Up Front: A Word in Your Ear
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He's like Maxwell Smart, Islander, only.......smarter.
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Islander - the ability to translate specialist jargon for the lay-person without dumbing it down is rare and precious indeed.
Yes this. TEFL teachers of any merit learn that just because people can't speak English, doesn't mean you have to shout and treat them like idiots.
There's also a fine line between being articulate and being a smug, patronising smart-arse.
It pays to read back in the thread sometimes.
a limb report
yes, those do seem to be prosthetic legs stacked under the house
My limbic system needs maintenance. Any limbic dances out there?
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A little bit o true story
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Now where's my shoe-phone? :)
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Very nice, but why no prosthetic for pooch?
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Can't remember being told about that, but I know Boiski came into Tim's life already accustomed to 3 legs. Maybe they tried one and he didn't like it? Died since this film was made.
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but would still prefer to look more like Sara Palin, than sound like her.
Linda, you make Palin look like a pig without lipstick and I would rather hear what you had to say than that Pitbull any day.
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<hits a smooth number on the jukebox>
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There's also a fine line between being articulate and being a smug, patronising smart-arse.
Yeah, an' if anyone goes sesquipedalian on yo arse s/he ain't articulate.
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The point of being articulate is to persuade and communicate, not show off special knowledge of wanky educated dialect. The latter is the verbal equivalent of puffing up your chest bigger than the other primate's. Which also wins arguments and conveys privilege, but it's less sporting.
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I enjoy articulate people. Smug wankers, not so much.
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Yes, but often my articulate person is your smug wanker, no? It's not so much a fine line as something that depends on whether you agree or not with what they have to say.
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A little bit o true story
Beautiful. Don't feel so bad having prompted the posting of this.
sesquipedalian
Yes, especially for those with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
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something that depends on whether you agree or not with what they have to say
For me it's more *how* they say it - can handle different ideas, though that doesn't mean I'll go easy on poorly-thought-out ones either.
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hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
That woid's so long it won't load, or is it my connection?
I can still watch my auction on Trademe, which is closing ....closing ....closing....hoping no one puts in another bid 'cause it will be another 3 mins of closing ....closing.....closing.
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Try this maybe? Wiktionary.
Why does it do that!
They get more commission I guess. It is very annoying though. You think 'Yusss, I've won', and then 'Oh, who's that bloody trying to outbid me now?' Bloody 'auto-extension'.
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Oh, for a sodding muse of fire that would ascend
The brightest heaven of effing invention,
And bloody well help me to portend
According to my bollocking intention.
Oh, for a sodding muse to help me tell my story
With rhyme and tmesis fit to bugger aliens;
Alas that I am so inarticulafuckingtory
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Absofuckinawesomethingorotherlutely!
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Absofuckinawesomethingorotherlutely!
That'll learn them hairy-arsed sesquipebastardalians.
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3410,
Bravo, Philip.
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That'll learn them hairy-arsed sesquipebastardalians.
Yeah! on your Pony said to no one in particular Nice poetree that man.
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We must desist from being anti
and it is on the whole remiss to dis,
but surely 'tis just to mock establishment
of any creed who purport Arian
syllogisms or other fey ism(s).Innit?
Are we there yet?
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Possibly, assuming that excessive floccinaucinihilipilification does not induce pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis.
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I married Irish. I'm used to losing arguments. Well, at least that's what she thinks.
ROFLNUI - In my own head I have never lost an argument. Meanwhile on planet earth.
In true Irish style the object of an argument is never the search for truth: it is the display of words, facts, dates most of which are made up on the spot.
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I still have great admiration for Dave Barry and his wonderful How to Win Arguments of which this is a bit...
* Compare your opponent to Adolf Hitler.
This is your heavy artillery, for when your opponent is obviously right and you are spectacularly wrong. Bring Hitler up subtly. Say: "That sounds suspiciously like something Adolf Hitler might say" or "You certainly do remind me of Adolf Hitler."
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