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Subject: BS: Dumbtionary From: Jack the Sailor Date: 08 Mar 14 - 03:45 PM http://www.dumbtionary.com/word/devistating.shtml Very funny site IMHO. Enjoy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: GUEST Date: 08 Mar 14 - 05:33 PM Thought you were out of here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Jack the Sailor Date: 08 Mar 14 - 06:03 PM Hi there! You anonymous coward you. :-D Why don't you look up the word "may." There may be an insight for you in your dictionary. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 08 Mar 14 - 07:41 PM I fail to see the purpose of the Dumbtionary. There are many ways to misspell words, but the correct English spellings may be found in a dictionary or by googling. Why list possible mistakesÉ (wrong font mistake). Moreover, with regard to place names, footnotes are needed. National Geographic and some other maps give the names as they are used in that country, e. g., Lisboa, with the English spelling Lisbon in () or not noted at all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Jack the Sailor Date: 08 Mar 14 - 07:49 PM I googled a spelling and got the dumbtionary. With a little picture of a short bus to enhance my humiliation. :-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: GUEST Date: 08 Mar 14 - 08:25 PM Humiliation requires conscience as a predecessor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Jack the Sailor Date: 09 Mar 14 - 11:20 AM Anonymous jackass is as anonymous jackass does. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 09 Mar 14 - 10:06 PM I dislike the name Dumbtionary. A person isn't dumb just because they can't spell a long word. Author Donald Westlake once wrote a book with a bunch of apprentice gangsters whose speech epitomized the stupid. I'm going to paraphrase the way they talked. "One thing Mikey taught them was that if some fucker came up to them and talked about some fucking great idea he had, that they should back off and first ask "What the fuck?" In my opinion, that's the typical speech of stupid people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 10 Mar 14 - 01:02 PM Two days ago, BBC News channel had a story based in the Arctic Ocean. The little rolling text at the bottom had the spelling 'Artic'. Rarely does the BBC make a mistake of this kind, but the person(s) who write the trailers occasionally are careless or uncertain with geographic words; I recall previous mistakes. This morning I saw one of those air-time fillers on CNN. They complained that 'could care less' was incorrect and 'couldn't care less' is correct. I read mysteries, and in the last two (both UK) I have seen both. More or less slang expressions, one can only point to the latter as the most common, but correctness is a judgement call. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 10 Mar 14 - 01:12 PM "Donald Westlake once wrote a book with a bunch of apprentice gangsters....." Were they listed as co-authors? (Sorry, leeneia, I couldn't help it. I must admit that I have made similar errors in hastily written posts.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Jack the Sailor Date: 10 Mar 14 - 02:23 PM 'could care less' Could be correct for someone who is being ironic or sarcastic? "I could care less." (but not much less) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: GUEST Date: 11 Mar 14 - 07:10 AM The trouble is, Jack, you played dirty in your resignation thread, you insulted the host of the forum, and still think you can have the whip hand here. I'm the poster who rounded things off with the comment that many posters spend too much time in vituperation here, and that applies to this thread too. Me, I've got work from Andy Mellon to concentrate on, so see you all in ten days time or maybe more. You should do the same, spend more time rehearsing your music and maybe you'd not be quite such a pain. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: GUEST,John Date: 11 Mar 14 - 07:35 AM I wonder whether other artists snipe at each other all the time on the internet- or is it just musicians? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 11 Mar 14 - 11:06 AM John, very few of the master quarrelers here are musicians. They're just people who love to fight, especially after a few beers, and they find fighting with catters more satisfying than fighting with teenagers, whose idea of communicating is "Whatcha doon?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumbtionary From: Jack the Sailor Date: 11 Mar 14 - 12:23 PM If you think that commenting on irony is "having the whip hand." Your problem isn't with me. It is with who ever taught you the English language. Of course I could have sent this in a "Private Message," If you were registered. Thanks for the advice. For what it is worth. |
