in a dictionary, a good one (with quotes and other stuff)
bet you can't look up just one.
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| User: "Justin -" |
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| Title: Re: looking up words |
21 Dec 2006 12:35:08 AM |
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"Contrarian" <adrba65@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| in a dictionary, a good one (with quotes and other stuff)
| bet you can't look up just one.
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I know, it almost becomes addictive don't it?
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| User: "jordy" |
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| Title: Re: looking up words |
22 Dec 2006 03:28:59 PM |
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Contrarian wrote:
in a dictionary, a good one (with quotes and other stuff)
bet you can't look up just one.
you know, a dictionary is a very interesting, helpful book... One
thing I've noticed about depression(and other mental illnesses) is that
they can be very imparing intellectually... your mind can go totally
blank, things you learned and knew from school, or from other sources
can totally slip from your mind, and you can forget even the simplest
words... looking at a dictionary can help bring up simple words that
are buried somewhere in your mind, but are hard to drag up to the
surface... "dictionary" is also a very fun game, a lot of fun to play
at get-togethers...
-"Jordy"
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| User: "Kirby Cook" |
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| Title: Re: looking up words |
22 Dec 2006 03:24:09 PM |
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Contrarian wrote:
in a dictionary, a good one (with quotes and other stuff)
bet you can't look up just one.
<smile> No bet. "clandestine" is one I like.
Kirby
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: looking up words |
21 Dec 2006 01:01:42 AM |
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In message <Vdpih.780$dd.683@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
Contrarian <adrba65@gmail.com> writes
in a dictionary, a good one (with quotes and other stuff)
bet you can't look up just one.
Very morish.
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "Hexe" |
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21 Dec 2006 05:43:20 AM |
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:47:33 GMT, "Contrarian"<adrba65@gmail.com> wrote:
in a dictionary, a good one (with quotes and other stuff)
bet you can't look up just one.
i often get lost among the words and forget the one i wanted to look up.
i love words. they say so much.
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:Hexe
:Thought for the journey:
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold
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| User: "pinot" |
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| Title: Re: looking up words |
21 Dec 2006 08:11:32 AM |
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:47:33 GMT, "Contrarian"<adrba65@gmail.com>
wrote:
in a dictionary, a good one (with quotes and other stuff)
bet you can't look up just one.
When I was a kid, especially, I loved to read the dictionary. We had a
foreign words and phrases section in the back of ours, and I
especially liked perusing that.
My mother once was contacted by my school because they thought, with
my quoting Latin in a 6th grade paper, I must be plagiarizing. My
mother told them otherwise. Heck, doesn't every 6th grader use "Sic
Transit Gloria Mundi" at the end of a story about the end of the world
("Thus passes the glory of this world.")? (Forgive me if I slaughtered
the Latin spelling. It's been a while.)
What goes around comes around. My almost 12-YO daughter also enjoys
reading the dictionary. We don't have a foreign words and phrases
section in ours, so she hasn't been spotted writing in Latin...yet.
I still can't peek into a dictionary to look something up without
being drawn into other words.
p
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