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Gedechtnichtkirchie! (Sp? I only heard it said.)
Think of it this way: the core word is "dobie"; add to that the prefix "en" such as enforce, enrage, empower; add to that the adverb form and get "endobily". It means "in a way of becoming a dobie but not at own (i.e., thread's) choice".
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I think when you make up words, other people have to get it. Like potlucky, my own illustrious creation. Everyone gets potlucky at one time or another.
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Except that en- turns a noun or adjective into a verb, but -ly turns an adjective into an adverb. You're combining affixes that don't work together.
I hate to say it, Jonathan, but you're making me wonder about this whole training-you-to-be-my-apprentice thing.
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Fascinating read, JB. I had heard of Dvorak, though not much more beyond that. Now I get to be a smartass whenever someone brings up the Dvorak keyboard again.
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I punctuate it just as if it were quotes, in the method I chose to accept.
And "*...*" are not ellipses. When I write "*thinking*" I do not mean "...thinking...", I mean an action. The fact that you enclose it somehow gives it the right to be punctuated properly.
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You could try using words instead of an agglomeration of typographical characters. I thought you were referring to the ellipsis points and not the asterisks.
I say "Ha!" to your willy-nilly punctuation rules.
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I do not accept Webster Dictionary. The fact that you Americans take liberty does not mean I lower myself to your standards.
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I say "Ha!" to your willy-nilly punctuation rules.
quote: I said to him "get lost."
Who ever heard of such crap?! And since when can you spell "practice" (the NOUN) with an "s"?! You people are pathetic sometimes.
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Hey, I didn't call you anything remotely associated with Nazism. *Thinks back to the days of the bitter fighting with AntiCool over the subject.*
Not that it is justification - but the weak spot was shown.
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I didn't say that you did, Jonathan. I'm referring to your obsessive and ignorant prejudice against American English despite your claims of being such a language guru.
Porter: To the death?
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For the circumstances I'm in - yes. Other than that, I do my best of understanding. And yet, when reading American English it catches the eye differently, and it slows me down. I'm not blaming you for using it, as you wre taught it, rather I'm critical of the original notion.
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Jonathan: See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. There is nothing inherently wrong with American English and nothing inherently right with British English. They're simply different.
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"Ich haben in mir hertz das urge to construct mein own sprachens words." Ich habe den Drang in meinem Hertz, um meine eigene Sprachwoerte aufzubauen.
"Enschuldigensibitte, wo ist der dome?" Entschuldigung, bitte, wo ist der Dom?
"Chokalade Kuken" Schokoladenkuchen -Germans don't believe in having two words when you can ram them togeather and make one.
"Gedechtnichtkirchie!", Haloed? I have no idea what you're shooting for. Maybe Gedaechtniskirche, which would be a church that's kept around for memory's sake. I think some of the cities in Germany have old, bombed-out churches that they refer to as Gedaechtniskirchen.
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Oh, so now my heated criticism won't go? *Bangs on wall, crashes building down.* Fine, I'm sorry.
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I applied to the order. I saw my application on the net 3 months, attached to an article titled: "Grammar Nazi's Have a Gas, Die Laughing"
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I am stepping in and imposing a temporary word ban here. No one in this thread will be permitted to use the word Nazi, or any derivation thereof, for the next 231 posts.
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Ooh, are we shouting colors now? GREEN! ORANGE! PINK! BLUE! YELLOW! BROWN! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, BROWWWWWN!Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Um, ok . . . except for the fact that Annie has red hair, and it went with the McCarthyist comment . . .
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