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Old 02.03.2013, 17:48
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Re: Word of Today

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Old 02.03.2013, 20:49
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Re: Word of Today

Salubrious

I'm looking forward to some salubrious weather coming up in the near future..

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Old 02.03.2013, 21:46
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Re: Word of Today

If you are stuck for a two-letter word: perhaps for Scrabble, a US state or a chemical symbol, I am sure that this venn diagram will be amazingly useful
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Old 04.03.2013, 21:25
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Old 04.03.2013, 21:26
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Why?
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Old 04.03.2013, 21:32
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Re: Word of Today

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not sure why.. (if you're asking me).. just a warm, bright, cosy word like warming your tootsies near the fireplace and quietly watching how the light glows from the embers.
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I dare you to do that again!
I think I will have to..
Since the art we did just got put out in in a public expo.

Today's Special will be le roi. We pretended to be royalty in the class, it was fun to confront stereotypes, assumptions, myths, etc.
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Old 12.03.2013, 21:09
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Re: Word of Today

Amazing Word of Today is a cooperative overlap

As in, "why are you constantly cutting me off", "I am not, just showing engagement and enthusiasm by unintrusively cooperatively overlapping"...

That made me laugh. Apparently frequent in female speakers of Eastern European Jewish community.

Wunderbar. I always knew we are not just ansty. We are engaged and solidary.
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Old 12.03.2013, 23:58
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Amazing Word of Today is a cooperative overlap

As in, "why are you constantly cutting me off", "I am not, just showing engagement and enthusiasm by unintrusively cooperatively overlapping"...

That made me laugh. Apparently frequent in female speakers of Eastern European Jewish community.

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love that. i would say it is frequent in many- bouncing ideas that just can't wait!
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love that. i would say it is frequent in many- bouncing ideas that just can't wait!
It's funny, isn't it...wait, there is another one, since it's a new day, time for a new word.

Latching. Bouncing ideas, exactly, like a zipper, in a dialogue.

EF, we are the ultimate masters of latching. Yo.
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Old 27.03.2013, 23:52
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Re: Word of Today

Linguistic authoritarianism.

It's BS.
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Well, adjectives and adverbs describe ... and you could say prepositions describe relationships ... but nouns simply name, while articles don't really do anything when alone!

Does this post make my word of the day pedantry ?
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Old 03.04.2013, 06:39
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Well, adjectives and adverbs describe ... and you could say prepositions describe relationships ... but nouns simply name, while articles don't really do anything when alone!

Does this post make my word of the day pedantry ?
Parts of speech are fun, aren't they..
And then there are languages full of verbs and other languages dense with adjectives and nouns, which might tell us something about the way these nations perceive reality.

Word of Today is substance.
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