BS: Philology

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: Greg F.
Date: 15 Apr 11 - 08:05 PM

Accept it or don't, asshole. I don't have to prove anything...

Good job of confirming my suspicions. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 05:56 AM

Also as you have probably noticed Greg, no sense of humor either.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: Greg F.
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 10:04 AM

Well, Spaw, when the aliens beam these explanations into his head he's forced to accept them as absolute fact under threat they'll abduct him & torture him again.

I wouldn't want to be in that position, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: josepp
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 11:22 AM

////Also as you have probably noticed Greg, no sense of humor either.////

Yeah, no kidding.

////*grin*...'ex' is a has been, and 'spurt' is a drip under pressure. It's clear as mud, cat.////

Ah,ha! Sorry, it was a slow day yesterday and even slower today since I was out til 4 am.

Expert, of course, shares the same root with "experience."   It comes from the Latin "experiri" ot "to try". Experiment is another variation obviously.

The "ex" really comes from "ax" or "axe" and indicates cutting or separating or removing. Hence ex-wife, excision, exorcise, exorbitant, extend, exact, etc. I don't think it applies to expert in that sense but it might.

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: josepp
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 11:29 AM

///Good job of confirming my suspicions. Thanks.///

If you want people to respond to you in an approving manner, you ASK NICELY. You don't pick a fight. When you pick a fight, you get your ass kicked and it proves nothing except that you're an asshole.

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: Greg F.
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 01:01 PM

Gotchs, friend. Asking for sources and facts rather than wild speculation & spurious nonsense is "picking a fight".

Get a life. Or better yet, a brain.

PS: its alien abduction causes Autism, ya know? Those horrific experiments.....

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 01:16 PM

DigereeDooDoo   
Wettest crap humanly possible that a person can take
"After a crazy night of partying and take-out I took the worst DigereeDooDoo, it smelt sacreligious and wrong...""

Fuck You Tax
A non-discretionary charge or fee placed on orders or purchases from certain companies, frequently ticket retailers and cinemas. The charge never relates to a specific cost incurred by the company and is purely an additional fee to boost profits. So called as the company in question knows the consumer has no option but to pay, so their charging it is the company saying, "Fuck You, Pay it."
£1.50 'Booking fee' on my cinema tickets - that's just a 'Fuck You tax'!
Source, Urban Dictionary

Subject: RE: BS: Philology
From: josepp
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 02:29 PM

///DigereeDooDoo   
Wettest crap humanly possible that a person can take
"After a crazy night of partying and take-out I took the worst DigereeDooDoo, it smelt sacreligious and wrong...""////

I had one of those this morning--a fitting retribution for last night's shameless debauchery.

Regard "ex" meaning to cut or remove and actually being the word "ax" I just remembered "ex calibur" Arthur's sword. It means "cut precisely" or IOW a precision axe. Pretty neato, eh?