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mrcozdude
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Topic: Looking for a word Posted: April 02 2008 at 04:12 |
Hope im not being cheeky in taking full advantage of ask anything on any subject lol but..
I'm trying to think of one word which means something that you posess then its given away then it returns to its point of origin (you) much like an object or a boomerang,im sure theres aword for it,but i cant quite think of it
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Vompatti
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Posted: April 02 2008 at 04:18 |
Is it a noun?
I suggest "reverberative." Edited by Vompatti - April 02 2008 at 04:20 |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: April 02 2008 at 07:41 |
re-gifted?
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 02 2008 at 11:41 |
... wife?
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Vompatti
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Posted: April 02 2008 at 12:43 |
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Shakespeare
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Posted: April 05 2008 at 13:23 |
boomerang-like
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rileydog22
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 00:26 |
Indian-giver's gift.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 00:59 |
Ah, the old The Bottled Imp idea, as nicely told by Robert Louis Stevenson in the short story of the same name. An interesting concept indeed.
I don't think it has a name though, that concept, unless someone knows better. |
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 01:47 |
ha ha that was my first thought. http://www.geocities.com/vandelay_industries007/reguifter.mp3 |
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Atkingani
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 16:25 |
echo?
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Guigo
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Shakespeare
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Posted: April 18 2008 at 13:08 |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
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BaldFriede
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Posted: April 18 2008 at 14:42 |
I don't think there is a word, but I would make up the word "polycratic" after the poem "Der Ring des Polykrates" by Friedrich Schiller. It tells the story of Polycrates of Samos who is so lucky that a guest tells him he should throw away his most valued possession so the Gods would not be angry with him. He takes a ring off his finger and throws it into the sea. The day after the cook brings him a fish, in the stomach of which he found the ring.
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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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Stool Man
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Posted: April 18 2008 at 14:49 |
Back-of-the-knee
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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Peter
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Posted: April 18 2008 at 17:33 |
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Respect?
Love?
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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tuxon
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Posted: April 18 2008 at 23:14 |
Just had a discussion about respect, but I really think either we should discard respect or hold it in high esteem, but currently everyone is demanding respect without showing respect for others (and that's outside my frame of thought, so I'm kinda dislocated about it). So the word can't be respect.
Love is a silly concept we all adore, so I would love that word to be the one.
Give, take and love.
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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mrcozdude
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 25 2007 Location: Devon,UK. Status: Offline Points: 2078 |
Posted: April 29 2008 at 16:40 |
thats good, quite deep. The reason i needed the word was for a lyric to push the story forward. |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 29 2008 at 16:51 |
I can't wait to see what you rhyme with polycratic!
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tuxon
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Posted: April 29 2008 at 22:18 |
idiosyncratic.
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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