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- Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:26 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Prodigy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13412
- Sun Nov 03, 2013 7:54 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: GIF
- Replies: 12
- Views: 29187
Re: GIF
If you want your document to print as you saw it, your photo to maintain its detail, or your logo to look respectable, you'll send a pdf rather than a doc. To every file there is a purpose, and an extension for every document under heaven.
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:29 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: GIF
- Replies: 12
- Views: 29187
Re: GIF
I want to believe in my mad skilz... If you bring me an X-File I may be able to trouble shoot it for you.
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 10:34 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: GIF
- Replies: 12
- Views: 29187
Re: GIF
The graphics people I've met (4 states) say jay-peg. That has mostly been supplanted by PDFs (please, not 'PDF files').
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:46 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: GIF
- Replies: 12
- Views: 29187
Re: GIF
Philip: the acronym you're describing has become the preferred format for some forum avatars, and is useful for animating an icon while maintaining a small file size -- such as our own smilies. I cringe a little when someone pronounces them: gif t s. I will confess, some of my favorite "animate...
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: equivocate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7206
Re: equivocate
Good suggestion, William. I've always thought of this as a synonym for 'weasel words', although the ambiguity of an equivocation depends on the ability to successfully send two different messages with one statement.
to use unclear language especially to deceive or mislead someone
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Idioms * Adages
- Replies: 9
- Views: 21813
Re: Idioms * Adages
Thanks for allowing capitalization options -- that's what caught me on the ones I 'missed' the first time.
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 12:47 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Fedora
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19169
Re: Fedora
A fine word.
I've always had fedoras in my wardrobe.
I've always had fedoras in my wardrobe.
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Procrastinate
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18297
Re: Procrastinate
I think Snoopy once wrote, "Never put off til tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely."
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:12 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Err
- Replies: 17
- Views: 26673
Re: Err
By the powerror invested in the agora, we pronounce you forgiven.
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:07 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Stereophonic
- Replies: 22
- Views: 32724
Re: Stereophonic
Those cards were cool, MTC. Sometimes the angle of the shot was minimally different from one to the other, for other images it was apparent. I wonder if looking at slightly different side-by-side photos on one card was one of the inspirations for the "what is difference between these two" ...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Stereophonic
- Replies: 22
- Views: 32724
Re: Stereophonic
Another stereo that made its way to English (although seldom heard from anymore) is the stereopticon and stereographs we played with at grandma's house.
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Redeem
- Replies: 16
- Views: 23399
Re: Redeem
If one chooses to not apply a coupon towards a purchase, is he dis-deeming the item?
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 4:42 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Baby Names...or Not
- Replies: 33
- Views: 52038
Re: Baby Names...or Not
V-Sauce posted a video on names yesterday: Names
It's a pastiche of information about names, including laws, distribution, social effects, and names for names.
There's another topic here on words that have opposite meanings, and he touches on that with autoantonym.
It's a pastiche of information about names, including laws, distribution, social effects, and names for names.
There's another topic here on words that have opposite meanings, and he touches on that with autoantonym.
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:39 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Defalcate
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14138
Re: Defalcate
Very nice, MTC!