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i before e except when follows c and :

2008-05-09T12:18:32Z

Weird
Neighbor

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Add a letter to a word

2008-05-09T12:11:24Z

Add an R to evolution...drum roll please...
REvolution

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nice sounding words

2008-05-09T05:44:36Z

I love the sound of the word "continuum", plus it has the double u and is positive and forward looking...

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Aphorisms

2008-05-07T19:53:56Z

To get 2008 under way, anchors aweigh, the Annual Ship slipping its slip, how about sharing some of your favorite pithy remarks? Extra credit for stringing (semi?)-related topics. Thus: Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I should poison your tea!" Winston Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I should drink it." Which might lead to: Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. - Alexander Pushkin

So.... here's a start:

We would rather speak ill of ourselves, than not speak of ourselves at all. -- La Rochefoucauld

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PBR

2008-05-06T20:50:52Z

like the word game
only this one takes it beginning letter from my favorite beer.
i already have a collection of these in my notebook

examples:

potential boink roster
pregnant, blasphemous, and ready
pretty blue revolution

you get the idea...

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Heteronyms in use - or misuse.

2008-05-06T12:21:21Z

A heteronym is, of course a word which has two separate meanings, different pronunciation, but only one spelling.
Using both meanings in the same sentence is fun, but not that difficult once you've got a list - Googled - of hetronyms.

Example: "I have secret fears I would only intimate to my most intimate friends."
(Both words should be in the same language. "The clumsy waiter dropped the pate' on the customers pate." is a stretch.)

How many can be captured in a single sentence? Could be a lot; here's two in one sentence:
"I'd pay a buck or two to see the odd things a buck does when does are in heat."

Obviously there are more pairs to be discovered - how about triplets?
Could a paragraph (making reasonable sense) be written with every sentence containing heteronyms?

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Da boing!

2008-05-05T17:24:43Z

Love hurts with frequency.

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New here

2008-05-01T23:37:37Z

So if I am in a weird mood and make up my own word... will you forgive me if I share it? "smiles"

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Word Game II

2008-05-01T12:24:20Z

A continuation of the thread "Word Game"

the text started going weird....so I thought I would re-post it.

Game is simple...just going through the alphabet taking each letter and writing a three word alliterative phrase...

like say, "Arthur Ashe's Apples" or "Big Boisterous Baboons"

(Some folks also like to bring out the alliteration beyond the three words)

last three from the other board were v, w, and x

I'll post a new one, the Y

Virginia's vestigial virginal vows vetoed Vlad's virulently virile verbal voguing....

wee wenches wobble west willingly

Xavier's xenophobic Xrays.

+++++++++++++

Yesterday's Young Yams

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proactive reaction

2008-05-01T12:22:30Z

Can one react proactively, or proactively react?

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Missing Person - Update

2008-05-01T11:46:18Z

Hi Folks..

Awhile ago, I passed this along...about a Tribe sister who's son Chris has been missing since September.

(Here is the website:http://www.findchris.org/)

There is some news! It is the first lead in the case!

"Today a girl working at a gas station in Cortez, CO says' she can positively identify Chris as a boy that has come in several time, most recently with 2-3 day, trying to buy cigarettes..."

Here's hoping that the good folks in law enforcement can take this lead and finally bring Chris home!

Please send out some good vibes and, if you could, pass this info along to anyone you know in Colorado
and especially in the Cortez area.

Here is a link to a map for Cortez, CO:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cortez,+CO,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

thanks,

Jon

PS - Wendy from the Tribe Net staff has given me permission to cross post

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tell us about your most hated ex

2008-05-01T06:08:06Z

My most hated ex has always been ex-presso. Ugh! It's like nails on a chalkboard!

I heard another one yesterday... ex-scaped, as in, "He ex-scaped police custody."

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a question for anyone who can answer

2008-04-29T16:38:56Z

does anyone here know of any online dictionaries of phrases (NOT words)? thanks in advance.

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New Journal...Conclave: A Journal of Character...Seeks Submissions

2008-04-25T23:33:10Z

Conclave: A Journal of Character is accepting submissions for its inaugural issue, Fall 2008.
We will accept submissions from April 1-July 1, 2008.
www.conclavejournal.com

Conclave is an annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and prose poems; we also print black and white photographs, and excerpts from plays: monologues, scenes, single acts, or one-act plays.

Conclave seeks writing that centers around well-crafted characters—complex and authentic: like Leopold Bloom, Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Hamlet, Miss Havisham, Hannibal Lecter, Hester Prynne, and others. Whether you love them or hate them, these characters are unforgettable and infuse their stories with life beyond the page. Those are the kinds of enduring characters we'd like to have populate the artfully crafted stories in Conclave.

For more information, see submission guidelines on our Web site.

