I'd bet that the people who say "unthaw" are aware of the meaning of "thaw". They must have some reason for saying "unthaw" instead. My explanation may not be the right one, but there's an explanation somewhere.
I've been listening to my friend saying "unthaw" for years and never once thought anything of it.
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do I want to answer this?I'd bet that the people who say "unthaw" are aware of the meaning of "thaw". <snip>
I've been listening to my friend saying "unthaw" for years and never once thought anything of it.
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I dunno, I've always liked Agoran and never connected it with Star Trek. Agorite sounds too Biblical to me.Let's not make it so.But I dunno, Agoran sounds a bit StarTreky.
Would that parAgoric could cure diarrhea of the keyboard . . .Is that anything like paralegal or paramedic?how 'bout parAgoric?
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Re: IRREGARDLESS
Gail has obviously never had children who eat french fries with their ketchup . . .. . . just as I accept that ketchup is a vegetable.
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
Agorite sounds like it should be on the periodic table of elements [Ag] but where? Position determined by boiling point? Date of discovery? Is Agorite a transitional metal (both ductile and malleable, conducting electricity and heat) or a noble gas (inert until the 1960's, now identified as stable)?I dunno, I've always liked Agoran and never connected it with Star Trek. Agorite sounds too Biblical to me.
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Ooh! A girl who speaks the language of my youth! Maybe we can get together someday and discuss the merits of methyl magnesium Grignards over a flask of diethyl ether.Agorite sounds like it should be on the periodic table of elements [Ag] but where? Position determined by boiling point? Date of discovery? Is Agorite a transitional metal (both ductile and malleable, conducting electricity and heat) or a noble gas (inert until the 1960's, now identified as stable)?I dunno, I've always liked Agoran and never connected it with Star Trek. Agorite sounds too Biblical to me.
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Unfortunately, Ag is already taken as a symbol. Might I suggest "Aa" for "Alpha [Agorga -- Oops.] Agora?" Perhaps it's place in the Periodic Table will be discovered to be in Group 3 of the yet-to-be found Period 8, where it would be truly "heavy," and might be termed a "rare bird" rather than a "rare earth."
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Un-redundancy???
I don't think redundancy is always a positive & a negative case, we have to may examples of that.
However, I wonder why "un" is so often used, could it be perhaps, theorizing off the top of my pointy-head, that it is a built in corruption or confusion in English that we have inherited from the Norman French. I have observed that "un croissant, svp" Just a thought, perhaps it is a subconscious part of the language like accents & dialects... I'm just trying to say that perhaps it is similar to dialect or habits, and it makes words sound better more very much hugely empathically more important, or perhaps it is just taking the place of ... uuummmm... well just.... umm... give me time for an interject a tone?!?
Perhaps children just hear it as a part of speech and insert it into their own language, dad says " I took the steak out of the freezer to... umm... thaw it.", but junior rears it as "blah, blah, steak, blah <parent speak>... unthaw it."
I have never been accused of not say "to much" thank you for the complement; I will think of you the next time some one tells me to stop extemporizing.
However, I wonder why "un" is so often used, could it be perhaps, theorizing off the top of my pointy-head, that it is a built in corruption or confusion in English that we have inherited from the Norman French. I have observed that "un croissant, svp" Just a thought, perhaps it is a subconscious part of the language like accents & dialects... I'm just trying to say that perhaps it is similar to dialect or habits, and it makes words sound better more very much hugely empathically more important, or perhaps it is just taking the place of ... uuummmm... well just.... umm... give me time for an interject a tone?!?
Perhaps children just hear it as a part of speech and insert it into their own language, dad says " I took the steak out of the freezer to... umm... thaw it.", but junior rears it as "blah, blah, steak, blah <parent speak>... unthaw it."
I have never been accused of not say "to much" thank you for the complement; I will think of you the next time some one tells me to stop extemporizing.
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Re: Un-redundancy???
That's a good point eberntson. I think most of language is unconscious. Articulation, syntax, meanings are all unconsciously acquired and used.Just a thought, perhaps it is a subconscious part of the language like accents & dialects... I'm just trying to say that perhaps it is similar to dialect or habits, and it makes words sound better more very much hugely empathically more important, or perhaps it is just taking the place of ... uuummmm... well just.... umm... give me time for an interject a tone?!?
I don't think "un" is from Norman French; the meaning is too different. I think your idea of it making the word emphatic or important is closer to an explanation.
On the other hand, I don't know what you mean by this.I don't think redundancy is always a positive & a negative case, we have to may examples of that.
So, Stargzer, you don't think Ag will share its place with the silver-tongued devils here?Aha! you've got it we'll be Agorgans, how's that?Unfortunately, Ag is already taken as a symbol. Might I suggest "Aa" for "Alpha Agorga?" Perhaps it's place in the
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A'-gor-gan, a-GOR'-gan; how you planning to pronunciate this, Bailey? Novel effort, but it sounds kind of Star Trekky, too, I think...
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No, no snakes for hair for the Agoran women.Aha! you've got it we'll be Agorgans, how's that?Unfortunately, Ag is already taken as a symbol. Might I suggest "Aa" for "Alpha Agorga?" Perhaps it's place in the
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
ok I guess it's not particularily flattering, but hey I got up at oh-dark-thirty and got only a few hours of sleep so I'm not on top of my game. I dunno though, dreads on all Agorgans might be cool.No, no snakes for hair for the Agoran women.
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you'd look cute though, dreads under your fancy headress. as long as they're not battleship grey/gray.I say we Dreadnought, it goes against cannon, sir.I dunno though, dreads on all Agorgans might be cool.
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who thinks that sounds more standard than "dasn't dread".
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Grey can be so...um...distinguished, though.
Jeez...do you think "um" might be have some meaning, linguistically speaking? I say it all the time. I do, really.
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Jeez...do you think "um" might be have some meaning, linguistically speaking? I say it all the time. I do, really.
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