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I think I just invented a word.

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    CodeWraith
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    Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

    I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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      Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

      I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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      Well done. Now you should invent the corresponding song as well.

      In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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        Well done. Now you should invent the corresponding song as well.

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        CodeWraith
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        Do you really want me to start singing here? Edit: Are you not from Rome? Then you should know how that worked out in the past[^]!

        I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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          Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

          I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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          CodeWraith wrote:

          Now, how do I get it into a dictionary?

          First turn it into a meme. Then get it on social media. Once it hits one million shares, then they will put it in the dictionary. Just like all the other crap they put in.

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            Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

            I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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            Go here: Urban Dictionary: New Word[^] But ... I have bad news for you: Urban Dictionary: yestersay[^]

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              Go here: Urban Dictionary: New Word[^] But ... I have bad news for you: Urban Dictionary: yestersay[^]

              Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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              CodeWraith
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              Drat! It was too easy, obviously.

              I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                Go here: Urban Dictionary: New Word[^] But ... I have bad news for you: Urban Dictionary: yestersay[^]

                Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                Bet you entered it just now! :doh:

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                  Bet you entered it just now! :doh:

                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                  Mark Twain

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                  Nah - I tried for Ungrade[^] when Windows 10 came out! :laugh:

                  Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    Bet you entered it just now! :doh:

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                    The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                    Winston Churchill, 1944
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                    Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                    Mark Twain

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                    How do you spoof the entry date in UrbanDictionary?

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                      How do you spoof the entry date in UrbanDictionary?

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                      You don't know who he is, do you? :confused: I'll tell you then: He's "Two-Million Points" Griff - Ruler of the Universe (or at least CP)! That's who! :-\ He can fix ANYTHING, I assure you! :doh:

                      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                      The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                      Winston Churchill, 1944
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                      Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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                        Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

                        I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                        But I really hate the concept. I've got this one co-worker where I must keep very close track of what he has heard before, whether it is something relating to me, the news, the working situation or anything: Immediately, when he hears something he has heard before, he cuts me off with a "You told that already!" It is really bothersome when I all the time have to say: "Yes, but Jack [or Jill or whoever] hasn't heard it". I try to remember when he is present to start out with "You have heard this before, but to let Jack hear it as well...". Sometimes when I forget that my co-worker has heard it earlier, and cuts me off, Jack (or whoever I am talking to) steps in and says "But I haven't heard it!" So even though the term "yestersay" is not used, the same idea is stated in different words. And it is very irritating. You must accept to hear something again. You don't have a moral claim to hear brand new things always, all the time. Actually, some of the best storytellers I know, tell the same story again and again, with a little different twist every time, a different emphasis, maybe even some small change in the story. I enjoy it. I say that if a movie isn't worth watching twice, it isn't worth your time to watch it once. If a book isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading in the first place. Knowing how a piece of music ends shouldn't take away the pleasure of hearing it again. If you don't want to hear a story again, you should have walked away the first time. So please restrict you use of "That's just so yestersay!" to situations where an endless repetition is really annoying. Do not make it into a competition to be the first one to recognize what someone is saying so you can yell "Yestersay!" (Like the way too many people are today when you strart a sentence with "I wonder..." or "I'd like to know...": Before you have completed stating what you wander about or would like to know, six smartphones are up on the table, its owners eagerly waiting for the keywords the can google to win the race to be The Winner who can read out loud The Answer. It stresses me immensely. To keep a normal, oldstyle conversation going I try to avoid expressing any uncertainty or wondering in my talking; I know that it could lead to most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones, and it would be very unpolite to continue talking with the rest while they try to "help" me to the answer...)

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                          Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

                          I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                          CodeWraith wrote:

                          Now, how do I get it into a dictionary?

                          Right click -> Add to dictionary. :laugh:

