Post #179,736
10/18/04 1:04:13 PM
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Re: You've got a point.
har, but notice the words you hacked:
consequens - reall "com", an intensive prefix, and "sequens" so "to follow closely" or "to follow directly"
conservare - really "com" and "servare", the latter meaning "to preserve" - so "to preserve intensely"
consumare - really "com" and "sumere", "to take", so "to take completely"
confusum - a morphing of "confundere", meaning "mixed together", so this is actually a self-standing word.
In this sense "concatenate" might be thought to mean "totally bound up" - in any case it's a participle of "catenate". The actual act of chaining is "catenation".
-drl
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Post #179,737
10/18/04 1:09:55 PM
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Latin != English.
Thanks for playing, though.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
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Post #179,740
10/18/04 1:12:22 PM
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Deep -er- profound
-drl
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Post #179,749
10/18/04 1:27:50 PM
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And correct, you'll find.
Using Latin to justify incorrect use of English is silly.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
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Post #179,750
10/18/04 1:28:31 PM
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Implying that there is a correct use of English is silly...
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Post #179,752
10/18/04 1:30:58 PM
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S'not.
There's the way I use it, and there's the wrong way.
(For suitably varied values of "I" :-))
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
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Post #179,759
10/18/04 1:45:40 PM
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Thanks for proving my point. :)
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Post #179,760
10/18/04 1:46:12 PM
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Woosh.
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Post #179,763
10/18/04 1:53:47 PM
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You must hear that noise a lot.
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Post #179,767
10/18/04 2:02:03 PM
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A Merkin, meet Irony. Irony, this is a Merkin.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
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Post #179,769
10/18/04 2:06:59 PM
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Heh.
I'm just havin' fun with you. :)
It's SO easy!
All I want for my birthday is a new President!
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Post #179,770
10/18/04 2:08:12 PM
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Ever the reply of someone who's Been Had :-p
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
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Post #179,775
10/18/04 2:31:05 PM
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Well, I'm not the one who mistook me for a Merkin.
Ross, I would have understood. Me?
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Post #179,777
10/18/04 2:39:00 PM
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Well, you look like one from here.
Can't comment on the smell, though.
And anyway, here's Torvill & Dean.
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