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Subject: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Mark Cohen Date: 18 Oct 05 - 11:54 PM It would seem self-evident that the indirect allusion to a particular phenomenon or entity without precisely allocating a literal connotation or denotation, as it were, to its presence in any definite sort of context is a practice that may not be unlike other less-than-ideal rhetorical constructs, which, however valid they may be considered by those with an osseous relic to dissect, are nevertheless honored more in the, shall we say, breach than in the verifiable concrete happenstance that might otherwise be noted. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Elmer Fudd Date: 19 Oct 05 - 12:55 AM Are you sure you weren't aiming for the "Pot and Brain Health" thread there, ol' buddy? Aloha comin' back atcha, Elmer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Gurney Date: 19 Oct 05 - 02:43 AM Eschew obfuscation, wot I say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 19 Oct 05 - 04:44 AM Desist from prevaricating about the bush! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: gnu Date: 19 Oct 05 - 05:10 AM Agreed. Er, ah.. I would like to proffer my reinforcement of this apperception, one might submit elemental tautological hypothesis, as it were, with it's constituent... Ahyup. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Pied Piper Date: 19 Oct 05 - 07:14 AM Such an erudite rotational perambulation around the core off an otherwise intractable causal problem might indeed allow for successive approximation to the answer, by travelling as it were in ever decreasing circles. PP |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Strollin' Johnny Date: 19 Oct 05 - 07:54 AM The feline mammal assumed a sedentary posture upon the interwoven rectangle of secondary floor covering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Oct 05 - 10:53 AM Very nice turn turn turn of phrase, Mark. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Bill D Date: 19 Oct 05 - 11:35 AM Expediency sometimes requires that indirect referential locution be judiciously applied when the juxtaposition of concepts cannot be ascertained to provide adequate allocation of polysyllabic ambiguous circumlocution, which could result in excessive and disquieting comprehension among the ubiquitous participants in the endeavor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Dead Horse Date: 19 Oct 05 - 11:51 AM And here's me thinking that circumlocution was the practise of lopping ones foreskin off with a hotwire gun! Silly me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: GUEST,Chief Chaos Date: 19 Oct 05 - 11:59 AM Shouldn't that post be on the "Vasectomy Stories" thread, Deadhorse? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 Oct 05 - 12:13 PM This particular manifestation of digital communication is achieving the undesired result of increasing the relative pressure within my cranial structure so as to produce a heightened sense of physical distress typified by sensations analagous to those that would be produced if the major percussionist from a philharmonic symphony were to assume residence within said cranial structure. Perhaps it would be judicious and thoroughly appropriate if I were to partake of a generous portion of acetylsalicylic acid followed by a modicum of dihydrogen-monoxide. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Charmion Date: 19 Oct 05 - 12:29 PM I spend my days at work turning this crap into plain English. Yuck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: frogprince Date: 19 Oct 05 - 12:55 PM Dead Horse, you missed the obvious; circumlocution means talking ones foreskin off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Oct 05 - 01:02 PM I would like to say this about that:
-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: pdq Date: 19 Oct 05 - 01:57 PM Now that Mark Cohen lives in the oh-so-hip Santa Cruz Mountains of California, ain't "Aloha" a bit out of place? The good doctor needs a new salute that befits his new home (near Ben Lomond, wasn't it?). May I humbly suggest "Like, redwoods to ya, dudes". Or maybe "happy banana slugs!" OK, OK. I'll keep working on it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Oct 05 - 03:23 PM Hmmm. Don't know that I would think of The Good Dr. Cohen as "hip." He's far too casual to be "hip." I'm not comfortable with "hip" people, and Mark is a very comfortable person to be with. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Oct 05 - 09:37 PM Cute, too! :) (Which has nothing to do with anything) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Ebbie Date: 19 Oct 05 - 10:40 PM Dr. Mark, if you are speaking of firearms, as you indisputably must be, the word is 'breech', not breach. Glad I understood enough to help you out there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: bobad Date: 19 Oct 05 - 10:58 PM Is that an osseous relic in your breeches or are you just riant to make my occular acquaintance? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Oct 05 - 11:21 PM Nope, The Good Doctor means "breach," (infraction or violation) - NOT pants or pantaloons or parts of shotguns. What's making you think of shotguns and men's pants, Ebbie? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Mark Cohen Date: 20 Oct 05 - 02:14 AM The Good Doctor resides in Santa Clara (and so do I). That's in the flats of the South Bay, not in the Santa Cruz mountains. But not far away. Frogprince gets the prize on this thread--brilliant! My favorite circumlocution: "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to be otherwise." (And the source of the quote is...?) Aloha, Mark (You don't let go of the islands that easily--even if it's hard to find fresh Hanalei poi here.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Strollin' Johnny Date: 20 Oct 05 - 08:08 AM Hmmm, you think yourbody everyself, don't I? :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Oct 05 - 10:01 AM Perhaps Mark hatched that thought during A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: GUEST,crazy little woman Date: 20 Oct 05 - 10:29 AM But ya'll are mistaking sesquidpedlianism (use of words a foot-and-a-half-long)for circumlocution (tactful or duplicitous avoiding of the straightforward). Circumlocution would be saying, "The humidity in the house is variable. I believe your instruments have shifted while in play." Instead of "Would you please tune those damn things?" I leave it to someone else to compose a sesquipedlian form. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Mark Cohen Date: 20 Oct 05 - 11:03 AM Touche, clw. I wondered if anyone would notice. Actually, there was a little bit of both--with a fair amount of obfuscation to boot. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: GUEST,Chief Chaos Date: 20 Oct 05 - 01:16 PM From my dictionary: Circumlocution - Bush administration answers to the press corps |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Mark Cohen Date: 21 Oct 05 - 12:49 AM Maggie, you got it, of course. (And almost got me as well--I didn't catch it the first time around.) I wonder if anyone else knows. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Circumlocution: pros and cons From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Oct 05 - 02:36 PM Between the lint-trap brain and Google, oh the places you'll go! (There are some genetics involved in the interest in seeking such answers!) |
