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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:56:29 EST
From:         Frank <ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cut it out/ question
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>From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)" <TA0SHK1@NIU.BITNET>
>
[info in Cyrillic fonts for IBM clones deleted]
>Steve Karlson
>
>Spaikono noch

Um, that would be "spokojnoj nochi."  It is in the genitive case,
as it is an elypted form (from the longer "Zhelaju Vam spokojnoj nochi.").

In English:  Good night.  (from:  I wish you [a] good night.)

Frank
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Date: 12 Nov 92 17:18:23 GMT
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>Um, that would be "spokojnoj nochi."  It is in the genitive case,
>as it is an elypted form (from the longer "Zhelaju Vam spokojnoj nochi.").

Um, that would be "an ellipsis for the longer ..."--as opposed to an elision.

-K

-Mka
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Clinton's 'Mandate'
Date: 6 Nov 1992 04:09:19 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>Say, is it my imagination or is there a correlation between excessively
>zealous Christianity and Republicanism?  If there is, why should that be?
Just one question Graham, what's "excessively zealous" Christianity?  If you
mean rule-bound anal-retentives, no - the Democrats have plenty of those
too.  The vociferous Orel Robertsians have sided with Republicans lately
because they Republicans took their PAC money.:-)

>Do you think it might be genetic?
I doubt it, not unless excessively overboard atheism and agnosticism are too.


Ruth
"non-political practicing Christian and all-around nonconformist" H.
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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From: TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU (Blue eyes cryin' in the rain)
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Subject: Re: Orza questions
Date: 11 Nov 92 15:36:00 GMT
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Another e-oops...

Pretend you're STATLG-L, ok?

neal
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: the truth about judith
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:33:27 GMT

	Yes, this is in *much* better keeping with my first impression
of Mama Judith.



-- 
Rita Marie Rouvalis              rita@eff.org 
Electronic Frontier Foundation   | And he spun himself right down 
155 Second Street                | into the ground. Now wasn't that 
Cambridge, MA 02141 617-864-0665 | lucky?  --Deadsy 
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:26:16 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Disinterested, disinterred...
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On Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:13:34 CST, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:
> >first time since we spoke, I've seen one of those words in print:
> >in the Independent (newspaper) Magazine (supplement) I found
> >tonight "Still, I am hardly a disinterested judge..."
>
> I am slightly confused about what THAT shows. That someone who writes
> for the Independent uses "disinterested" to mean disinterested (while
> writing)?

It's not supposed to show anything.  It's a datum to be filed until
we have enough of them to draw conclusions!

G
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:46:16 -0700
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Trailer Parks

There was some discussion on one of the met.lists regarding trailers
vis-a-vis their role as "tornado magnets"...it was finally decided that
localized cyclonic winds were caused by propane...  8-)

JMW
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Clinton's "Mandate" 
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:43:35 GMT

[re: repubs dildoing the populace]

jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas) writes:
> Heh! A touching sentiment with a flourishing key stroke, but not everybody
> shares such penetrating views. Especially when non-consensual.

So you'll understand when I complain about being dildoed by Gore's buddies?

--karsten

(I can already feel the Dems' hands in my pants, but so far they're just
 trying to find my wallet)
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Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:18:55 EST
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      The Old Computers
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	Well, besides FWP's post, which was dead-on, I'll just
add one last comment as to why these fine speciments of 20-year
-old technology weren't visited upon poor, unsuspecting Third
World countries -- none of it worked!

	Honest to Ghopod, Agnes, if *anybody* can find a use for
old hardware, it's the BCS -- that's all they do.  And if they can't
use it, lots of time they send it to the Computer Museum.  If they
don't want it, it's landfill fodder.  At least this way they were able
to raise a nice sum of money, and use that to fund computer-literacy
activities for the Third World at home.

Rita
Typing on her 1984-vintage VT52-emulator.
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Date:         Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:59:43 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: UUCP Mail
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> But you have a lot of disc space, right?  I hope?  Unlike some others in
> here, eh Don?

I don't save delivery-error messages.  :-)
(And our mailspool space isn't part of our own disk space.  So far, I've
not heard of any limitations on amount of incoming mail allowed.  I have
heard of people who've neglected to check their mail for weeks and have
logged on to find thousands of pieces of unread mail waiting for them.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:20:23 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Clear the air
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	>4). Czarina: Rita was telling me this the other day, but I've already
	>             forgotten ;-)

	If you only acknowledged the other things you have forgotten, jeez.