Thank you.
Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Editor

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Abysmal Horror Game

2008-04-22T11:52:12Z

ABC list of abysmal horror

(seems like a prompt ripe for some good humor....)

A...

Allamuchy Township, NJ (just because it is in NJ)

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your most detested bullshit euphemism

2008-04-22T00:51:40Z

"family planning". translation: contraception. hey...CAN'T WE BE MATURE ENOUGH TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD? ARRGHH!!!

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'Alive'

2008-04-21T00:02:44Z

I was wondering what you all thought it means to be 'alive'?

What attributes does something have to have to be considered as possessing 'life'?

I'm sure every one of us could go look it up in the dictionary, but maybe we could stretch even further and encounter creative postulates of this meaning...?

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Abysmal Horror Game II - Mother-In-Law

2008-04-18T14:38:50Z

ABC list of all things "mother-in-law"

Acerated Arrogant Authoritarian Automaton

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Found a new word today

2008-04-18T11:55:07Z

Thegosis: tooth grinding or sharpening

See "Tooth-sharpening behaviour (thegosis) and other causes of wear on sheep teeth in relation to mastication and grazing mechanisms" by D. Every , G. A. Tunnicliffe, and R. G. Every here: http://www.rsnz.org/publish/jrsnz/1998/

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Mission Accomplished anagrams

2008-04-16T19:01:26Z

Fiddled with wordsmith anagram server and Illustrator yesterday

http://wasswasswasswass.blogspot.com/2008/04/mission-accomplished-anagrams.html

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The Phobia List

2008-04-16T12:31:33Z

http://phobialist.com/

looks like 150 for A alone...

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TEST YOUR BRAIN - can anybody speak backwards? looking for a challenger........

2008-04-15T18:08:00Z

hi. just found this tribe and i have a longtime skill that i will soon present to the guiness book of world records.

i can say any word in the english language backwards. instantly. if i can spell it i can say it backwards wthout a second thought. i am also a very good speller so stumping me has proven next to impossible. i have done the entire dictionary from z to a when i first descovered this hidden talent(i was fifteen). i am estimating that with 3 people giving me words at the same time that my record will be set at about 60 in a minute. like i said, instantly.

i am looking for anyone else who can do this or got good enough at it to run (speak backwards) a race against myself so i can qualify for the guiness book. ive done this for 15 years and have yet to run into anyone else who can do it. we could very easily speak without being understood by anyone else. i know its a longshot, but hey, why not try and find you?

if you can say these words backwards without actually reading them backwards, please write to me.

priceless
light
energy
creates
progression
within
cultures

now ask someone a word or ten and see how you do.

thanks for your time

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The word, Abyss

2008-04-15T17:54:40Z

The word abyss means very very very deep hole. Measurements such as ocean depth I think. Or maybe a tunnel. Down deep the earth has a layer of magma, but is anything past this? I always thought this was an interesting study. I doubt there are field trips though.

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Do we all know about this site?

2008-04-05T09:49:32Z

Even if it didn't donate, I'd still be HOOKED!
http://www.freerice.com/

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Word of the day

2008-04-04T15:23:02Z

opsimath (AHP-si-math) a late learner; one who acquires knowledge late in life

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I NEED VOCABULARY HELP

2008-03-31T16:09:47Z

just as moms & dads are called parents, does anyone know an inclusive single-word term for aunts & uncles? what about for nephews & nieces? thanks in advance for your help.

please use the rest of this thread to post vocabulary questions & answers.

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Space

2008-03-31T14:03:21Z

I love to sit and space out on a word, what it sound like, what it means and what it reminds me of.
I make up my own words into putting them into sentences to create mass gibberish.
I love to free write very short stories of maybe just a paragraph or two, with free flowing words, sensical or not.
Language is a virus.
I do love it

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Shakespeare goes digital (X-post)

2008-03-26T20:01:00Z

Why x-posted? It's Shake-freakin-speare!!!

From Reuters via Yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080326/tc_nm/britain_shakespeare_digital_dc

A U.S. and British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641.

The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC have joined forces to download their collections, building on the work of the British Library which digitized its collection of quarto editions in 2004.

In the absence of surviving manuscripts, the quartos -- Shakespeare's earliest printed editions -- offer the closest known evidence of what Shakespeare might actually have written, and what appeared on the early modern English stage.

The project is designed to make all of the quartos, many of which are only accessible to scholars, available to the wider public.

The process of downloading the quartos will begin next month and take a year to complete.

Online visitors will be able to compare images side-by-side, lay one facsimile on top of the other, search plays and mark and tag the texts.

As well as highlighting more minor differences between copies of the same quarto, the digital database will also make it easier to study the often wide discrepancies between quartos, including some of Shakespeare's most famous lines.

