Friday, June 19, 2015



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  1. When you say "wept," I assume you mean "into your bourbon." Right?

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  2. If you exchange the meanings of the blue and orange slices, that would better describe my week.

    Topic for conversation: Why is "golf" one of the few pastime nouns that withstands verbing?

    I shall now golf, tennis, pool, poker, football, etc.

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  3. Somebody needs some papers to grade. C'mon over.

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  4. Shouldn't there be a slice for "Sorted mail into two piles: one to ignore and the other to ridicule at a later date"? I'm sure I read that this was one of the core moderation duties.

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    1. Nah. We received two emails all week. One asked if we knew his password. One told us she had forgotten her password.

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    2. You should get those two together.

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    3. Oh, jeez, was this me? I feel like it was me.

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    4. cynic, it the examples were an amalgam...just to show the types of email and the amount...no aspersions!!!

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  5. Can't thread while I phone, but I can list more verbing nouns: kayak, canoe, bike, skate, sail, hike. All of these rock more than shopping or clubbing.

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    1. I had thought of boating and sailing, but stopped there. If there's a pattern, maybe it's that many of the verbed activities involve a device, e.g. "to kayak" is equivalent to "to use a kayak for its intended purpose." Many activities that aren't typically verbed involve a "game" which is "played".

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