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For Dragan - the keeper of the words
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12/06/2008 19:44:40
 
 
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>>>>>>>>>Or if "discard" means to throw something away, does "card" mean to save it?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>This one just hit me today.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>If 'to card' means to check an ID, then does 'to discard' mean to not check an ID?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>How come you can incapacitate something but not aztecpacitate - or mayapacitate for that matter?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The Azetc and the Mayan cultures were far more secretive than the Inca. Nobody really knows for sure whether or not you can aztecpacitate or mayapacitate anybody.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I didn't procipate a reply from you! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>I wanted to disablunt you.
>>>>
>>>>You don't misusually do
>>>>
>>>>BTW disapblunt surely?
>>>
>>>I know. I don't usufoe make spelling misgives, and I didn't fakeise after I sent it... too late.
>>
>>As we're using antonyms you don't need the negatives
>
>No, the antonyms make the negatives absolutely necessary. If I say "I did fakeise after I sent it", that would me that I didn't realise, so I have to use the negative to counter the antonym. The first sentence, of course, contained 2 negatives which cancelled each other and I was able to construct the sentence as normal.
>
>Gee, I thought you made this game up, and you don't even know the rules? ;)

Sorry. I read that as "I did fakeise till after I sent it". My eyes are a bit blurry.
And the double-negative in the 1st sentence: a master stroke of lack of supertlety.
- 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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