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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 1:00:33 PM

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sompin' simple........

Waft.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 2:10:44 PM

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Waft.

puff, gently as in an odor carried on wind..

:;gives herself brownie points for not using the word pussy here.::

NW - lanner

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 3:08:08 PM

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lanner

Isn't that a falcon?

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 3:28:26 PM

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guessing lanner is rope.

New word: "miamsa"

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 4:49:27 PM

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New word: "miamsa

Wait! mnottertail already did miasma!

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 6:15:56 PM

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Fie sir........

I did miasma

she did miamsa, a miami salsa methinks..........

LOL

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 6:26:40 PM

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A little recapitulation:

I looked up "uraeus," since I didn't know it, and Petruchio is absolutely right; all I'd add is that it seems to come originally from Greek.

"Lanner" is indeed a kind of falcon. That one I knew.

"Miamsa" looks like a misspelling of "miasma," which we already did. But maybe I'm wrong.

I'll throw out a new word...proleptic

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 6:45:38 PM

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proleptic

to wait for ...........mm lol, I think...it seems right but at the same time wrong lmao

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 6:47:55 PM

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster
I'll throw out a new word...proleptic

RUBBERS, FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
~LROD
or alternatively
!=LROD

see, there will never be another you............

before.......pro
leptic .......hmmmm

a shadow of something to come........kinda like prototype maybe.........
my guess having flunked high school latin..

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(see I can't even spell that right)

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 7:08:17 PM

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I got nothin'. And I'm also left wondering what a leptic is.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/13/2006 7:47:21 PM

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I am betting think like leptons (atomically) you know that Joi de vreve (see I cant even spell that)

but it would be a pre-cursor or a pattern of something.....

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RE: Word Fight - 2/14/2006 1:29:47 AM

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proleptic

hmm.. pro - before.. leptic, could be something like epileptic, .. so my guess.. something along the lines of a pre-seizure?

nw - slave

::chuckles and skips away::

::edited to add:: oh man.. was I way off on that one or what? lol ::slams dictionary closed but keep NW in place, chuckles again and skips away for a second time::

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RE: Word Fight - 2/14/2006 4:35:13 AM

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Stop picking on me for my crappy memory and lousy spelling, Lam...LOL.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/14/2006 4:38:43 AM

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ROFLMAO: kk guessing "proleptic" is a medicine for epilepsy.

"slave" Crimney; war breaks out; see 1,001 threads on that one.

new word: "liturgy"

BTW, where's Gauge?

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RE: Word Fight - 2/14/2006 5:15:08 AM

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Going back to my alter boy days....(lost my halo, although I did keep my virginity despite the priest)....I believe it is the right to worship?

If I'm correct...new word is...........a Valentine's day special...Lovelorn

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RE: Word Fight - 2/14/2006 6:22:10 AM

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You're certainly coming up with a lot of religious terms, pinkie.

"Prolepsis" literally means "anticipation"; it's a category of anachronism in which things or events are placed before they really occur. "You're a dead man" is a good example of prolepsis. The addressee is not REALLY dead yet (unless the speaker is addressing a corpse). In practice, most anachronisms are proleptic--for example (as long as we're talking about Shakespeare), the clock in Julius Caesar.

OK, next words...a pair..."tare" and "tret."

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new word: "liturgy"

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RE: Word Fight - 2/14/2006 4:10:50 PM

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Hey fastlane..look!

Main Entry:lit£ur£gy
Pronunciation:*li-t*r-j*
Function:noun
Inflected Form:plural -gies
Etymology:Late Latin liturgia, from Greek leitourgia public service, from Greek (Attic) le*ton public building (from Greek laos * Attic le*s * people) + -ourgia -urgy
Date:1560

1 often capitalized : a eucharistic rite
2 : a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
3 : a customary repertoire of ideas, phrases, or observances

Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary

As far as i know, everyone has a right to worship. You were an altar boy? YOU???? LMAO.

BTW, "lovelorn" is "heartsore".

No idea about Lam's words.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 10:33:56 AM

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tare is a useless part (kinda)

if I ship you something in the mail , the envelope and stamp is the tare.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 10:59:23 AM

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Yep. You use it in grocery stores, too. (I worked at Payless as a cashier for about two days when I was 18).

It's anything on a package that affects the overall weight of the product, but isn't part of the product. Say you have a container of blueberries. The container, labeling, etc. wouldn't count towards the weight of the actual produce, so what's left over after the actual blueberries is the tare. Usually the tare is automatically taken out at checkout so that you're not paying for the plastic.

I think tret is the net weight (as opposed to tare being the extra that makes up gross weight). After you subtract the tare the tret should be what is left over.

Damn it's freaky the useless knowledge I retain.

If I'm right, here's a new word (one of my favorites). Bonus points if you can get the etymology right.

New Word: Desultory

Edited to add: Etymology is one of my odd passions. I had a brilliant Etymology teacher when I was fourteen, and it led to a strange lifetime passion. It's interesting seeing where words come from and learning why we use them as we do.

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RE: Word Fight - 2/15/2006 11:48:58 AM

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Desultory

is it something like a depository?....akin to insult and destroy?......OOOH...OOOH...OOOOH, I got it?

Desultory......As a result of an insult you stick a missile up their ass and destroy....A new meaning for 'weapons of Ass Destrunction' ; )

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