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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:04 pm
by gailr
Perry is correct. Just make sure that you look and feel your best...


btw, William: lect
NOUN: A social or regional variety of speech having a sociolinguistic or functional identity within a speech community.
Thus, your suggestion might be unlectable in some places. :wink:

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:59 pm
by William
Nice verb. Do you want it to be selected or elected?
Either, Perry, as long as it's not rejected.
I think the great Arlo Guthrie used the most past participles of the "-ected" type in one sentence than any other person I know:
Alice's Restaurant, where the eminently delectable Alice B. Toclas brownies can be had for a song.
Thus, your suggestion might be unlectable in some places.
Undoubtedly... and probably not fully understood as well.

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:00 pm
by Stargzer
Wasn't it INjected, INspected, DEEtected, INfected, NEEglected and SEElected?

Perry I-want-to-see-blood-and-guts-and-veins-in-my-teeth Dror
Alas, the source text was not INflected.

... and you left out the gore, Perry ....

Stargzer was a II-S during The War, but he does eat dead, burnt, bodies; pig, cow, lamb, and fish, although, when asked how rare he wanted his beef cooked, he's been known to say "Send the cow on down the aisle and I'll rip off a chunk as she goes by!"

(Crabs are steamed, not burned, by the way,
heavily sprinkled with Old Bay,
except for soft-shells, which are lightly sautéed.)

:wink:

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:44 pm
by Bailey
Geez you know how to eat, yup!

mark knew-how-to-eat-alas Bailey

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:48 pm
by Bailey


btw, William: lect
NOUN: A social or regional variety of speech having a sociolinguistic or functional identity within a speech community.
Thus, your suggestion might be unlectable in some places. :wink:
Actually lect is a homonym that means both. :wink:

mark playing-fantasy-lexicons Bailey

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:39 pm
by gailr
... although, when asked how rare he wanted his beef cooked, he's been known to say "Send the cow on down the aisle and I'll rip off a chunk as she goes by!"
"Something off the shoulder perhaps?" suggested the animal, "Braised in a white wine sauce?"
...
"Or the rump is very good," murmured the animal. 'I've been exercising it and eating plenty of grain, so there's a lot of good meat there."
...
The animal staggered to its feet. It gave a mellow gurgle. "A very wise choice, sir, if I may say so. Very good," it said, "I'll just nip off and shoot myself." He turned and gave a friendly wink to Arthur. 'Don't worry, sir,' he said, 'I'll be very humane.'
This would be...beefcake or death? :wink: