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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
> While we're at it, I've
> noticed that meteorologists love to refer to "rainshower activity," which
> uses seven syllables when one ("rain") would be just fine.
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
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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