and just like that, the computer works again.
hell if i know what's going on. but, i'm happy it's up and running.
and to celebrate, let's check out a compendium of lost words. i could go through these words for ages. i'm facinated by rare and "lost" words. some are so mellifluous and beautiful it's a wonder how they ever disappeared. others are nearly impossible to say it's surprising they were ever used.
hope you enjoy it as much as i.
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agonarch?
Had not heard that word or most of the other words in this Lost Word link.
I can imagine all the words that were lost due to genocide when explorers "discovered" the Americas. (i.e. indigenous words.)
"blogging," now that's a word that didn't exist long ago.
We should look up these words and bring them back to life in a poem. As word "doctors" we can bring these words back, or maybe not.
Commander Pete "JesusFish" McFinky, NSA here:
Mr. Dot Barrett, sorry about the computer thing. we cannot confirm nor deny this, but we may have been installing an IP Detection System on the line and may have almost erased everything you've ever had on computer ever.
but we didn't and Frimp and his team have been reprimanded. maybe. enjoy your "blogging," whatever the heck that is.
I might be the black ops section chief here at the Hollywood Liberal/Morman Polygamist/Hippie Poet division of the NSA, and any further difficulties you have, please keep them to yourself.
Jesus Saves.
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Interesting list, j!
It's interesting the way words form, fall out of use, and mutate. One prediction I'll make is that "you're" will eventually fall out of use and be replaced by "your". The wrong usage is just too endemic across society. We're fighting a losing battle with that one.
glenn-
i'm afraid you're right, buddy. sadly.
but, i hope we are wrong. there's nothing that irks me more than blatantly bad grammar or spelling errors.
and something as simple as a contraction? jesus.
I refuse to submit. I will strike down anyone who uses "your" as "you're." I will wreak a terrible vengeance upon anyone using "their" for "they're." beware all you grammatically ignorant bastards, the time of reckoning is at hand.
i'm CC's sidekick on this vigilante tirade!
don't make me post another grammar/spelling lesson for your asses.
good point, Casey.
there IS sometimes a necessity to use bad grammar/spelling. for colloquial intent, or for other such dialectical purposes, bad grammar/spelling is right.
all the best writers use it. but, when one isn't aware (or worse, IS aware) of the differences, or doesn't care to know the differences, then we've a problem.
and, like you alluded to, with the proliferation of text messages and instant messages and other online, cellphone, email, forum communications the problem is only going to get worse.
i hope your dire prediction isn't true, but it certainly could be.
or:
1 hop3 ur d1r3 pr3d1ct10n a1nt tru3, but 1t sur3 cood b.
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