"There will be countless new ways for scholars, teachers, and students to examine the quarto texts, particularly of 'Hamlet'," said Folger director Gail Kern Paster.

"You find out all sorts of things -- about how the copies went through the press, and also about the printing process," she added.

Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and collaborated on several more between about 1590 and 1613. He died in 1616.

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Spring springing up

2008-03-25T12:52:22Z

Hi Word Freaks,

In honor of the Spring Equinox today, here's something for those of us who may enjoy a simple alphabetical thread of words associated with Spring.

For "A", I'm starting with

April Fools

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new favorite word

2008-03-25T08:09:30Z

a word has finally replaced superfluous as my favorite word...

unmoored

nautically speaking: a ship released of all but one anchor...
but i heard it used to describe a person... wow deep stirring!

anyone else have any new favorite words as of late?

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The word, Entropy

2008-03-19T14:17:12Z

I'm pretty sure this means that something or some concept will never make money. Or something on the market that cannot be marketed. What are some signs of Entropy? Real cheap AA batteries that are old in mass quantities?

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Punk Rock Band Name Game

2008-03-18T10:33:24Z

Anyone up for this?

Take some weird phrase and turn it into a possible name for a punk rock band.

My friend sent me a funny note, and had the phrase in it: "like Katherine Hepburn making angry love"

so that became the punk rock band name: Katherine Hepburn's Angry Love

I guess it could morph into a phrase off the leader's name....like "Johnny Rotten and The Katherine Hepburns"

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the what is WHAT?

2008-03-14T19:43:40Z

has anyone else seen these Honda ads on TV or on tribe?
http://wordfreaks.tribe.net/photos/cc40174e-6c8a-4258-8876-649bb4ba4e05

seriously, what the hell does that even mean? is that even English? is it supposed to be some English-as-a-second-language joke?
this not only makes me never want to buy a Honda, but also makes me want to personally slap everyone at the ad agency and the Honda corp.

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Word Freak bumperstrickers

2008-03-14T04:21:39Z

Saw one tonight while driving home:

MR TDS

Bet he doesn't know how much!

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Elyse Sewell

2008-03-10T13:38:44Z

Some of you may remember Elyse from Cycle 1 of America's Next Top Model. The rest of you may wonder what the hell I'm doing bringing up such a ridiculous and gimmicky "reality" show in a Word Freaks tribe.

Elyse is, and has always been, forthright, articulate, and hilarious. Not only did she call out Miss J (ANTM's queeny runway coach) as being a "shit slice," she also has an amazing blog that details her adventures traveling and modeling around the world, most recently in Hong Kong and Korea.

Take this:
"...I woke up at 4:30am, sweltering, due to the erstwhile napper's thermostat fuckwithery..."

Seriously. "erstwhile napper's thermostat fuckwithery."

Pure poetry.

http://elysesewell.livejournal.com/

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play and heal the world. woah!

2008-03-07T00:20:13Z

www.freerice.com

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Words for those who hurt us

2008-03-06T08:47:40Z

Ok, so a friend recently disappointed me with stupidity which directly affected me.

What are some words you use to describe such people?

Let's get creative a la good ole William S as well as base like 2 Live Crew.

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word mashups

2008-03-06T05:36:48Z

I find that often when speaking my brain is trying to select from a set of words and can't choose quickly enough, or moves too fast and merges them together in a new concept while no one else got to see that logic train pass by. ;) The result is these kind of word mashups.

Sometimes this goes badly. Like the time I meant to tell a co-worker that he looked nice all dressed up in his suit, but my brain couldn't decide between "spiffy" and "snazzy" and kept bouncing back and forth... spiffy... snazzy... spiffy... snazzy... spiffy... snazzy... and it came out:
"wow, you look spazzy"
*cringes*

Sometimes it results in new words of the onomatopoeia variety or better words to describe the situation. Such as my brain salad concoction that spit out the phrase:
"that's so Orson Wellian"
...not "Orwellian", but the drama of Orson Wells with the futuristic forboding of George Orwell. ;)

Does anyone else have this "problem"? :)

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This just in....

2008-03-05T21:59:02Z

On "Who wants to be a Millionaire", they asked this question about Grey's Anatomy...one of the answers was "A vile of anthrax". Friends & neighbors, no kidding that was how they spelled "vial"
Funny? Sad? Or just tragic?

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Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies

2008-03-04T19:13:31Z

I love The Onion.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/idiom_shortage_leaves_nation_all

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kreative spellrz uv thuh whirld youknight!

2008-03-01T15:57:25Z

thatz uhbout ahll eye hadd tew saey. eye khant thynk ov eeneythink createve tew shair wif yall, but eye luv mie selph aneyway!

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Over heard in my Hubby's office...

