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« Reply #325 on: April 29, 2008, 09:56:23 AM »
What's "insiment" supposed to mean?
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« Reply #326 on: April 29, 2008, 10:48:28 AM »
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to mean "insistent" or something.
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« Reply #327 on: April 29, 2008, 11:50:36 AM »
My boobs are quite literate, thank-you-very-much.
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« Reply #328 on: April 29, 2008, 01:07:34 PM »
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« Reply #329 on: April 29, 2008, 01:15:55 PM »
I don't believe that they are.
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« Reply #330 on: April 29, 2008, 01:36:06 PM »
I can't even read braille with my fingers.
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« Reply #331 on: April 29, 2008, 02:28:59 PM »
I think now would be an appropriate time for this guy:

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« Reply #332 on: April 29, 2008, 02:30:33 PM »
I haven't been in this forum for months, and this is the conversation I just happen to walk in on.
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« Reply #333 on: April 30, 2008, 08:34:22 AM »
Overheard at work last night:

Zoraida:  "I'm going to the vending machine to get sneakers.  Do you want something?"

Carmen:  "They have sneakers?  OK -- get me sneakers, too."

Zoraida:  "Esther, do you also want sneakers?"

Me:  "No.  I'm wearing boots."

That cracked them the heck up.  They were laughing all night that I thought a Sneakers Candy Bar goes on your feet.

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« Reply #334 on: April 30, 2008, 10:12:40 AM »
:lol:  
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« Reply #335 on: May 05, 2008, 05:45:40 AM »
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by the Warehouse Employees, Dairy, Bakery, Softdrink, Laundry, Linen, General Sales Drivers and Allied Employees, Local Union No. ###, a/w International Brotherhood of Teamsters
I thought that was just their letterhead, but they really use that in a document.

I edited out the local number, just realized I shouldn't have put that in there.
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« Reply #336 on: May 05, 2008, 08:06:10 AM »
That's a long and unwieldy name if I've ever seen one. Also a pretty strange conglomeration.
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« Reply #337 on: May 06, 2008, 12:16:34 PM »
"orientate"

As opposed to, I suppose "orient".
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« Reply #338 on: May 06, 2008, 12:26:24 PM »
Orientate is a perfectly cromulent word. It's more common in British usage, though, probably because Americans are more likely to get their panties in a bunch over such things.
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« Reply #339 on: May 06, 2008, 03:05:41 PM »
I am fully aware that orientate is technically correct. But it's still WRONG! :P

And it's unnecessary -- orient works perfectly well as a verb. Ostentatious Brits. :angry:  
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« Reply #340 on: May 06, 2008, 03:08:06 PM »
This wasn't a Brit.  It was an engineer.
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« Reply #341 on: May 06, 2008, 03:10:34 PM »
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I am fully aware that orientate is technically correct. But it's still WRONG! :P

And it's unnecessary -- orient works perfectly well as a verb. Ostentatious Brits. :angry:
Wrong on the grounds that it's unnecessary? If that's the standard you're going to use for deciding what's right and what's wrong, then you've going to have to scrap whole swaths of the language.
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« Reply #342 on: May 06, 2008, 03:10:57 PM »
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This wasn't a Brit.  It was an engineer.
I was just saying that it's far more common in Britain, not that it's exclusively British.
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« Reply #343 on: May 06, 2008, 03:21:29 PM »
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I am fully aware that orientate is technically correct. But it's still WRONG! :P

And it's unnecessary -- orient works perfectly well as a verb. Ostentatious Brits. :angry:
Wrong on the grounds that it's unnecessary? If that's the standard you're going to use for deciding what's right and what's wrong, then you've going to have to scrap whole swaths of the language.
Like the less/fewer distinction. :P
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« Reply #344 on: May 06, 2008, 03:52:18 PM »
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Wrong on the grounds that it's unnecessary?
No, wrong because it warps the fabric of space-time.

The unnecessary aspect was a separate issue; hence the use of "and."
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« Reply #345 on: May 06, 2008, 03:57:40 PM »
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No, wrong because it warps the fabric of space-time.
Ah, so you're going to even try to come up with a good reason for your dislike of it, eh? :P

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The unnecessary aspect was a separate issue; hence the use of "and."
So you don't think that being unnecessary is bad?
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« Reply #346 on: May 06, 2008, 06:57:31 PM »
I think orientate sounds like a good signature dish for a Chinese pub called O'Chius.
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« Reply #347 on: May 06, 2008, 08:46:24 PM »
My main problem with "orientate" isn't the word itself, but how it's used by the people who use it; I mostly see people saying "orientate" instead of "orient" when they are trying to sound smarter than they are.

You know, like "cromulent".
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« Reply #348 on: May 07, 2008, 01:49:59 AM »
Is the "cromulent" part a joke?
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« Reply #349 on: May 07, 2008, 01:56:14 AM »
I thought "cromulent" itself was a joke, a made-up word meant to sound erudite.
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