Paradoxically, this means in fact that she remembers most clearly where
Rita got her nickname, and I suspect it has little to do with this list.

Though I could be wrong on that :)

G
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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:36:01 EST
From:         ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: The Democrats and Me
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Posted by Graham

>:p.s. Does anyone know anything about recessive accents ?
>
>Could you be more specific?  'How long is a piece of string?'  (255 chars
>or it overflows the length byte...)

Say what? And I thought it was only Scottish *movies* I needed subtitles for.

                  b.c.

P.S. Judith showed me photos. You're so much younger than I had imagined.
From: R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn)
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Subject: Danger
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:30:39 GMT
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I see danger to this list and to this group of friends we call "words-l."
This past weekend's posts scare me; I grew up in a family whose arguments
were really personal attacks, and the posts from this weekend remind me
of my childhood.

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:03:06 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: God and Dowsing
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:56:30 GMT, "(Jim Thomas)" <jthomas@NETSYS.COM> wrote:
> Wierd, dowsing is. I've been mucking about with "bottling" (looking for
> old bottles in out of the way places), and some of the local
> vets at it swear that dowsing works. They practice it to find where

It's deceptively easy to convince yourself that something makes sense
if you have a couple of lucky incidents, and you are an optimist.
Scientific research in all sorts of fields is riddled with Type I errors,
which is why it's important to teach scientists about experimental
strategy, scientific method, and statistics as well as their main field.

> the ground has been disturbed. I saw a demonstration (to thin wires
> purchased at any hardware), and there seems to be something to it. Some
> area farmers I mentioned this to were surprised at my surprise, and they
> claimed that many of them use it when digging to determine where old
> water pipes or other underground problems might occur. Apparently
> not everybody can do it. My bottling partner's partner is quite adept.
> He and I are not.

Like Tarot readings, there *may* be a real phenomenon at work here, but
it doesn't need psychic powers to explain it.  People are aware of
much more information from their surroundings than they can consciously
enumerate, and the twigs/whatever may be a non-conscious way of signalling
that information.  I know people who read tarot who do *not* believe in
any psychic significance, but deliberately use it as a way of getting
the trust of their subjects to do a spot of amateur psychology on them.
They're quite open about it, off the record.  (The 'real phenomenon' in
tarot reading being the readers ability to make decisions about a person
based on their conversation and body-language, and their skill at getting
more out of them by leading with bland statements which the readee reads
more into than was explicitly given)

G
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Help on a word?
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:49:20 GMT

Friends -- did my plea wrt symbolism/reification not get out past eniac, or
are you all <stumped>, or wh?  Thought I'd have heard from at least
one pedant by now :-)


--bayla
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:52:24 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: the truth about judith (try no. 2
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Posted by the Dowager Leatheress

>Blommy, sweetheart, you forgot to tell them the *GOOD* part!

That, my most awesome madame, I leave to you.

>
>love, judith

b.c., your cowering cowherd
From: gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: A thought...
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:16:30 GMT
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:>Is US English is consistently moving from 'ae' to 'e' in Latin-derived
:>words, how do you/will you distinguish between pediatrics and paediatrics?

:>Or do you have an alternative (sorry, I mean alternate) word for either
:>of those?

:	Graham, you're being redundant here.  They're the same thing.

:	Or are you referring to 'podiatry'?  That's foot doctoring.
:	Confusingly, it used to be called 'chiropody.'

Oh bugger, right - that's a Greek one rather than Latin.  i wish they'd
be consistent.

I'll have to go put it back in my English/US translation file. Grump.

G
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:35:42 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Digests
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The following files have been added to ftp directory docs/words-l/List-Stuff:

653        digest1                   first list digest
692        digest2                   Oct. 11 - 18, 1992
643        digest3                   Oct. 18 - 25, 1992
635        digest4                   Oct. 26 - Nov. 1, 1992
1045       digest5                   Nov. 2 - Nov. 8, 1992

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:30:15 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Colorado
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:06:13 CST, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> drafting of any new legislation.  The amendment was spearheaded by a
> right-wing organization inappropriately self-named Colorado Family
> Values (CFV).  It is our understanding that they have no intention of
> stopping their hate campaign here; they intended to push for
> legislation with a stronger discriminatory flavor here in Colorado and
> surrounding states.

