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by gailr
Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:26 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Prodigy
Replies: 10
Views: 12781

Re: Prodigy

Keep writing.

Your efforts are appreciated even when some of us (ahem) fail to reply.
by gailr
Sun Nov 03, 2013 7:54 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: GIF
Replies: 12
Views: 20319

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.
:wink:
by gailr
Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:29 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: GIF
Replies: 12
Views: 20319

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. :wink:
by gailr
Tue Oct 29, 2013 10:34 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: GIF
Replies: 12
Views: 20319

Re: GIF

The graphics people I've met (4 states) say jay-peg. That has mostly been supplanted by PDFs (please, not 'PDF files').
by gailr
Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:46 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: GIF
Replies: 12
Views: 20319

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...
by gailr
Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:33 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: equivocate
Replies: 3
Views: 6794

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
by gailr
Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:11 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Idioms * Adages
Replies: 9
Views: 20356

Re: Idioms * Adages

Thanks for allowing capitalization options -- that's what caught me on the ones I 'missed' the first time.
by gailr
Mon Oct 28, 2013 12:47 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Fedora
Replies: 13
Views: 18057

Re: Fedora

A fine word.

I've always had fedoras in my wardrobe. :D
by gailr
Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:21 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Procrastinate
Replies: 12
Views: 17078

Re: Procrastinate

I think Snoopy once wrote, "Never put off til tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely."
by gailr
Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:12 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Err
Replies: 17
Views: 24515

Re: Err

By the powerror invested in the agora, we pronounce you forgiven.
by gailr
Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:07 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Stereophonic
Replies: 22
Views: 29790

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" ...
by gailr
Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:11 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Stereophonic
Replies: 22
Views: 29790

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.

Image
by gailr
Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:30 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Redeem
Replies: 16
Views: 21762

Re: Redeem

If one chooses to not apply a coupon towards a purchase, is he dis-deeming the item? :D
by gailr
Sun Oct 20, 2013 4:42 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Baby Names...or Not
Replies: 33
Views: 49842

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.
by gailr
Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:39 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Defalcate
Replies: 10
Views: 13412

Re: Defalcate

Very nice, MTC!

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