2008-02-28T20:06:52Z

"Who's your boss at?"

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2008 List of Banished Words

2008-02-28T08:21:35Z

If you haven't yet seen this, I figured this tribe would appreciate it. :)

Lake Superior State University 2008 List of Banished Words:
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

(what and why: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/ )

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what do you know about dry wall?

2008-02-27T03:49:48Z

So, I was driving to school today and I saw a dry wall service truck. It had the name of the company, like Joe's Dry Wall Services or something and below it said, "totally screwed application." So, I'm wondering is this a joke or is a proper reference to the type of dry wall installation? Either way, it sounds pretty funny.

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How to make it last, "long-term"?

2008-02-24T21:17:44Z

Should the one in the relationship with the resources say, "all systems go", lets spend and drive and be merry? Or, should he/she calculate some misery time in there, so the relationship experiences more ups and downs to join or "fuse" the two people more?

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Instant change or, Taper into a new thing?

2008-02-24T06:23:51Z

What do you think is better for a personality?

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help with spelling

2008-02-19T16:27:58Z

Today I was writing on Tribe and looking for the right way to end my post. Ending with "godspeed," was close to what I wanted, but then it occurred to me that invoking feminine divinity would be more appropriate for the particular context. It seemed that writing "godessspeed" should be correct, but since I couldn't remember ever seeing three of the same letter in a row before, I went with "goddess-speed." But that doesn't seem right, since "godspeed" is spelled without a hyphen.

I think I might want to use this word again. How should I spell it?

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FORTE: Here's one that I am bginning to be hesitant to pronounce correctly, because so many use it wrongly, the correct form sounds incorrect

2008-02-19T03:46:06Z

a talent of yours is called a forte, right? Example: (one of her major FORTES is playing soccer), and most pronounce the E, so it sounds like "fortay. " That is incorrect. The correct pronunciation is "fort," just like a building for defense. But so many say this wrongly, opinions please. Do we work to educate (I'm a math teacher, but help out with spelling, grammar, et al whenever I can) or accept that this one is so far gone that the mutable nature of language will render the correct pronunciation obsolete over time? I've incorporated the corrected pronunciation into my
speech when it comes up, but it always sounds alien on my tongue and invariably provokes this very discussion.

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forget your 50 cent words

2008-02-15T07:42:27Z

there's some that'll cost you 375,000
http://community.comcast.net/comcastportal/blog/article?blog.id=Lights_Camera_Spill&message.id=27&jump=true#M27

of all the horrible things that are shared and
spoken of by the media and the only thing
that deserves a fine are
four-letter words...

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words of prejudice ...isms?

2008-02-13T14:09:21Z

Greetings word freaks. Thinking caps on.

In addition to ageism, racism, and sexism, are there concise terms to portray prejudice against other attributes such as religion, sexual preference, disability, or any other category you can think of?

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Please:)

2008-02-12T05:01:54Z

Hey trying to win this Just click on link each view counts...if I win I can visit my family:) yay! Thank You!!
http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/Blogs/BlogView.aspx?bid=21594&scid=222
http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/PhotosAlbums/PhotoView.aspx?picid=316741_24050304&pid=315682&scid=215

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Can people start a shared account?

2008-02-11T19:28:40Z

For example, what if 50 people had the same screen name and password and didn't stay logged in for very long each time. It would be a funny aberation. Maybe someone can start this account and report the password so some people here can get started. Or, is that unethical?

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Rhopalic sentence game

2008-02-11T08:50:49Z

Rhopalic - Of text in which each word contains one more letter or syllable than the one preceding it.

This word derives from the Greek rhopalos, for a club or cudgel which, like most of its kind, is thicker towards one end than the other. Though the English word is first recorded only at the end of the seventeenth century, the technique is almost certainly much older. It is commonly applied to poetry whose words advance each time by one syllable, or sometimes one foot, but it can also apply to prose.

The classic example of the latter form was created by Dmitri Borgmann: “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing in-decipherability, transcendentalises intercommunications’ incompre-hensibleness”, which manages the difficult feat of reaching a word of twenty letters. (David Crystal, who quotes this in his book Language Play, remarks: “It would be ultraconscientiousness to go further”. Even overintellectualisation, perhaps.)

In poetry, such wordplay has also been described as 'snowball verse' and 'wedge verse'.

Who wants to give it a try?

I'll attempt syllabic formulations, exaggerating super-unproductive ultra-confabulations.

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Winter Words

2008-02-08T20:22:02Z

Hi Word Freaks,

In honor of the Winter Solstice today, I'm starting a new thread for any words you associate with Winter. This is to be alphabetical, and I'll start with:

Advent

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Have you heard the speak and spell techno song?