As I said, thin end of the wedge.  This is why I didn't just shut up, Rita.

G
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:03:58 -0500
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: One simple (?!) question
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
              Nov 10, 92 12:07 am

>
> Posted by tushar
>
> >Some questions about names:
> >
> >>Zsuzsanna Budapest
> >
> >Is this a real name? Especially "Zsuzsanna" - is there a language where
> >the name is really spelt that way?
>
> This is indeed good Hungarian (if that isn't an oxymoron).
						^^^^^^^^^

						Ah..._excuse_ me?
						Do you really
						expect to get laughs
						from this rather
						cheap and ignorant
						throwaway remark?
						Shame on you.

"Zs" is pronounced
> like "s" in "pleasure". Budapest (pronounced -pesht) is, I would imagine,
> a nom de seance.
	???
Agnes
A good Hungarian
From: ST402747@brownvm.brown.edu (blomberg cepeda)
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Date: 10 Nov 92 19:49:51 GMT
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Neal, my man, I _am_ impressed! You subscribe to WORDS, and the Berlin Wall
crumbles! What did you subscribe to in August 1991? (Just curious)

A note to Brunonians and to those trying to wage flame wars therewith:
       BRUNO, our reader, has been horribly backed up--no WORDS stuff at all
got through yesterday between noon and five EST. Our mail, on the other hand,
is always fairly fast. Thus, yesterday I received mail from Torkel, and had
answered it, hours before I knew that it was on a subject which had arisen on
the list.
       However, for those BROWNVM's out there, the way to get around this
*usually* is:

       library grand
       library tcpip
       library comdsk
       mdisk ckbeta
       tdisk 10 (probably too much, but hey, it works for me)
                (this step takes a while)
       bnn get bit.listserv.words-l
       bruno read nn allt with any Bruno qualifiers you want
After the first time, just bnn read bit.etc will work fine.

Happy trails, b.c.
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: religious flames (was: amendment 2
Date: 8 Nov 92 10:56:21 GMT
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[I tried to post this last night, when things started getting hairy, but my 
mailer wouldn't take it.]  

Here we go again, people having their <hot buttons> pushed, and I can't
stay out of it...

All Ruth "revealed" in that e-oops was that she's a Christian, something
nobody who's been paying any attention will be surprised by.  

Graham, smarting from some other source, immediately equated Christian with
hypocrite, gay-basher, discriminator, and bigot.  I can't quite blame him,
there are areas where I'm hypersensitive myself.  He believes I
misinterpreted an innocent request for information, for example.

Ruth got insulted.  In an effort to explain the difference between 'loving
the person' and 'hating the behavior' she used the example of alcoholism.
She did NOT equate alcoholism with homosexuality, nor did she offer at any
time to 'save' Graham or anyone else, nor did she defend bigots nor
identify with them.  

jim thomas thought she had, and slammed her for it. (Were this a humorous
situation, I might make remarks about 'knee-jerk liberals', but in this
case I would be severely misunderstood.)  *All* our knees are jerking, and
it's not funny at all.  jim's got a point: rehetoric similar to ruth's has
cloaked bigotry often enough.We haven't seen any bigotry from Ruth, though,
and she ought to have the benefit of presumed innocence until *she*
commits a bigoted posting.  What she's done so far has been to defend
herself and try to illustrate her own beliefs -- not to push them on others.  

As you all know, I too hold some deep-seated beliefs.  Do I think Ruth's a
sinner?  Sure.  Graham? yup.  Me? You betcha.  Do remember, please, that
while the Christian God is supposed to be all-loving and all-forgiving,
-my- God is popularly supposed to be a fire-breathing bigot.  However,
there seems to be room enough in God's love for all us sinners.  Re-read
Exodus if you think the Hebrews were an easy people to loove!  I can almost
-hear- the (anachronistic, I'm sure) Yiddish accent to the whining: What's
the matter, there weren't enough graves in Egypt, you had to bring us out
-here- to die?  Fortunately, God turns out to be just as stubborn as anyone
else: the chosen people stay chosen, like it or not.  And while I'm at it
-- chosen for what? some sort of favorites?  No, it's chosen to bear the
burden of the Law, to be an example to other nations, and heaven will most
definitely *not* help us if we stray!  

