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« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2010, 11:20:18 PM »
But it seems as though they must have a term for the category when discussing which of the varieties is best, or weighing their various qualities.
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« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2010, 08:53:15 AM »
Hey! Turns out that "Bleu" is a term for the category. (Under "B" there is the category "Bleus")
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« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2010, 08:54:55 AM »
Hmmm... however, Roquefort, which I thought was a Bleu, is listed on its own. Maybe the French definition of bleu is a lot narrower than we would think.
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« Reply #28 on: January 25, 2010, 09:10:05 AM »
That's just a way of grouping terms that start with the same word. Roquefort is a bleu cheese, but its name does not start with Bleu, so it isn't put under the Bleu alphabetical grouping.

But yes, bleu is a term for the type of cheese. I don't know how you'd generally refer to it in France, but "fromage bleu" does return a good number of hits on google.fr.
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« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2010, 05:04:57 PM »
Today as I was grading the spelling tests the teacher started quizzing the kids on presidents of the US, going up from first.  I was transfixed by this.  I should really learn them, anyway.  
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« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2010, 05:16:06 PM »
*sings* "Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison Monroe and Adams....."

Of course, when I learned it, that song ended with "Bush makes 41 presidents"
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« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2010, 05:48:08 PM »
I was showing my children the Queen Elizabeth with presidents series and finally realized LBJ was missing.
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« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2010, 04:18:12 PM »
Wow pooka.  Just... wow. ;)  
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2010, 05:23:22 PM »
Today, I was doing some correcting for my Teacher Aid class.  A seventh grader had written their name, and next to it put "apsint".  :facepalm:
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #34 on: September 01, 2010, 06:29:06 AM »
Gotta give the student points for gumption.
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« Reply #35 on: August 31, 2011, 07:34:12 AM »
Word I hadn't seen before on this week's spelling list:  Shambolic
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #36 on: February 25, 2014, 07:18:48 AM »
Shouldn't the rule be "i before e except after c or before silent g"?  It's tough because chief looks like a meta-exception to most people but if you know phonetics, it isn't. 
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #37 on: April 02, 2014, 08:08:27 PM »
Speaking of I before E, I recently had an argument with a player of a game I played today in the comments section, where he spelled "weird" wrong, he spelled it "wierd" and when I proceeded to correct him, he said "no, no, no, you have it wong it's wierd becawse I before E except after C how did you pass kindergarten?", then I replied "Can Others reply to this comment and agree with me that he spelled "weird" wrong?", then I saw the "5 others typing" text and I was like "Yes, this dude will get owned!" but then they say stuff like "No it's spelled "Wierd".  Dude, learn basic engrish" and "You cannot violate a rule.  It would be like breaking the law of gravity.  It's spelled wierd whether you like it or not because I before E".  I then facepalmed myself so hard I got a concussion.   :grumble:
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #38 on: April 03, 2014, 08:10:50 AM »
Next time, post a link to a dictionary entry. It's hard to argue with that.
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #39 on: October 04, 2014, 02:15:02 PM »
Hey, that's a good idea!
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #40 on: October 04, 2014, 07:24:35 PM »
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"No it's spelled "Wierd".  Dude, learn basic engrish" and "You cannot violate a rule.  It would be like breaking the law of gravity.  It's spelled wierd whether you like it or not because I before E".

Those both seem to me like sarcasm.
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #41 on: October 05, 2014, 08:09:30 PM »
Eh, perhaps they are, but it's still irritating as crap, and my mind registered them as actual stupidity, and it triggered an allergic reaction in me, thanks to my allergy to stupidity.
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Re: Holey Cwap
« Reply #42 on: February 06, 2015, 09:47:53 AM »
Sometimes we leave subtitles on and I see movie lines I never really thought through before.  Like in Lilo and Stitch, after Stitch flattens all the truck tires, the driver jumps out and says "What we went hit?"  Where is that a thing?  Well, Hawaii, apparently. 
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