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  • W WillemM

    *Sips his coffee and gently presses Alt+F4*

    WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson

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      Rajesh R Subramanian
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      The Grand Negus wrote:

      What does Alt+F4 do? Everytime I hit it the window disappears so I can't see the results.

      I think you have a virus in your computer.


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        they've got to be kidding [^] :wtf: if I used any of those words at a company social event, I would surely get very strange looks...even more than I get now :-> Steve

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        If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language. laissez faire ... is French.

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          R Giskard Reventlov
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          At last, a post from you worthy of a 5 and you didn't once use plain English...

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            If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language. laissez faire ... is French.

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            Cedric Moonen
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            V. wrote:

            you are likely to have a superior command of the language.

            They didn't specify which language it was :rolleyes:


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              If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language. laissez faire ... is French.

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              Abu Mami
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              Most(?) words in English have their root in some other language - Latin, Greek, French, and many others (including Yiddish)

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                If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language. laissez faire ... is French.

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                R Giskard Reventlov
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                Much of the English language has developed by including/stealing words and phrases from other languages. This works both ways: take, for instance, the French use of 'Le Breakfast'. The roots of many English words can be traced back to Latin: when I were a lad Latin (and Greek for a year) were a standard part of the curriculum and some Latin is still used; e.g. 'quid pro quo', 'et al' and so on. Sadly I remember little of those lessons since I didn't particular enjoy them as the teacher was not especially good.

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                  V. wrote:

                  you are likely to have a superior command of the language.

                  They didn't specify which language it was :rolleyes:


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                  Dario Solera
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                  Good point! :-D

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                    Much of the English language has developed by including/stealing words and phrases from other languages. This works both ways: take, for instance, the French use of 'Le Breakfast'. The roots of many English words can be traced back to Latin: when I were a lad Latin (and Greek for a year) were a standard part of the curriculum and some Latin is still used; e.g. 'quid pro quo', 'et al' and so on. Sadly I remember little of those lessons since I didn't particular enjoy them as the teacher was not especially good.

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                    Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                    Smorgasbord. :->

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                      I'm going to memorize every single one of these words, and then make a concerted effort to never use any of them.

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                      That is just churlish...

                      regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

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                      And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                        The Grand Negus wrote:

                        What does Alt+F4 do? Everytime I hit it the window disappears so I can't see the results.

                        I think you have a virus in your computer.


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                        Paul Watson
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                        Windows eh?

                        regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                        Shog9 wrote:

                        And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                          they've got to be kidding [^] :wtf: if I used any of those words at a company social event, I would surely get very strange looks...even more than I get now :-> Steve

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                          "Euro" is a word many people graduating in the USA don't know? Crikey. I see they slipped "impeach" in there. Guess we know which side of the political divide wrote this list. "plagiarize" made me laugh. Ten bucks says the people who don't know the word sure know how to do it. And now my challenge, to all ye guttersnipes wot English use badly; List the letters of the alphabet not represented in the list (as used at the start of the word only.)

                          regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

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                          And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                            Windows eh?

                            regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                            Shog9 wrote:

                            And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                            No, the 10 fingered kind :)

                            The tigress is here :-D

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                              No, the 10 fingered kind :)

                              The tigress is here :-D

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                              Oh god no, not users!

                              regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

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                              And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                                It's some kind of weird system operation. It seems to close applications... Handy in some cases ;P You might want to mail microsoft about it, maybe they fix it in the next version of Windows.

                                WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson

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                                  Smorgasbord. :->

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                                  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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                                    they've got to be kidding [^] :wtf: if I used any of those words at a company social event, I would surely get very strange looks...even more than I get now :-> Steve

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                                    vehement hey - I Know that! :D notarize bowdlerize yuck. substantized words.


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                                      they've got to be kidding [^] :wtf: if I used any of those words at a company social event, I would surely get very strange looks...even more than I get now :-> Steve

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                                      They missed out "Do", "you", "want", "fries", "with" and "that".

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                                        The Grand Negus wrote:

                                        What does Alt+F4 do? Everytime I hit it the window disappears so I can't see the results.

                                        The Alt+F4 combo will never work, when you desperately want it to work. When you hit it by mistake, it never fails to work. :-D


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                                          they've got to be kidding [^] :wtf: if I used any of those words at a company social event, I would surely get very strange looks...even more than I get now :-> Steve

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                                          Great addition to BS generators' dictionary :)


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