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- Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:36 am
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
- Views: 273199
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:48 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Poverty
- Replies: 20
- Views: 32318
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:42 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
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- Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:34 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Poverty
- Replies: 20
- Views: 32318
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:08 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Camerate
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8935
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:04 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: CATAWAMPUS
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14349
Re: catawampus
I've also heard a few people use "kitty" instead of "cata" or "cater" in these words. Probably originally intended as a humorous variant from "cat" to "kitty." I'm in Louisiana, so I don't know how widespread this is. I just heard the word for the f...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:55 am
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
- Views: 503492
How do you get the route/rout pronunciation as coming from the media? I've always said root, but the locals here have always said rout, at least since my family moved here in '68. It's much like the awnt/ant cOntroversy/contrOversy. A personal theory but I believe route > rout comes from the NFL an...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 3:48 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: PALINDROMES
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36177
Alexander Popov used a coherer attached to a vertical wire designed to record atmospheric disturbances. One of the early experimenters with electricity, magnetism and eventually radio waves. He's not me, even if I've been known to Popov now and again... :roll: But thank ye for the goodly time. Oops-...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:03 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: PALINDROMES
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36177
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:58 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
- Views: 503492
i've gotta disagree and land somewhere in between. To the extent that media becomes/has become ubiquitous, I believe it does smooth out some regionalism. It doesn't wipe it out, thankfully --we still generally retain the patterns of the environment of our early childhoods-- but the more we hear of t...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:42 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Do you pronounce the "r" in Mrs.?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 176592
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:33 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: Can't explain to a foreigner "Shut up and eat your shri
- Replies: 13
- Views: 53060
I feel pretty strongly that we should keep our topics pristinely on-topci as we always have here (:lol:), and that this deserves its own thread. So having not found any pre-existing, I put one here.
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:25 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: PALINDROMES
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36177
PALINDROMES
The Palindrome Dome: post your faves. My favorite, if I were forced to select one, would be: "Do good? I?? No! Evil anon I deliver; I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I ... Lo! Rack-cut a drowsy rat in Aswan! I gas nine more hero-men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona) ...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:02 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: Can't explain to a foreigner "Shut up and eat your shri
- Replies: 13
- Views: 53060
I'm subtle that way.
It's a cool palindrome. Me like de cool palindromes.
Note to thread: this thread is a duplicate, or to paraphrase the comparitive religion list, this shrimp happened before.
It's a cool palindrome. Me like de cool palindromes.
Note to thread: this thread is a duplicate, or to paraphrase the comparitive religion list, this shrimp happened before.
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:56 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: BASILECT
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27673
Well Luke, first of all it's not true you can't post pictures. You can, but it is iffy and as I remember a bit counterintuitive. I admit if I were do one now I'd have to look up a post where it was already done and try to mimic the method, because the IMG button doesn't work straightforwardly... How...