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19/05/2005 13:11:27
 
 
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19/05/2005 12:57:46
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Codage, syntaxe et commandes
Versions des environnements
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Divers
Thread ID:
01014629
Message ID:
01015899
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32
>>Well ... yes and no. "uninterested" means "not interested" as in "... in your topic", whereas "disinterested" means "impartial", as in "... as to which team wins".
>>
>>The point I was making is that there are many English word pairs like this that are used erroneously.
>
>And then there are pairs which aren't pairs, just look so. Just try to weed these out. I took mostly verbs, and a few others that I couldn't resist. Not quite sure about some of them - does the second word mean repetition of the first in some way or not.
>
bar - rebar (what's rebar?)
bus - rebus (what's rebus?)
enforce - reenforce (I think you mean re-inforce
face - reface (what's reface?)
sister - resister (as in electrical - it's resistor)
tort - retort (what's a tort)

Nice selection of words. Many you need to blame the French for again. They use "re" in many words and don't mean "again". e.g. "retour" means "turn".
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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