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Guardian
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 02:33
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quote:*grin* If I presume that 'klinen' should be 'klinken', then that means: 'door knob cleaning assistent to a captain of the steamboat company on the river Danube'. And it is very correctly one word. -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 | Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00 |
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By Committee
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 04:51
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Glenelg in South Australia is a really nice place to visit, though definitely not for surfing. Posts: 2242 | Registered: Saturday, April 10 2004 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 14:48
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 15:08
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please, linespaces. *watches his browser shatter with horizontal scrollbars* -------------------- A Sucaran Child is standing here. You say, "hello" The small child looks at Preserver Aldous wide-eyed and awed. Posts: 269 | Registered: Friday, July 19 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 15:31
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You'll notice that I already posted tryptophan synthetase A without posting the entire thing, which still isn't a word. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalia is another construct, but it contains the real long (though not record-breaking) word sesquipedalian, which means either a long word or tending to use such words. I've seen semihemidemisemiquaver more often (it's relative...) than quasi-, and hemidemisemiquaver is the only one I've ever seen used seriously (old manuscript), butyes, it's a real word. On the other hand, it doesn't quite count, because you can keep adding halving prefixes until your musicians quit on you. —Alorael, who has played exactly one piece with 128th notes. It was not especially fast, because the rest of the piece was extraordinarily slow, but it was still fun to see the notes and how many bars can be crammed into one place. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 16:05
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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Didn't you watch Seasame Street? Posts: 484 | Registered: Monday, May 27 2002 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 18:35
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quote:Well, it literally means "having one and a half feet", the idea being that the words to which you're applying it would be one and a half feet long if written out. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 18:54
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I really want that to have some sort of metrical origin, but it can't possibly. How disappointing. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 19:48
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Let's not start taking English too literally. Then we'd have to worry about the implications of rape and rapture having the same etymological root. Is the Bible hiding something? —Alorael, who is now getting distinct Cthulhu/Arctic feelings from the New Testament. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 19:55
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It's not the NT's fault! It was written in Greek. It was those darn Latin-speaking Romans who made rapture and rape both come from rapio. Then again, it was the Greeks who decided to turn nearly every vowel sound into I, so they're linguistically culpable in other ways. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, December 20 2005 21:00
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Oh, sure. Now you're claiming that translation can introduce changes that call the absolute, verbatim veracity of the Bible into question. It's too much! —Alorael, who simpli can't biliive that anione could make such a mistake. It contridicts the will of G_d! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Councilor
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written Friday, December 23 2005 14:09
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I'm glad I'm limiting words in Jahas to just four syllables. Except maybe for technology, medicine, and science, but I'm not going to use those, so I don't have to make them up. !eja amaj ekan! What? Don't you make up your own languages too? -Dikiyoba Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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