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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1200 on: February 23, 2017, 10:47:33 AM »
Nobody needed that ever.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1201 on: March 28, 2017, 10:40:52 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1202 on: March 28, 2017, 10:55:29 AM »
Heh.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1203 on: April 22, 2017, 10:01:31 AM »


It was panel five that really killed me.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1204 on: April 28, 2017, 10:25:51 AM »

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1205 on: May 10, 2017, 08:37:25 AM »
Good news, everyone! This whole sandwich debate will probably burn itself out in another seven or eight years.

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1206 on: June 06, 2017, 03:00:32 PM »
"Broker" is a funny name for the job of someone who manages your money.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1207 on: June 13, 2017, 09:26:10 AM »
Grocer is a funny word.  You'd think people would prefer the person who was handing their food to be less gross, not more.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1208 on: June 13, 2017, 09:28:05 AM »
Pumps and clogs sound like things that plumbers have to work with, but they're also kinds of shoes.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1209 on: June 13, 2017, 09:45:31 AM »
Huh. I never realized this before, but etymologically, a grocer is someone who buys and sells in gross (in bulk, that is, not in disgustingness).
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1210 on: June 14, 2017, 02:46:30 PM »
Interesting.


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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1212 on: June 25, 2017, 12:52:02 PM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1213 on: July 07, 2017, 08:56:12 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1214 on: September 13, 2017, 01:47:37 PM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1215 on: September 13, 2017, 09:44:18 PM »
By me, "orientate" is the most annoying.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1216 on: September 14, 2017, 05:44:28 AM »
The world *would* be way easier if other people's opinions weren't so incorrect all of the time.

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1217 on: September 14, 2017, 11:51:22 AM »
By me, "orientate" is the most annoying.
I would agree, but "by me" is considerably worse.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1218 on: September 14, 2017, 04:06:02 PM »
I find it to be folksy.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1219 on: September 14, 2017, 04:14:01 PM »
Is that a Yiddishism? It sounds kind of like one, but I don't think they use "bei mir" like that in German.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1220 on: September 14, 2017, 04:15:35 PM »
 It is, for sure, a Yiddishism.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1221 on: September 14, 2017, 09:27:01 PM »
Is that a Yiddishism?
In Yiddish, "by" is used in place of a ridiculous number of prepositions. A frequently cited Yiddish translation of "of the people, by the people, for the people" is "by the oilam, by the oilam, by the oilam".
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1222 on: September 15, 2017, 02:48:52 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1223 on: September 18, 2017, 03:09:36 PM »
Cool. Thanks!
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1224 on: September 20, 2017, 09:55:17 AM »
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