2008-02-08T19:30:22Z

I think there are more than one. I used to have one of those, beleive it or not. Name the song and artist.

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Sliding Scale Fees

2008-02-07T20:12:22Z

So I chair a Board of Directors for a nonprofit that provides reduced rate counseling and psychotherapy. When the organization describes its services, it refers to a sliding fee scale.

So is it correctly referred to as a "sliding fee scale?" Or a "sliding scale fee?"

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Doing well?

2008-02-07T16:53:10Z

I do not remember getting definitive about this oft asked question:

I meet someone on the street and they ask how I am. It is a good day, so which is the most correct response?

A) I'm good.
B) I'm feeling good.
C) I'm well.
D) I'm doing well.
E) Fuck off.

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Obscure Words Game

2008-02-06T17:33:20Z

Obscure Words Game

Another game thread if anyone is interested...

running through the alphabet A - Z with the most obscure words you can come up with...

A

amoebocyte - (having the form of am amoeba\)

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Proper English in the heading

2008-02-05T23:04:53Z

Is it okay if I do my posts with proper English in the heading? But, in the field text, I use broken English, slang-like expressions, sometimes caps, sometimes not, and so on? This will give a feel of how I think and how I want a reaction to be. Or, should I use perfect English, so a guy that just got done with an html page can come in and enjoy things?

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petrolatum?

2008-02-03T23:54:17Z

Okay, here's a new word for me that I discovered in my nursing textbook. Most ordinary people would say petroleum jelly or just Vaseline, since we have that lovely habit of coopting brand names for generic items - Kleenex, Scott towel, Jacuzzi, etc.

But is "petrolatum" really that common? Is it just a medical thing? Or is it more common in British or Canadian English? I'm very curious.

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which would you use?

2008-02-03T19:15:28Z

I was reading my textbook and found mention of "lacto-ovovegetarians." I have never heard it this way. I have always used "ovo-lacto." And I was vegetarian for many years and was in that hippie scene and everyone I knew used the latter. Has anyone ever heard of it used the first way? It just sounds so strange to me.

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A Word in Cartography that means...(help, please!)

2008-02-02T10:17:03Z

There is an old trick that mapmakers used to do: they would insert a tiny, nonexistent feature of some kind into their map, so that if the same feature were to appear on another company's maps, the tricky cartographers could prove copyright infringement.

There is a word for this kind of fictional cartographer's device, but I can't recall what it is.

Would anybody happen to know, or have advice on how to search?

I've Googled "map, glossary", some variations thereof, etc. , but had no luck.

...it is a pretty archaic term, I guess.

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Missing Person

2008-02-01T23:41:17Z

Bonnie, the woman who's son has gone missing has

started a tribe to help her raise money to hire a PI..

http://tribes.tribe.net/findchristribe

and here is the general website:

www.findchris.org/

thanks for your help.

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the sequence of chats and posts

2008-01-26T20:23:19Z

the chat one has a lot of hi goodbye meet greet age location. if it gets special, one can expect a link. the post blog thing is more interesting and is special if it does not deviate from the subject matter, what the poster came up with. i like seeing the chat night proficient working on some posts so people become more literate and the world wide web is more interesting.

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Tawny and Cat-like, or, Elegant and Deliberate

2008-01-26T18:32:16Z

Which combination do you prefer when crossing a street? As a driver, what do you prefer to see? What causes more space and right-of-way for the person?

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Please

2008-01-25T05:32:29Z

Writers strikers find a resolution because NYC neurosis just isn't cutting it for me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAeYTC_uY54

Burning what?

Neurosis that's the word

Maybe it's Grease

WTHDIK

Cool K and P

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a new word related tribe

2008-01-23T09:41:53Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/wordwonks

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sesquipedalian

2008-01-19T16:09:45Z

just found this word online

means long-worded

I thought it just needed a topic of its own

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the princes panties

2008-01-17T21:41:50Z

There was once a prince who acted strangely in that
He thought life was stupid and it was for him so
He made up a world in which he liked the things we liked
But he had different reasons why he liked them

He liked butter for its color
He would order toast and color
Waitresses, confused would utter
Sir, I've never heard of toast and color

He'd get angry and begin to choke them
The law would come, and they'd arrest and book him
So his life was a mess of trouble
Still he kept it up

He had dogs, a hundred cocker spaniels and he
Called them panties, 'cause they did that mostly, and he
Did not care at all if they would bark and fetch sticks
Run and jump, roll over, and play dead tricks

No, he liked them only for their panting
So he would run them ragged, but one day they got fed up
And chased the prince right up against the fence
And the prince was eaten by his panties

by mason williams

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If you could change any singular aspect of our world, what might that be?

