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WCDT: 11-15 October 2010 (1771-1775)
badbum61:
--- Quote from: zadojla on 15 Oct 2010, 13:15 ---My favorite is the opposite of "postpone" - "prepone" meaning to perform a task ahead of schedule.
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My wife (who is a remedial English teacher, BTW) seems to think that the correct terminology is not exclude or preclude, but disclude....and she wonders why I get upset with her when she says it! Honestly, the younger generation....
edit: yes, point taken, akronnick. "opposite" was not actually what I meant....
akronnick:
umm... exclude?
Carl-E:
Gesundheidt.
snubnose:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 17 Oct 2010, 18:12 ---[...] A farmer is certainly not more important than a judge, doctor, teacher or engineer. But he's not less important, either. We need them all.
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Hehe.
Actually I'm fairly certain you will miss farmers more than judges if they would suddenly be gone.
After all, Criminals on the rampage are fairly unimportant if you're starving to death for sure.
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 17 Oct 2010, 22:42 ---Gesundheidt.
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Almost.
Its "Gesundheit".
Unless they changed the word while it traveled to the english language, anyway.
Carl-E:
Thanks. My tiny amount of German's over 20 years old, and extraordinarily rusty.
...and I didn't bother asking my spellchacker - I just assumed it didn't recognize the word...
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