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RE: Detective Descriptors
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Updated list credits Hic and Arnie for their identifications and additions. Arnie remembers even mo......
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August 11, 2004 05:52
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Hic et ubique is right on the mark. I in turn would hazard that Arnie's elderly detective was Barna......
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August 10, 2004 19:39
RE: The Color of Words
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Two neat links to what I learn is the Stroop test... ......
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August 10, 2004 10:46
RE: The Color of Words
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kalleh's opening disclaimer "not the color of color words" reminds me of a test on psychological int......
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August 10, 2004 10:45
Detective Descriptors
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After an excess of youthful television viewing a list arises spontaneously. Namely, detectives in f......
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August 10, 2004 10:37
Unambiguous Ambiguities
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Sometimes there's is just no arguing that a term is ambiguous. I offer "moped." Does that refer to......
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August 05, 2004 12:27
RE: Varieties of Written Works
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wordcrafter Not unlike the ketchup slogan, I await more varieties. Here of course for written works......
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August 04, 2004 12:32
RE: Group Nouns
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A column of accountants, and, a little closer to home, a table of actuaries....
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July 30, 2004 06:40
RE: Interesting Etymologies
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I ask wordcrafter's indulgence for resurrecting a dormant thread, but bumping into "interesting etym......
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July 09, 2004 18:33
RE: Terms from Mathematics
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Wordcrafter's new entry "iff" sent me back to "Symbolic Logic" by I. M. Copi (MacMillan, 1967). Mem......
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July 08, 2004 09:08
RE: Terms from Mathematics
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I wonder, is a circular argument as bad as a circular definition? I recall something from Jonson, "......
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July 01, 2004 07:16
RE: Terms of Illogic
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Thanks, wordcrafter, for triggering an old memory. Two words came to mind when I saw amphiboly. ("......
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June 23, 2004 06:24
RE: Swords
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Despite the initial admonition, I hope wordcrafter will indulge an interesting passage on foil/epee/......
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June 21, 2004 13:33
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If I may turn the conversation to playing cards, we derive "spade" from the Greek sword... Spade (2......
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June 17, 2004 13:09
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I've never liked the term "virtual reality," on the belief that "reality" ought not take modifiers. ......
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June 15, 2004 10:03
RE: The press reflects on Reagan
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It may be of interest that hegemony is derived from Hegemone, one of the early forms of goddess who ......
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June 12, 2004 07:50
RE: The body, especially joints
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Any chance that "blype" is related to "bleb?" The latter covers the idea of a blister, or more por......
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June 05, 2004 10:03
RE: The body, especially joints
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A Suitor of rare acromion Wooed a lady of beauty anthemion So great was the praise Of his scapular w......
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June 04, 2004 14:30
RE: The body, especially joints
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I presume our goal is rare or interesting words from an external perspective, before the medical pro......
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June 04, 2004 09:24
RE: The body, especially joints
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Wordcrafter has focused us on joints, but alas other words rise unbidden -- The ......
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