2008-01-17T17:15:42Z

Do not follow someone else's path. Create your own path and lead through a living example.

http://www.hexagram44.wordpress.com

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Funniest Superstitions

2008-01-16T21:46:29Z

Here's one: To cure congestion, eat cat meat.

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With the utmost respect in mind...

2008-01-16T19:12:20Z

It occurred to me today that there is a word that I use VERY rarely, and that is because I'm not exactly certain what it describes.
It is often slung throughout popular dialogue; I should seemingly be able to guess according to context.
I was wondering what you all thought:

What does "sexy" mean~

When we say a person is "sexy", what is that quality about them that we are describing?

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"female chauvinist sow."

2008-01-16T18:55:01Z

father fucker
daughter of a bitch
son of a bastard
daughter of a bastard

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a confession

2008-01-16T18:52:09Z

i was in the car on the way home the other day, listening to npr, and they were interviewing an expert on the taliban. the expert had a pakistani (i think) accent. he was discussing the rise of the talibahn in pakistan, and every time he said "pakistani taliban", i burst into uncontrolled giggles. say it out loud over and over. it's a silly collection of syllables, made ever so much more silly by this gentleman's very serious tone.

maybe i am a bad person.

but some words, said with certain accents, just sound silly, even if they really really aren't.

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Aberration

2008-01-16T18:28:50Z

In an article, I used the word aberration. An aberration is a deviation from the normal pattern to cause slight problems. Think of an aberration.

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Publishers?

2008-01-16T03:33:45Z

Forgive me the crosspost. I'm trying to help my Uncle, a retired professor of English, to find a publisher for his memoirs. He would prefer not to self publish. Would anyone have a connection in the publishing world to share?

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Hahahahahaaaaaa!

2008-01-11T20:22:28Z

Thank you for correcting my English which stinks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yCcRxUf6wI

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Oh good Lord.

2008-01-10T03:46:53Z

I know the internet is making us all stupid, but did I really just read the phrase, "born and bread"?

Please tell me I didn't.

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The Best Riddle

2008-01-06T21:48:23Z

I dont relish in the comforts of gravity. I dont dabble in the art of supposed reality....my passion lies in the forgotten. Nothing ever dies, it only passes from our waking notions of the parallel. It is not a universe of which I speak of, though just as vast....analogous membrane, brother of DNA.

The best riddle is that said clearly. Dont inject interjected preconceptions.

It's the alchemy of mental space, the purification of efficiency. Organized organic organs pulsing with the blood of the intangible. Biological poetry versing sensory allusions. That which we call art is nothing more than a puzzle hinting at untapped potential that lurks in the shadows of perception. Test your awareness.

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Happy New Year!

2008-01-04T05:25:17Z

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hope you all had a good New Year's and wishing everyone

new joy, hope and spirituality in the coming year!

My favorite image of Happiness is from Peanuts, when

Snoopy is dancing to some music and he's staring up at

the ceiling with a big grin on his face!

http://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/images/snoopy_dance.jpg

May All Our Hearts Dance With That Joy and Freedom!

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MORE THAN A RESOLUTION

2007-12-31T22:50:56Z

More Than A Resolution

Must we resolve what we are already doing? To resolve means we haven't reached our intention, or, that we are creating a new intention; it means we are striving to meet and reach an ideal.

The ideal we hold is why we resolve to change our actions, thoughts, and hence current situation; this is accomplished through an accumulated force of will meant to propel us in a new direction. Today propel onto a new path and internalize the resolution; doing so means it fuses with your every waking and sleeping moment.

Resolve only until it becomes a part of your nature then drop the resolution.

More than a resolution,
the intention must be to change the very nature of our being, therefore, making us congruent with whom we strive to be.

Be.

Resolve to accept yourself for who you are. Remember: no one is ever perfect. Accept the dynamism of change. Experience a growth which cannot be calculated. Situations do not remain the same and as the environment around us shifts, we must open to transform the resolutions once needed… for even they shall one day become obsolete or counter-productive.

Resolve to not be disappointed, overly critical or difficult upon what you do and have done.
If we fix upon a goal and don't reach it we lead ourselves to disappointment.

Dynamic resolutions assist in preventing this occurrence.
Static resolutions do not.

Accept all the good and the bad... accept that which you cherish and that which you despise. Move into a space of acceptance; release from self-judgment. Guilt is not healthy, instead embrace change and create alternatives. Move past the limiting idea of failure. Move into a constant state of embracing every moment... and then become open... to all experiences... open to all that arises and passes.

Look at yourself. Discover your fears. Understand your faults. Reach for the zenith and don't be afraid to fall. Fall down. Stand back up. Embrace falling, it is necessary to learn walking.

Challenge even your resolutions, hence reaching awareness of self.

