Guest Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 30 minutes ago, person0 said: ... although I doubt such is the case. I don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
person0 Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 1 minute ago, Carborendum said: Uhhhmmmm... Oh. I see you have auto-correct too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted April 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 14 minutes ago, person0 said: Auto-correct. You mean auto-incorrect? person0 and Sunday21 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) 15 minutes ago, person0 said: Oh. I see you have auto-correct too! My articulation of incertitude was motivated by personal and unequivocal juxtaposition with reality. The ability of silico-sentient machinations is confined to the lexicon it is wherewith afforded. The antecedent verbiage in question was utterly absent therefrom. Therefore, the earlier pronouncement is proven false. Q.E.D. Edited April 23, 2018 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
person0 Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) 12 minutes ago, zil said: You mean auto-incorrect? Isn't it the same thing? I was just following rajj's example. I think he had the right idea of how to claim auto-correct. Edited April 23, 2018 by person0 zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 I am placing elements of this thread into a vision board. It is not a physical vision board, I envision this vision board. And I gotta say, half of y'all are up twice as much in the night as the other half wish they could be. zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 Pettyflogging seems apt given the miscreant in question... https://www.google.ca/search?q=pettifogging&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-ca&client=safari zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 (edited) 17 hours ago, Carborendum said: Discovering the aforementioned summons to contest, the resident sesquipedalian upholds said gauntlet with declaration of malice. And lacking in judicial accreditation, the site chevalier offers his meager artistry in such endeavor as to render the deft adoption of prevailing electronic automation indispensable. Such automation obtained and having utilized forthwith, the product of such industry is hereby granted to provide witness to the capacity of the hireling who dares such provocation. I thought I should offer a translation. Equally fun. ********************************** I just came across this really creative suggestion for a thread. I think I could have fun with this. But since I'm no lawyer, i'll use Thesaurus.com. I'm adept like that. So, this is what I came up with. Is it any good? Edited April 24, 2018 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 4 minutes ago, Carborendum said: I thought I should offer a translation. Equally fun. ********************************** I just came across this really creative suggestion for a thread. I think I could have fun with this. But since I'm no lawyer, i'll use Thesaurus.com. I'm adept like that. So, this is what I came up with. Is it any good? I found this perfect podcast to fall asleep to! It is a discussion of various legal proceedings in Washington DC! I can’t undestand a word! Brilliant! zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anatess2 Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 22 hours ago, zil said: I think we should start a thread for the sole purpose of seeing if we can out-word @Just_A_Guy. Oh, you mean a @Just_A_Guy vs @Vort vs @Carborendum three-way wordsmithery battle! Fun. 21 hours ago, zil said: Nope, must be English. Well, @Just_A_Guy has a penchant for responding in Latin so... zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted April 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 This is a good opportunity for ultracrepidarians and aeolists alike to flaunt their sciolism. It's also a good place to mention that I've recently learned that one of the forum's posters suffers from aeipathy. Sunday21 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 There's more ways to be wordy than just words. There's also bureaucratic naming conventions. I once held an R&D Budget Process Performance Improvement Project Meeting pre-meeting. I am telling the truth. I am not proud, but neither am I ashamed. Sunday21 and zil 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just_A_Guy Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 47 minutes ago, anatess2 said: Well, @Just_A_Guy has a penchant for responding in Latin so... O tempora! O mores! anatess2 and zil 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2018 Report Share Posted April 24, 2018 2 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said: O tempora! O mores! That reminds me. What is that book that everyone uses to learn Latin? I was under the impression it started with dividing Rome into four parts or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anatess2 Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 6 hours ago, Carborendum said: That reminds me. What is that book that everyone uses to learn Latin? I was under the impression it started with dividing Rome into four parts or something like that. Catholic Catechism. mordorbund 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 14 hours ago, NeuroTypical said: There's more ways to be wordy than just words. There's also bureaucratic naming conventions. I once held an R&D Budget Process Performance Improvement Project Meeting pre-meeting. I am telling the truth. I am not proud, but neither am I ashamed. I once worked for the Post Office, they insisted straight faced that mailboxes be called Street Furniture. Really! NeuroTypical and zil 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted April 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Sunday21 said: I once worked for the Post Office, they insisted straight faced that mailboxes be called Street Furniture. Really! In the fountain pen review world, there are a lot of people who call things like clips, cap bands, decorative rings, piston knobs, finials and the like "furniture". Other people call them "hardware". Somewhere (pretty sure it's in Guyland) they feel the need to do this. Whatever. Sunday21 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 8, 2018 Report Share Posted May 8, 2018 A couple months ago I got this bunch of fireworks from a friend who was tired of storing them from last year. They've been sitting on my office shelf. My son comes and asks what this long stick thing was. I didn't know. We looked at it more closely and found some peculiarities existed that set it apart from sparklers (which these bore a resemblance to). Since there was a lighter just 6 inches away from me, we decided that A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION was in order. So I called forth my boys to go outside with me -- in the interests of scientific discovery, of course -- to light the dang thing. We lit and I asked the boys what they thought. "Yup it's a giant sparkler." "A-HEM. This is a technical investigation. That is a controlled combustible device which generates photonic energy in a largely linear path as opposed to a radial one." We further observed that the combustibles were reacting in a controlled, but violent rate while the inflammable ligno-cellulosic fibers were undergoing exothermic inter-molecular reaction at a decidedly slower rate. Meanwhile the products of incomplete combustion were being subject to lateral motion due to the presence of the ambient condition of atmospheric imbalance of temperature and pressure. Soon equilibrium was achieved and an interruption in the exothermic process was evident. This resulted in a slowing of the reaction which was then overcome as the ligno-cellulosic fibers burned at a rate to remove excess clinker from the burn path. The original process continued until the fuel source was exhausted. My son said,"This is exactly why politicians can get away with talking like that." I responded,"I'd challenge most politicians to talk like that." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Godless Posted May 8, 2018 Report Share Posted May 8, 2018 People who confuse entomology and etymology bug me more than I can put into words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 12, 2018 Report Share Posted May 12, 2018 My son just texted this to me earlier today. Quote To the biological male parent of mine, I thy male offspring currently at the abode of the family W.... is now no longer working muscular organs professionally, and would greatly appreciate it if thou wouldst travel to the aforementioned work site to gather thy offspring and bring them to their residential abode. Not bad for a 15 year old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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