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                            But I really hate the concept. I've got this one co-worker where I must keep very close track of what he has heard before, whether it is something relating to me, the news, the working situation or anything: Immediately, when he hears something he has heard before, he cuts me off with a "You told that already!" It is really bothersome when I all the time have to say: "Yes, but Jack [or Jill or whoever] hasn't heard it". I try to remember when he is present to start out with "You have heard this before, but to let Jack hear it as well...". Sometimes when I forget that my co-worker has heard it earlier, and cuts me off, Jack (or whoever I am talking to) steps in and says "But I haven't heard it!" So even though the term "yestersay" is not used, the same idea is stated in different words. And it is very irritating. You must accept to hear something again. You don't have a moral claim to hear brand new things always, all the time. Actually, some of the best storytellers I know, tell the same story again and again, with a little different twist every time, a different emphasis, maybe even some small change in the story. I enjoy it. I say that if a movie isn't worth watching twice, it isn't worth your time to watch it once. If a book isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading in the first place. Knowing how a piece of music ends shouldn't take away the pleasure of hearing it again. If you don't want to hear a story again, you should have walked away the first time. So please restrict you use of "That's just so yestersay!" to situations where an endless repetition is really annoying. Do not make it into a competition to be the first one to recognize what someone is saying so you can yell "Yestersay!" (Like the way too many people are today when you strart a sentence with "I wonder..." or "I'd like to know...": Before you have completed stating what you wander about or would like to know, six smartphones are up on the table, its owners eagerly waiting for the keywords the can google to win the race to be The Winner who can read out loud The Answer. It stresses me immensely. To keep a normal, oldstyle conversation going I try to avoid expressing any uncertainty or wondering in my talking; I know that it could lead to most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones, and it would be very unpolite to continue talking with the rest while they try to "help" me to the answer...)

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                            CodeWraith
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                            Member 7989122 wrote:

                            most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones

                            There once was a time when I used to laugh about that sort of behavior, long before smartphones even existed. I watched a table full of nerds play Dungeons and Dragons. The game master would say a single sentence and all players would grab one of the books in high stacks next to their chairs, vigorously search for the right page and then interpret some rules in a different way and oppose whatever the game master just said. I bet they all later became lawyers.

                            I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                              Well done. Now you should invent the corresponding song as well.

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                              You mean, the one with the fellow submarine ?

                              Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                                But I really hate the concept. I've got this one co-worker where I must keep very close track of what he has heard before, whether it is something relating to me, the news, the working situation or anything: Immediately, when he hears something he has heard before, he cuts me off with a "You told that already!" It is really bothersome when I all the time have to say: "Yes, but Jack [or Jill or whoever] hasn't heard it". I try to remember when he is present to start out with "You have heard this before, but to let Jack hear it as well...". Sometimes when I forget that my co-worker has heard it earlier, and cuts me off, Jack (or whoever I am talking to) steps in and says "But I haven't heard it!" So even though the term "yestersay" is not used, the same idea is stated in different words. And it is very irritating. You must accept to hear something again. You don't have a moral claim to hear brand new things always, all the time. Actually, some of the best storytellers I know, tell the same story again and again, with a little different twist every time, a different emphasis, maybe even some small change in the story. I enjoy it. I say that if a movie isn't worth watching twice, it isn't worth your time to watch it once. If a book isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading in the first place. Knowing how a piece of music ends shouldn't take away the pleasure of hearing it again. If you don't want to hear a story again, you should have walked away the first time. So please restrict you use of "That's just so yestersay!" to situations where an endless repetition is really annoying. Do not make it into a competition to be the first one to recognize what someone is saying so you can yell "Yestersay!" (Like the way too many people are today when you strart a sentence with "I wonder..." or "I'd like to know...": Before you have completed stating what you wander about or would like to know, six smartphones are up on the table, its owners eagerly waiting for the keywords the can google to win the race to be The Winner who can read out loud The Answer. It stresses me immensely. To keep a normal, oldstyle conversation going I try to avoid expressing any uncertainty or wondering in my talking; I know that it could lead to most of those around the table would dive into their smartphones, and it would be very unpolite to continue talking with the rest while they try to "help" me to the answer...)

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                                - That's yestersay - No, that's callmunicate !

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                                  Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

                                  I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                  Made a song for you, are you happy now ?

                                  Quote:

                                  Yestersay when I was wrong The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish FPS game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built, alas, on weak and shifting operating systems I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years ran away

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                                    Made a song for you, are you happy now ?

                                    Quote:

                                    Yestersay when I was wrong The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish FPS game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built, alas, on weak and shifting operating systems I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years ran away

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                                    CodeWraith
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                                    Ok, now let me sing it... I also found yet another use for the word, when somebody sings a different song than before. 'Did you not yestersay something else?'

                                    I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                      Yestersay It started out as a simple typo, but I think it is quite usable, like in 'You don't yestersay!' when someone comes with some old and boring stuff. Now, how do I get it into a dictionary? It should be worth a few points in Scrabble.

                                      I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                      A favorite word among managers. "Didn't I yestersay to do that?!?!?!" ;)

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                                        Nah - I tried for Ungrade[^] when Windows 10 came out! :laugh:

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                                        CodeWraith
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                                        You misspelled it: It's ungerade[^]

                                        I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                          Ok, now let me sing it... I also found yet another use for the word, when somebody sings a different song than before. 'Did you not yestersay something else?'

                                          I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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                                          Stevie Wonder - Yester me Yester you Yesterday - YouTube[^] :-\

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