Avoid causing the self pain by sticking to a resolution that may no longer be relevant. As the conscious intention penetrates into your being, resolve to not blindly cling to resolutions without understanding their meaning; instead, embrace your true nature through awareness of who you are... the change sought is dependent on self-realization.

The change is dependent upon acceptance,
internalizing it so that it becomes more than just a resolution.

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:HAWAH:
www.everlutionary.net
www.myspace.com/everlutionary

http://www.graphicmail.com/rwcode/subscribe.asp?SiteID=11598

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environmentalist-racist

2007-12-30T18:12:20Z

I was wondering. Someone who works with the environment, will be called an environmentalist in the field of environmentalism.

My question is, how come, if a white person and a black person were standing side by side, if i were to identify the difference in there race, I couldnt say that i was being racist without the meaning of racism being a negative thing.

Why does the word racism and racist have a negative meaning and not a nutural meaning the same way environmentalism has.

Would it not do us better to take the negative meanings out of nutural words, like to identify the physical difference between the sexes, i feel i should be able to say i was being sexist. but according to the agreed upon definition of sexism, we projest a negative meaning onto what i feel should be nutural words.

Any comments?

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Merry Christmas

2007-12-25T10:06:46Z

Merry Christmas!

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/graphics/large/christ_blessing_haydon.jpg

Have A Nice Holiday Everyone!

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Posting with type errors?

2007-12-24T12:02:48Z

i've noticed some sensitivity about this. i used to be this way a little, in fact i once stammered over a published item with a lazy mis-print. it does not bug me much at all when it comes to the blog post phenomenon. i think of it as casual expression that often does hit the nail on the head where other communication missed. how do type errors make you feel? its time to let it out.

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jumbles

2007-12-21T04:21:59Z

I like words that, with slight alteration become something else..

thinking about the "King Lear" aspects of human relationships, loyalties and betrayals...I've always like that the difference between "friend" and "fiend" is only one letter.

+++

After having an annoying session with my therapist, the universe offered me some humor. It was then that I noticed that "therapist" spells out as "the rapist"

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want some brain food?

2007-12-20T21:07:32Z

www.freerice.com/

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phrases that bug

2007-12-20T20:46:50Z

"not so much"

"no worries"

"hells yeah"

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beautiful writing inspired by you. . . written by someone else

2007-12-19T14:55:35Z

i'm intrigued to hear
what word or words have once been strung
by inspiration

devoted to

y o u

that shifted every molecule
inside the frame

that inspired you
and opened a place
never the same

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007

2007-12-18T16:05:31Z

From www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm

Thousands of you took part in the search for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007, and the vast majority of you chose a small word that packs a pretty big punch. The word you've selected hasn't found its way into a regular Merriam-Webster dictionary yet—but its inclusion in our online Open Dictionary, along with the top honors it's now been awarded—might just improve its chances. This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ("leet," or "elite") speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double "o" in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team"—again stemming from the gaming community.

Merriam-Webster's #1 Word of the Year for 2007 based on votes from visitors to our Web site:

1. w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay"

Example: "w00t! I won the contest!"

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Verbal abuse...

2007-12-16T13:57:26Z

...or "malapropisms" if ya want a fancy word for it. They amuse me.

I have a special weakness for mangled cliches. Some favorites:

You're beating your head against a dead horse.

Does the pope shit in the woods?

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
(Sounds like something a foreign relations specialist in the Bush administration might say...)

From another thread found here:

dead meat in the water

I fell for that hook line and barrel

He thinks she is the best thing on sliced wheels.

You've buttered your bread, now you've got to sleep in it.

Others?

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funny mispronunciations

2007-12-11T22:14:01Z

I'm a nursing student and my professor was discussing the different types of anemia in our last class. I just want to scream because she keeps pronouncing "pernicious" as "per-nik-u-ous." She has it spelled correctly in the lecture notes, she just can't say it correctly. It's taking all of my self-control not to correct her! Ugh!

That's even worse than the folks who say "res-PIE-ra-tory" rather than respiratory, argh!

Of course, the very worse was my Fundamentals prof who was always talking about diagnosises.

And to think, I'm actually paying money for these people to teach me!

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What to do?

2007-12-04T23:42:18Z

Probably the only reason I am literate is that I tried to understand every word in the novels I've read. There are times when I've came upon a word that I know not. The laziness factor is what I'm dealing with. Most of my reading took place in a laying position. What to do? If I have my dictionary close, I just don't like it bedside. Should I keep reading and dog-ear the page? How much of my eyes do I want to spend here? If you can, please relate some reading quirks you have such as this.

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Over-worked words

2007-12-03T17:23:51Z

Finally, local Pacific west coast media is catching on that “begs the question” to mean “prompts a question” shows abysmal ignorance, and editors are crossing it out of articles and scripts.

