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11-30-2006, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
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Phallus = Penis
What made you think this?
Because of you, I'll score exceptionally high on the English section of the SAT.
I see that you like to flaunt your vocabulary skills, doesn't hurt, because I benefit as well.
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"There is no way out of the mind"--Sylvia Plath
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11-30-2006, 09:32 PM
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#52
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 240
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I have a much large vocabulary than this, it's mostly Latin terms though, and a few French phrases that have been adopted by English. A few of my all time favorite words were: deplorable, vis-a-vis, tete-a-tete, ad lib, ad hominem, ad hoc, de facto, de jure, concubine, manumit, mort, peidstall, faze, raze, faux, pseudo, quasi, cognizance, affect, ellipse, ellipsis, locus, sully, chav, troglodyte, Neanderthal, quintessential, argumentum ad personam, tu quoque, distraught, disenchanted, ardent, arduous, ardurous, misogyny, misanthropy, utilitarianism, mutually exclusive, causality, imbecility, ineptitude, boorish, ambiguity, perspicacious, pulchritude, etc.
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12-01-2006, 12:08 PM
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#53
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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Wow, I am quite impressed with your language abilities.
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12-01-2006, 12:09 PM
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#54
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 240
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I really like history a lot too, I just can't remember names and dates, but I can recall major concepts usually.
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12-01-2006, 12:11 PM
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#55
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
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I don't remember dates and names unless it's for a test in my history class.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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12-01-2006, 12:54 PM
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#56
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 36
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Sorry, I guess it's indeed unnecessary.
History is interesting. I love major concepts. I love to understand why the world today is the way it is.
I do know almost every word you just used. English has alot of French and Latin in its roots. What do you know about etymology?
You indeed score high in obscure words. English is so rich. Do you write anything like stories or poetry?
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12-01-2006, 01:51 PM
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#57
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 240
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I do write poetry occasionally, and I am becoming increasingly familiar with etymology (it's a lot of fun). Like racoon is Algonquian if you didn't know. I haven't been able to write poetry in a long time, and my metaphors are usually kind of obscure I guess; because even my professors don't see them, or are unsure.
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12-01-2006, 03:24 PM
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#58
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 1,688
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Didn't we already have this conversation?
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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12-01-2006, 03:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Where do you live?
Posts: 137
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This is a waste of a post...
It seems that you can't see eye to eye with this coterie. Are you trying to becloud us all with your wordy manner? Anyway...
I believe that everybody yens for you to become indisposed and debilitated from tossing you cookies to often and to far yonder. But that would be prodigal wouldn't it? Or, if that wouldn't be possible, to flog you with a shillelagh.
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Genrals gathered in their masses,
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction,
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning,
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind,
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
~War Pigs/Luke's Wall~
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey
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12-01-2006, 09:31 PM
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#60
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 240
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You could have just said fustian diction to be terse. I am not really verbose actually.
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12-01-2006, 09:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Where do you live?
Posts: 137
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So I have found out.
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Genrals gathered in their masses,
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction,
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning,
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind,
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
~War Pigs/Luke's Wall~
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey
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12-01-2006, 11:09 PM
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#62
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 240
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apropos, master the difference between to, and too.
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