>>>>>>Just a thought - Just imagine if we still a 8" floppies and you had to order VS 2012 on them.
>>>>>>It would cause a bit of a stir when a semi pulls up to make the delivery.
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>>>>>Pardon the uninitiated, semi-what? Semicircle, semicolon, semiprecious stone, semiquaver, semitone, semiconductor...?
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>>>>Semi-articulated (but I know you were kidding)
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>>>I have seriously omitted all that weren't nouns from the list, no kidding.
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>>>I just can't get over something so big being called half. And nobody really knowing what's the whole that it's half of.
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>>It's interesting that "semi", "hemi" and "demi" all mean pretty much the same thing.
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>My favorite is flammable and inflammable meaning the same thing.

Not to mention that classic Americanism "I could care less".