But while still deeply involved in attempts to print and air “at the end of the day” to mean “ultimately” as many times as possible, local news media have found a new trite darling with “went missing” and “gone missing” to indicate disappeared.

I realize it’s an idiom borrowed from the British, but it’s becoming as overused here as was “indeed” during the Princess Di hype. I’m waiting for “gone walkabout” to become the media’s new best friend.

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machine translations

2007-12-02T03:07:42Z

this being the first experience of the alleged phenomena
termed 'machine-translation' i began to become confused.
not being able at the beginning to decipher the first cause
of my confusion i then did notice, though not instantaneously,
the square in the top space to the right side.
it was at this time that i became aware of the reason of
my stated perplexity.
the article i was reading was first written on another tongue
and then 'machine-translated' into english....

my head started turning very quickly with many possible
consequences...

http://ngoclub.org/news.php?extend.30

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Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-23T05:34:05Z

Wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving.

take care all,

Jon

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Fishes?

2007-11-19T15:39:33Z

I was listening to NPR today and they were talking about how bluegill in Japan are totally taking over, but they were a gift to the crown prince of Japan when he asked the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago for each fish found in IL when he visited in 1960.

Anyway, the "fishes" were given as a gift of the US government, according to the lady who maintains the archives of the aquarium. The "fishes" were then released into a lake in Japan, where some took off (bluegill) but others didn't impact the native species so catastrophically. Now bluegill is banned there and the native species are encouraged to repopulate. Apparently the bluegill there are like zebra mussels here. Scary.

So after the lady from the aquarium was off the line, the fish were just fish again. I'm confused now. Are fish just fish, or can fish be fishes? I mean, wouldn't the aquarium lady know the plural of fish?

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Pronunciation of place names

2007-11-15T05:59:14Z

I have a pet peeve about the pronunciation of place names. To my mind, the only correct pronuncization is the one used by the people who live in that place. There are limits--as an American, I'm not going to start saying "France" the way the french would. But in general, it really bothers me to hear people mispronounce place names. Accordingly, let me offer a few that I have validated lately with natives:

--Barre (VT)= "BARE-ry"
--Newfoundland = "new-fund-LAND"
--Myanmar = "ME-yan-mah"
--Nevada (IA) = "ne-VAY-da"
--Edinburgh (UK) = "ED-in-bur-uh"

Any other contributions are welcome. Yes, I know what a total geek I am.

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Which way does the wind blow?

2007-11-09T22:59:59Z

I've always been confused about the way weather reporters talk about the wind. When they say "north wind," does that mean the wind blows from the north or to the north? I heard a pilot describe today the "northerly winds." Which I assumed is wind blowing towards the north, and then on further thought, couldn't decide still if a northerly wind came from the north or blew towards the north.

Which is it?

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oxymorons

2007-10-30T16:48:35Z

ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined

Government Organization
Alone together
Personal Computer
Silent Scream
Living Dead
Same difference
Taped live
Plastic Glasses
Tight Slacks
Peace Force
Pretty Ugly
Head Butt
Working Vacation
Tax Return
Virtual Reality
Dodge Ram
Work Party
Jumbo Shrimp

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Become a part of "bAbeL - art project"

2007-10-30T15:37:54Z

Dear brothers and sisters,

i study art therapy in Germany and work on the arty part of my diploma at the moment - and i invite you to support my work “ babel“!
Babel is about the try to cancel the moment of disintegration, it is about identity, community,structure and the basic needs of human beings and it is about you as well, when you join this project;
Please send me one article of your clothing, which you don`t need
anymore (it doesn`t matter if there is a mark on it, a cut in it, the
zipper is not working anymore etc.) and a word (in your language, a
word, which you like, which you don`t like, which you use often or
never, it can be a name, too) to this adress :

Sandra Becker
Hunscheidtstraße 162
44789 Bochum
Germany

in case you like to send me more material - like little messages,
infomation about you, your life, your country,the article of clothing
( maybe there is a story about it - you never liked to wear it, it was
a gift, you wore it in an important moment) - i will be pleased about
it.
my plan is to put all together in a new way - so that there will be one dress and one poem at the end for one performance/ film/installation, but it is not clear how it will be exactly - at least the most important thing depends on you. maybe the dress and the poem will go on a journey again, maybe they will come back to you, maybe you get a message from them, maybe you won´t see them again, maybe....the ideas become more and more with every package i get from you what ever will happen - i let you know. and be sure; whenever you give something - you get something.
the artwork will be shown at the diploma exhibition of the FH Ottersberg (Germany) on march 21th 2008.
you will find a documentation on my tribe-blog.

i hope that it will be possible to support me,
looking forward to get a message from you,

Become a part of babel !
sandruschka

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