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before I developed my dislike for deadlines. Deadlines suck. I've never liked them.
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Probably one of the worst ways to insult a Japanese, imply they're Chinese, Korean, etc.
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Have you been here from China long?
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We aren't getting to see much of the action in this version. We're only skimming the surface and it's 40 grit sandpaper.
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yclept - Word of the Day - Sat Jul 27, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
Pull this one out at Scrabble. -
yclept - Word of the Day - Sat Jul 27, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
From Old English geclipod. -
Geron, you skillfully showed us the delicate dance of wooing ones heart's desire. It doesn't always work out so well, not even for a prince. Love, real love, can't be bought.
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Yare is uncomfortably close to a poor and barely literate English speaker's version of 'here.' So much so, it makes my skin crawl.
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From Old English gearu.
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I think John Yegg is as apocryphal and real as Keyser Soze. Pinkerton got the yegg term from a burglar with a sense of humor. Before this a yegg was a bum or beggar. The word was corrupted from yekk, a term used by Chinese in Chinatown to describe beggars. Pinkerton went on to speculate there was a nationwide Masonic like order of Yeggs where bands of thieves, each headed by a 'John Yegg', would support their colleagues to the death.
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I know I've heard this in at least one movie, but I can't put a name to it/them.
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A 'Why'd you play ball with a hornet's nest moment?
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Somebody hit Kenji? I want to see the other guy. I wasn't expecting to get to the other arc this fast.
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wainage - Word of the Day - Wed Jul 24, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
The earliest appearance of wainage is in the Magna Carta. -
wainage - Word of the Day - Wed Jul 24, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
From the Latin wainnagium. -
witenagemot - Word of the Day - Tue Jul 23, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
I asked Norman, but he just looked at me funny. -
witenagemot - Word of the Day - Tue Jul 23, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
Well, all those old Anglo Saxons are dead, so we can't ask them. -
Almost phonetic shorthand for the French C'est bon (That's alright).
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witenagemot - Word of the Day - Tue Jul 23, 2024
drpaladin commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
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He destroyed an equally old jasmine vine too.
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These were my grandmother's roses. The moron thought they were just thorn bushes.
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I'd expected this from Ben. Who knows what he'll want next year.
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As with all emotions, there are lots of words to describe them.
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Zzzzzzz... To paraphrase Peter Pan, Living among Bzup kind will be an awfully big adventure. I hope humans don't disappoint them. We have a tendency to it. Marvelous tale as per usual, Geron.
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Thank your lucky stars. The last person who trimmed my 80 plus year old ones killed the crap out of them.
