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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 10:53:09 PM   
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sesquipedalian words mean.


Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:15:31 PM   
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Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu is a good place for a picnic.
warspite1

Picnic? Well you certainly get a mouthful going there.





That would be Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - Welsh for dont talk with your mouth full of Welsh rabbit



That would be Welsh rarebit - it's just pronounced like "rabbit".

Here's someone who is not Welsh trying to pronounce those really long Welsh place names - c'mon man, spit it out!
And we are not being pedantic - just pediatric mixed with a bit of geriatric.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:17:16 PM   
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sesquipedalian words mean.


Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?


warspite1

No, we are trying to be funny.....

...but clearly not succeeding


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:21:12 PM   
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Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu is a good place for a picnic.
warspite1

Picnic? Well you certainly get a mouthful going there.





That would be Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - Welsh for dont talk with your mouth full of Welsh rabbit



That would be Welsh rarebit - it's just pronounced like "rabbit".

Here's someone who is not Welsh trying to pronounce those really long Welsh place names - c'mon man, spit it out!
And we are not being pedantic - just pediatric mixed with a bit of geriatric.
warspite1

What was that great line in Blackadder about asking for directions in Wales?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnl3N1RQedE


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:23:59 PM   
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sesquipedalian words mean.


Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?


warspite1

No, we are trying to be funny.....

...but clearly not succeeding


Clearly several of you did succeed.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:25:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		And by looking up a certain word I fount this sentence...

The most common use of "antidisestablishmentarianism" is as an example of a sesquipedalian word.



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:28:06 PM   
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That would be Welsh rarebit - it's just pronounced like "rabbit".


Yea, write..... next you will be telling me about Wherewolfs

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:30:16 PM   
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And by looking up a certain word I fount this sentence...

The most common use of "antidisestablishmentarianism" is as an example of a sesquipedalian word.


warspite1

Time for another Blackadder line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGHr-_bIdQ8


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:30:22 PM   
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No, we are trying to be funny.....

...but clearly not succeeding


I wouldn't say that, I've got a big smile on my face.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:35:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		A reseacher was in the local library researching the American Civil War. Reading Northern reports taken from Rebel POWs, he was trying to locate Aug Creek.
Finally he asked a local, who told him how to get to Hog Creek.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:41:33 PM   
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sesquipedalian words mean.


Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?




No, antisesquipedantic, which involves hopping around on one foot, trying to kick yourself in the butt with the other while spouting nonsense. Well played warspite1.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:41:44 PM   
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And by looking up a certain word I fount this sentence...

The most common use of "antidisestablishmentarianism" is as an example of a sesquipedalian word.


warspite1

Time for another Blackadder line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGHr-_bIdQ8




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:43:47 PM   
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A reseacher was in the local library researching the American Civil War. Reading Northern reports taken from Rebel POWs, he was trying to locate Aug Creek.
Finally he asked a local, who told him how to get to Hog Creek.



Thank you for sharing.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:44:23 PM   
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sesquipedalian words mean.


Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?




No, antisesquipedantic, which involves hopping around on one foot, trying to kick yourself in the butt with the other while spouting nonsense. Well played warspite1.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:46:46 PM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFHXMQP-QU

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:52:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh, dear, I'm going to have to define that word for everyone. It is about sending Ralphie's dad, Old Man Parker, his major award to the wrong address in Northern California by expedited next-day-air.

Very useful word.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/13/2016 11:55:17 PM   
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Time to fight dirty


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFHXMQP-QU



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 12:14:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just read this and it cracked me up. If you don’t know anything about William Howard Taft just do a google image search and you’ll understand. This is from Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower”.