How does that make me a hypocrite?  Neither Ruth, nor I, nor the other
believers on the List have made a secret of our vaues.  We've managed to
respect, tolerate, and otherwise get along with each other, just as we have
with our other <philosophical> differences.   

Okay, if you still want to <vomit> all over each otheer, go right ahead.
Just don't think you're <being logical> or <responding to what's been
-posted->.  You're all <reading between the lines>.

<disgustedly> -- bayla





  







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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:40:14 EST
From:         Frank <ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: amendment 2
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>From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
>
>: And look how much good that did.<grin>  Religion in general in the Soviet
>: Union is coming back out of the closet with a vengeance.:-)  My point
>
>Say Frank, Blommie - got any comments on religion in the exUSSR?  We had
>an interesting documentary here showing right-wing US fundies sending
>in people by the busload to prey apon the people who're starting to
>experience open religion for the first time.

Never fear, Graham.  As soon as the Russians find out about the
prohibition of alcohol that is a part of joining the sects doing
the most proselytizing, the interest will wane.  Remember how the
Russians got their religion in the first place.

>superstition, and UFO fanaticism are also coming out of the USSR closet
>with a vengeance too.  Casts an interesting light on what people turn
>to in times of stress.

To my disgust, one of the most popular figures in the USSR when I was
in Moscow in 1990 was a charlatan named Kashpirovsky who did faith
healings over the television, and at shows for admission-paying
customers.  The fascination many Russians showed for horoscopes and
the occult did not encourage me.  And this was while it was still
the Soviet Union.  Fu!  Gadost'!  (Akio:  Russian expressions of
disgust).
>
>G

Frank
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>AUSBROOK>  Is it safe to <come out> now?
>
>Ye Gods!  *Another* one!
>
>G


Your so . . . <quick>, Graham.

-K

-Mka
d
From: 185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU ((Alec D. Plotkin))
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Subject: Re: On the whole, I'd rather be in
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:39:00 GMT
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>NOT

>>Wasn't it Philadelphia that inspired David Lynch?
>>
>>Evelyn

>With all due respect to Alec, Philadelphia is the most horrible city in
>America.  Lynch merely said that it is the most sinister.

The Philly discussion again? I thought we beat that discussion into the
ground.

>And the only view of the skyline that is worth anything is on 34th street, by
>the zoo but up the street a little, just before a bridge that goes over some
>tracks.  (Check it out, Alec.)

I have checked that view out many times. But, in my humble opinion,
Belmont Plateau has much better view. The reason being it is higher
above my fair city.

>Fortunately the tracks and roads that lead into the city also lead out.
Boo Hiss

>Apropos the bombing of MOVE by Mayor Goode (somehow the FBI could never quite
>pin the order on him): Black Thursday.  Black mayor, black chief of police,
>black fire commissioner.  Else the whole city had burned.  More the pity.

I agree it was mishandled. It was a mess. I should know, I lived
18 blocks from that catastrophe.

>-K

>-Mka

God Bless the County and City of Philadelphia.

alec
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From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      help on a word

whatever happened to good old 'apostate'?

JAG
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 5 Nov 92 14:09:28
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In-reply-to: Dan Lester's message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:29:26 MST

Dan elucidates:


   or so.  Also, since Utah is becoming "less mormon" than it used to be,
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
<Fondly> known as "jack" Mormons in my pop's fambly.

//anne, whose "Mormon" cousines didn't last long as strict Mormons//
From: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Date: 12 Nov 92 03:09:04 GMT
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>Bichabum! It was an intellectually stimulating pastime.... It also may help
>to explain why the average age of this list is higher than other lists.
>People of my generation are more familiar with the use of 'words' to express
>meaning rather than 'cliched invectives'.

Are you annoyed? It begins to sound almost as if you were annoyed. I was
merely pointing out that over the generations, as more and more ordinary
human beings go to school, the situation regarding such words has normalized
too. Chanting supra-something possibly impressed kids then, but now it is
something most calculated to get you branded as a twit.

There are subtle distinctions. Saying floccinaucinihilipilification will
make people wonder whether you think you are an Eton boy or Harrow, but
saying supracalifragilisticexpialidocious will merely make them certain
that you are an insufferable twit.

Expressing these complicated thoughts is sometimes difficult, so I have to
take recourse to very very cliched invectives instead of, like, words.

tushar
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