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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 12:17
"Based". You can not say anymore about someone that he's "Californanian", or "from California". You now must say "California-based". That quite annoys me. 
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:09
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

"Based". You can not say anymore about someone that he's "Californanian", or "from California". You now must say "California-based". That quite annoys me. 
Confused ____-based means where the person is currently living whereas _____ian refers to where they were born - the phrases are not interchangable.
 
You are France-based, but you are not Frenchian.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:13
I know, I should have specified that it's not the expression in itself that annoys me, but the abuse. I see it a lot in contexts where it's not needed, recently.
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Dean, "grope" is not inherently offensive or sexual, and I doubt it was so for that street name. (It may well have been a surname.) One can grope (fumble, or reach around blindly) in the dark for a lightswitch, for example.
 
Many place names in my native Newfoundland now sound funny or sexual, but they were not originally so. Words take on new meanings and useages over the centuries.
 
These days, grope's  association is very often sexual -- much as the hitherto innocent "intercourse" and "ejaculate" came to connote only sexual intercourse and, well, not a sudden conversational interjection.....LOL


Edited by Peter - December 05 2010 at 14:52
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 15:26
Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Dean, "grope" is not inherently offensive or sexual, and I doubt it was so for that street name. (It may well have been a surname.) One can grope (fumble, or reach around blindly) in the dark for a lightswitch, for example.
 
Many place names in my native Newfoundland now sound funny or sexual, but they were not originally so. Words take on new meanings and useages over the centuries.
 
These days, grope's  association is very often sexual -- much as the hitherto innocent "intercourse" and "ejaculate" came to connote only sexual intercourse and, well, not a sudden conversational interjection.....LOL
Peter, you need to follow the link to discover the wonders of Anglo Saxon street naming.Wink
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Dean, "grope" is not inherently offensive or sexual, and I doubt it was so for that street name. (It may well have been a surname.) One can grope (fumble, or reach around blindly) in the dark for a lightswitch, for example.
 
Many place names in my native Newfoundland now sound funny or sexual, but they were not originally so. Words take on new meanings and useages over the centuries.
 
These days, grope's  association is very often sexual -- much as the hitherto innocent "intercourse" and "ejaculate" came to connote only sexual intercourse and, well, not a sudden conversational interjection.....LOL
Peter, you need to follow the link to discover the wonders of Anglo Saxon street naming.Wink
WOW. Very interesting, and I stand humbly corrected. Those medieval Brits made no bones about what they were groping, did they?  I also liked the link to that certain alley. LOL
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 20:47
Thanks to that link for "Grope Lane" I now know I have to visit Shrewsbury sometime. I can never resist the image of a lovely anglo-norman house. 
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I used it the other day and wish I hadn't: "I am an open-book".

Grr!
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

I used it the other day and wish I hadn't: "I am an open-book".Grr!


More a pamphlet, really...



Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

mid-15c., perhaps a variant of frisk (q.v.). As a euphemism for "to f**k"


I've been frisked in public several times... by men in uniforms...

Should I sue?

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:


Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

mid-15c., perhaps a variant of frisk (q.v.). As a euphemism for "to f**k"


I've been frisked in public several times... by men in uniforms...

Should I sue?
Depends. If you think you were over-charged you could have a case... Wink
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"There must be some misunderstanding"......"There must be some kind of Mistake"

"Dude, You Rock"

"I'm gonna kick your fu...ki assss"
 
'Dude checked out"

F-you and the horse you rode in on"

"Did you get saved?"

"Dude, she has an awesome voice"

"Prog? Dude that's fa**** Sh-t"
"Got any Zep?"

"Dude, your wife is hot"

"No, according to the computer, that's out of print"

"Are you sure there's such a band?"

"Would you like to try a value meal?"

"Dude, you're spaced out"

"Okay, getting back on thread",

"Did you get laid?"

"I hate to come down hard on you dude but,"

"Are you on drugs?"


 
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

I used it the other day and wish I hadn't: "I am an open-book".Grr!


More a pamphlet, really...



I LOL'ed, literally LOL
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 06:41
People who say "lol" and "rofl". Stern Smile
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Points: 1840 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 06:44
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 06:49
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

People who say "lol" and "rofl". Stern Smile


I never say LOL, though, I only type it on the internet sometimes. Wink
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

People who say "lol" and "rofl". Stern Smile


I never say LOL, though, I only type it on the internet sometimes. Wink
Oh, I've said it - only to be sarcastic of course... "huh? lol..."
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In football using the term "defensed" instead of defended has always annoyed the hell out of me. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 08:22
^ Never heard that one. I'm presuming you mean American Football though so that would be why.Tongue
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Yes American football. I should specify, but I refuse to. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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