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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
25 idiot words
10 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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These people are idiots. Nobody and I mean nobody outside the ghetto or the Ozark hills makes those mistakes accidentally. To further prove my point that they are idiots, another article they have posted argues that children shouldn't have to learn how to write in cursive. They think priting from K-12 is the reasonable approach to teaching a kid to write. I'm astonish, flabbergasted and outraged at the very idea.
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3/27/07, 4:40 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I disagree with two entries:
"To flounder" means to struggle or flail about ineffectively. The crew of a ship that's foundered may indeed flounder.
And the original "duct tape" was, in fact, "duck tape", invented by Johnson & Johnson, currently manufactured by Duck Products, a division of Henkel. It was named for its ability to shed water. -
3/27/07, 5:10 PM
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Anonymous said...
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ANON...I agree with you about the cursive. My impression about it's usefulness has been that with it you can write much faster even while writing neatly and carefully.It would be nerve wracking as hell to do everything in print,and I actually like to see writing that shows individual personality...I write with a pretty neat hand,but if I could only use print,I would become frustrated and sloppy.
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3/27/07, 5:18 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Priest to boy..."ten hail Mary's & ten Our Father's..and lay off the oats and hay"
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3/27/07, 5:20 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Until very recently I thought that tentative was supposed to be tenative. Every time someone said tentative, I thought "what a retard!"
I've practically forgotten cursive, since when I want to make sure I can be read, I print. That probably makes me look kind of retarded though. -
3/27/07, 8:21 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I thought it was " all in tents and porpises
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3/27/07, 10:16 PM
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MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...
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acumen
a·cu·men /əˈkyumən, ˈækyə-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-kyoo-muhn, ak-yuh-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
[Origin: 1525–35; < L acūmen sharpness, equiv. to acū- (s. of acuere to sharpen; see acute) + -men n. suffix]
Not to be mistaken for the southern drawl reference to someone about to reach climax during sexual intercourse, ie. "I'm a cummin'" -
3/27/07, 10:19 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Long ago, a friend of mine while in med school had to take a medical history in a clinic as part of his training.
The patient's husband was deceased, and when queried about the cause of his death, she said he "died from Smilin' Mighty Jesus." After gently probing further, Dave realized her husband died of spinal meningitus.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
3/27/07, 11:05 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I've been guilty of the 'flounder' and the 'a ways to go' miscues. Sigh.
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3/28/07, 7:38 AM
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Kim du Toit said...
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My personal un-favorite:
"Chaise lounge", which doesn't mean anything.
It's "chaise longue" (long chair). -
3/28/07, 3:42 PM
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