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| mathgrant |
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:49 am Post subject: -21 |
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favonian \fuh-VOH-nee-un\ adjective
: of or relating to the west wind : mild |
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| Orbiting |
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 7:55 pm Post subject: -22 |
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Antrax asked me what the opposite of commiseration was - what the word for being happy in another person's happiness.
If Antrax, or anyone else, still cares, the word for joy in someone else's happiness is macarism.
-o- (better late than never) |
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| Termital |
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 12:45 pm Post subject: -23 |
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Ahem. This is a true stumper. How are we going to use that monstrosity all over the GL? Anyway, I think that oneiric: in the likeness of, or belonging to dreams may come in slightly more handy.
*goes off to start a thread on DYI fiberglass installation* |
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| d8P |
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject: -24 |
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| Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolconiocosis is a disease contracted by inhaling particles of fibreglass. The disease(-cosis) causes tiny(-ultramicroscopic-) swellings(-volconi-) on the airsacs in your lungs (pneumon-). |
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| Termital |
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:40 am Post subject: -25 |
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Oh, yeah? What did Babbage build then? What were his Difference Engines and Analytical Machines?
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| groza528 |
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 1:52 am Post subject: -26 |
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God.
Seriously though, it was Univac. |
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| VinnyQ |
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject: -27 |
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| Jordan |
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject: -28 |
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| What was the name of the first computer? |
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| Jordan |
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: -29 |
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| Yes I think we all get kind of lazy. |
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| VinnyQ |
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject: -30 |
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I know what the answer is. I am just too lazy to try to remember it.
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| Scotty Ř |
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:08 am Post subject: -31 |
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*scratches head at VinnyQ's interesting aside*
Well CrystyB, I've got one thing to say to you... you're probably right!
Chuck: Good points also mate 
Actually, I was asked this question myself once, and couldn't figure it out, I just wondered what the intelligence at the GL had to say about it... also I'm trying to get to however many posts you need to not be an Icarian Member 
VinnyQ: I'm taking Software design at the moment, and I asked my teacher about this one (we got back to school today) he had no idea what i was talking about, but he said he'd look into it. I'll try and get an answer for you soon mate!
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| VinnyQ |
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:15 am Post subject: -32 |
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You figure that one out. I am going to bed.
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| VinnyQ |
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:13 am Post subject: -33 |
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A curious aside: in computer's language, there are binary (zeros and ones), machine languages (assembly: symbol representing patterns of 0s & 1s), and high level languages (C, Visual Basic, Pascal: common languages representing sets of assembly).
I wasn't paying much attention in my intro to cs class, but I caught the term "boot strapping" as meaning something along the line that quite a few compilers (programs that translate high level languages to machine languages) are quite often created by using the same high level languages that it is suppose to translate.
I.E. the programmers of the compiler program define the semantics of the high level languages by using the same high level languages.
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| Chuck |
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 3:05 am Post subject: -34 |
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| The string of definitions could possibly move away from "thing" before starting to loop, but it's more like a tree of definitions and it's unlikely that no branch of it would contain "thing" before looping. |
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 2:17 am Post subject: -35 |
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| Scotty, i doubt it very much that non-circular explanations are possible. After all, verbal explanations (we could use other explanations, but just for a part of the things we try to define) use words, and if we have to define those words, and the words that define the defining words, we would HAVE to get into a loop, since last time i checked the vocabulary was finite... |
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 1:11 am Post subject: -36 |
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Originally posted by Chuck: Thing: (1) A noun that is neither a person nor a place
Noun: The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing...
Another loop! I like your other responses though.
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| Chuck |
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 4:18 pm Post subject: -37 |
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| Thing: (1) A noun that is neither a person nor a place. (2) A bad monster movie. (3) A comic book character. (4) Member of The Addams Family. |
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| VinnyQ |
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 3:52 pm Post subject: -38 |
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a thing is this *waves hands about* thing ... see ... ?
... er ...
~* head explodes *~
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