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Weirdest problem of all
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19/05/2005 13:24:38
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01014629
Message ID:
01015914
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22
>>>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?)

I think it's something American... some sort of iron bar. Don't know exactly what.

>bus - rebus (what's rebus?)

"A puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words"

>enforce - reenforce (I think you mean re-inforce

Sounds so, but I found "reenforce" in the dictionary as well.

>face - reface (what's reface?)

"Put a new facing on, as of a garment"

>sister - resister (as in electrical - it's resistor)

"A disputant who advocates reform"

>tort - retort (what's a tort)

"Any wrongdoing for which and action for damages may be brought"... probably another American legal term.

>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".

back to same old

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