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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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| (...) 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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| (...) Perhaps it originates from irc chats where typing "/me like!" would display "<name> like!"? That would be my guess. Either that or they just don't want to grow up, and use so-called "baby-talk." ;) Jeff "Jeff slaps Dave! around a bit with a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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'm going to have to stick up for Methodology. A good methodology is way more than just method. (23 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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