Anxious to end the war [Spanish/Filipino/American War] and placate the “new-caught sullen peoples” and govern creditably, the Administration sent various committees to investigate the atrocities [committed by US troops], to find out what the Filipinos really wanted – short of self-government, which they said they wanted – and to report on what form of civil government to give them. In April, 1900, the shy, kindly, three-hundred-pound Judge William Howard Taft was sent out to set up a civil government, armed with a charter drawn up by the new Secretary of War, Elihu Root, which granted the Filipinos a liberal degree of internal autonomy. Since neither they nor the Americans were ready to give up fighting, the attempt was premature, but Taft stayed on, determined to govern in the interest of “the little brown brother” as soon as he was given a chance. When friends at home, concerned for his welfare, sent anxious queries about his health, he cabled Elihu Root that he had been out horseback riding and was feeling fine. “How is the horse feeling?” Root cabled back.



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 12:16:13 AM   
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Time to fight dirty


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFHXMQP-QU



You asked for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPqB9i1ScY

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 12:20:36 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 12:26:01 AM   
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I just read this and it cracked me up. If you don’t know anything about William Howard Taft just do a google image search and you’ll understand. This is from Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower”.

Anxious to end the war [Spanish/Filipino/American War] and placate the “new-caught sullen peoples” and govern creditably, the Administration sent various committees to investigate the atrocities [committed by US troops], to find out what the Filipinos really wanted – short of self-government, which they said they wanted – and to report on what form of civil government to give them. In April, 1900, the shy, kindly, three-hundred-pound Judge William Howard Taft was sent out to set up a civil government, armed with a charter drawn up by the new Secretary of War, Elihu Root, which granted the Filipinos a liberal degree of internal autonomy. Since neither they nor the Americans were ready to give up fighting, the attempt was premature, but Taft stayed on, determined to govern in the interest of “the little brown brother” as soon as he was given a chance. When friends at home, concerned for his welfare, sent anxious queries about his health, he cabled Elihu Root that he had been out horseback riding and was feeling fine. “How is the horse feeling?” Root cabled back.





was he sure it was a horse





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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 12:33:12 AM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5yz3RP0kzU

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 1:49:10 AM   
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Time to fight dirty


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFHXMQP-QU



You asked for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPqB9i1ScY





Yes I did. Thank you making me laugh for five straight minutes.

I wonder how I have missed this sketch. Maybe I was to young to get it, and simply forgotten seeing it.



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 2:34:53 AM   
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I just read this and it cracked me up. If you don’t know anything about William Howard Taft just do a google image search and you’ll understand. This is from Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower”.

Anxious to end the war [Spanish/Filipino/American War] and placate the “new-caught sullen peoples” and govern creditably, the Administration sent various committees to investigate the atrocities [committed by US troops], to find out what the Filipinos really wanted – short of self-government, which they said they wanted – and to report on what form of civil government to give them. In April, 1900, the shy, kindly, three-hundred-pound Judge William Howard Taft was sent out to set up a civil government, armed with a charter drawn up by the new Secretary of War, Elihu Root, which granted the Filipinos a liberal degree of internal autonomy. Since neither they nor the Americans were ready to give up fighting, the attempt was premature, but Taft stayed on, determined to govern in the interest of “the little brown brother” as soon as he was given a chance. When friends at home, concerned for his welfare, sent anxious queries about his health, he cabled Elihu Root that he had been out horseback riding and was feeling fine. “How is the horse feeling?” Root cabled back.





was he sure it was a horse






Thank you very much, I told a friend about that passage and just now told him what you posted and he cracked up.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 2:39:34 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 12:19:27 PM   
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Thank you very much, I told a friend about that passage and just now told him what you posted and he cracked up.



Welcome, after reading Root's comments I thought of that pic. Was there truth in his statement? Was Taft so hard on the horses that the Army fixed him something else to ride.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 2:15:03 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 2:15:34 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 2:50:48 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/14/2016 3:13:08 PM   
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sesquipedalian words mean.


Cute, using a long word meaning, 'given to or characterized by the use of long words', to describe long words. Are we being pedantic?


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No, we are trying to be funny.....

...but clearly not succeeding


Clearly several of you did succeed.


Eschew obfuscation !

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