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| (...) As far as I'm aware, the first on-screen use of that "verb" was in Star Wars, when someone observed that proton torpedos "didn't go in, just impacted on the surface." (...) "Proactive" is a particular bugaboo re: workplace pretensions, but it (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) You don't live in Washington do you? There's a big difference between rain and rainshower activity here. Not to mention drizzle, mist, showers, thundershowers, downpours... Jason (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Well, that's the whole point, isn't it? It's like the apocryphal saying that Inuits have 47 (or so) words for snow. In fact, they don't; they have a word for fluffy snow, a word for wet snow, a word for dry snow, a word for drifted snow, a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I guess I just inherently know what is meant by each of those words including rain and rainshower activity when used by a Western Washington forcaster after having lived here my whole life. Rain means that the area in question is going to have (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I live in Northern California and those words mean exactly the same thing they mean to you. BTW I spent most of my teenage years in Western Washington and never owned an umbrella until I went off to college-- in Baltimore! Maggie C. (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Dave Schuler wrote in message ... (...) flaunted (...) These people are trying to say "flout", but can't tell the difference. Maybe it's the American accent that causes the problem <g,d&r> Kevin ---...--- NEW Cottage kit, 577 pieces! (URL) TOWN (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) My university would always say a major was "currently impacted" instead of "full." Geez. (...) There seems this mass delusion that the word "flaunt" is the word "flout". Why would he wave your warning about in a brazen fashion? I don't get it. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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