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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #45 on: December 05, 2007, 09:31:19 PM »
Umm I am no grammar expert and poetry is in the ear of the beholder and at the whim of the writer, but...

MrMxy, did you forget a tittle after your second crime? I was thinking a comma more than a period?

Nope.

Read across broken lines that lack any ending puncuation in a quick flurry and the banter will be even more obvious than the foreground meter....

(Kinda Suess-ish, or like you might hear in a coffee house in the '50s....)

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #46 on: December 06, 2007, 03:15:42 AM »
Wow, those were nice.  I wish I had at least a tittle of artistic talent like you guys.

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #47 on: December 06, 2007, 03:35:17 PM »
Umm I am no grammar expert and poetry is in the ear of the beholder and at the whim of the writer, but...

MrMxy, did you forget a tittle after your second crime? I was thinking a comma more than a period?

Nope.

Read across broken lines that lack any ending puncuation in a quick flurry and the banter will be even more obvious than the foreground meter....

(Kinda Suess-ish, or like you might hear in a coffee house in the '50s....)



Lol actually, that was just the best attempt you were going to get from me to use the worrd...not really a question.

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #48 on: December 07, 2007, 12:29:41 PM »
:D Wow! This board makes for one amusing distraction when your SOPOSED to be doing algebra :P

(Bravo Jane, Mxy!)

I'm gonna go play a tittle of Halo before I get back to the grind stone...
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #49 on: December 12, 2007, 04:53:36 PM »
Quote
. <- It's a tittle!!!

I win!

That one is called a "full stop", VxT :).

I thought the tittle was the little dot above the "i" and/or "j", not "any small dot used in writing".


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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #50 on: December 13, 2007, 02:17:32 AM »
I've been perusing this post and have come to the conclusion that it's all tittle tattle!! :zoid:

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #51 on: December 14, 2007, 08:31:12 PM »
I've been perusing this post and have come to the conclusion that it's all tittle tattle!! :zoid:

...And a tittle tale, as well!

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #52 on: December 15, 2007, 01:07:39 PM »
Ooh, I had to try.

Tittle tattle a tittle, but don't you dare belittle.
Just 'cause I'm in the middle doesn't mean I play the fiddle...
Okay, perhaps a tittle...
Now my tale doesn't whittle back there,
'Cause I've gotta split some hairs.
I consumed some tuck with a side of ixtle.
Put some sauce in the betwixt, and eat it mixed.

Lawl, complete essence of random, but I thought it was fun ;D.

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #53 on: January 02, 2008, 02:22:11 PM »


Alright!  We had some good fun with that last one.  Sorry to put and end to that!  ::)  :winkgrin:



e·bul·lient      [i-buhl-yuhnt, i-bool-]

–adjective

1.   overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
2.   bubbling up like a boiling liquid.


[Origin: 1590–1600; < L ébullient- (s. of ébulliéns boiling up, prp. of ébullīre), equiv. to é- e- + bulli- (deriv. of bulla a bubble) + -ent- -ent]


On New Year's night the sparkling cider was frothing ebulliently when poured into my tall-stemmed glass! Happy New Year! ... CHEERS!
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #54 on: January 02, 2008, 05:42:03 PM »
I was ebullient due to the recent New Year :yesyes:, causing my dog to have an ebullient slobber flow from her mouth :drool:!   
I thought i might give it a try! 

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #55 on: January 20, 2008, 08:53:02 AM »
My ebullience can hardly be measured when I see that there is a new Word Corner word! Not just because I like to use the new word--our good MrMxyzptlk must have the worst calender ever. It always cheers me to find that he's remembered time! Those fifth-dimensional beings... ::)

Twice in the first post, TWO WEEKS is used in all caps. TWO WEEKS! If anyone's seen the move Total Recall, I like saying "two weeks" like the woman in the customs area.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #56 on: January 21, 2008, 10:32:57 AM »
I feel all ebullient and enervated! ... No, wait, I just feel ebullient!
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #57 on: January 22, 2008, 12:21:49 AM »



Wow time flies, eh JANE??

'Time for a new word then!

Background: I encountered this word at a young age (while in the Boy Scouts, actually!) and have always loved it as a great piece of trivia, english-language-wise....

ENJOY!



ag·let [ag-lit]

–noun

1.   a metal tag or sheath at the end of a lace used for tying, as of a shoelace.
2.   (in the 16th and 17th centuries) an ornament at the end of a point or other ribbon used to secure a garment.

Also, aiglet.


[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < MF aiguillette, equiv. to aiguille needle (see aiguille) + -ette -et]


While out running this morning (ya, right!  ;) ) I ran through some brush and split open the aglet on one of my shoelaces that had come loose, and then I couldn't get it back through the eyelet again!
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #58 on: January 22, 2008, 03:40:01 AM »
Seen THIS word before. AIGLETS is a high probability scrabble bonus word ::)


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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #59 on: January 22, 2008, 03:22:46 PM »
I hate it when my aglet cracks, and my shoelace frays, was always the end of my school shoes...... R.I.P
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