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by Slava
Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:00 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: REMORSE
Replies: 12
Views: 15839

In Italian (and someone please correct my spelling), "a barking dog doesn't bit" is "canno qui baio no mordo". So barking dogs are remorseless, never having moresed in the first place. :roll: Interestingly, the Russian for muzzle, as on a beastie, is "mordo", also an i...
by Slava
Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:56 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: REMORSE
Replies: 12
Views: 15839

In Italian (and someone please correct my spelling), "a barking dog doesn't bit" is "canno qui baio no mordo". So barking dogs are remorseless, never having moresed in the first place. :roll:
I believe that's spelled/spelt "bite".
by Slava
Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:53 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: REMORSE
Replies: 12
Views: 15839

My only remorse is that you thought this up before the rest of us. :D
Does this mean you're fully in a state of remorse?
by Slava
Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:41 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: A Burning Question
Replies: 8
Views: 16335

Re: Burning Up and Down

You haven't been paying attention to some of the names up with which he comes! 8)
Like, perhaps, from "consensus" on 8/5/06?
by Slava
Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:42 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: REMORSE
Replies: 12
Views: 15839

Okay, now how about the French connection here? With a root of merd, can't someone come up with a witticism or two?

Also, if you eat that whole box of chocolate, wouldn't you feel remorse and fullness at the same time? Thus making remorsefulness the proper choice?
by Slava
Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:39 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: A Burning Question
Replies: 8
Views: 16335

Aren't we the hangers-on? After all, it was the Good Doctor who started the whole shebang here on the Agora.
by Slava
Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:20 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: A Burning Question
Replies: 8
Views: 16335

A Burning Question

To an arsonist, would burning things up and burning things down be sinonymous (sic)?
by Slava
Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:29 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: DISQUISITION
Replies: 6
Views: 9294

Better a disquisition than an inquisition. (Presumably, less racks and burnings at the stake.) Perry, were you tired when writing this one? I've always been taught that count nouns, like racks and burnings at the stake, take the comparative "fewer." Or have grocery store express lanes cha...
by Slava
Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:07 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Ajar
Replies: 9
Views: 12443

In the words of the great Pat Paulson: Picky, Picky, Picky.
by Slava
Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:39 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Ajar
Replies: 9
Views: 12443

So, when is a door not a door?

When it's ajar!

Har, Har!
by Slava
Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:41 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: CONJURE
Replies: 3
Views: 6365

Re: CONJURE


"Rosemarie's beauty conjured Vance's tongue to lay silent; he couldn't even utter her name."


Shouldn't one's tongue "lie" silent?
by Slava
Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:47 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: New Name for Posts
Replies: 7
Views: 12401

In re: ???

The Dr. often uses names that sound like words in the mailings. This is just a suggestion for a new one, along the lines of "Maud Lynne Dresser."
by Slava
Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:14 pm
Forum: Idioms
Topic: identical to/with
Replies: 7
Views: 46461

Basically, I'd agree w/gailr. I'm going to vote for there being no distinction, except in the minds of the lawyers. Let's track down them what wrote this drivel, and get them to define the difference, if they can.

BTW, love the fading font size. It gives a nice visualization to the legalese.
by Slava
Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:08 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Brain Food?
Replies: 7
Views: 15025

Can it, Slava...

:wink:
Careful, or I'll pop my top. Or are you just pulling my tab?
by Slava
Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:42 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: TRICHOTILLOMANIA
Replies: 5
Views: 8734

So, can you go up to your hair stylist and ask, "How's thrix?"

And if she's got the right name, "How's thrix, Tilly?"

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