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| (...) Yeah, but they're talking about slow processes monitored over years! How can soft, fuzzy things deserve this metaphor? Try these on: "Increased sunlight seems to impact plant growth" "The volcanic eruption will impact wildlife populations" (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) What makes you think the meteorite imagery wasn't intended? In fact, it's exactly the reason the word is chosen: it implies a quick, overwhelming, and hard-to-unavoid effect. If your complaint is about excessive hyperbole, okay, you have a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer
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| (...) I guess I just read from the Spanish sentence to the kimosabe one, and lumped the two together in my mind. Didn't see a tonto reference in your post, but then again, didn't read the post before yours... Everything indicated to me you were (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My predigested self : ) Kimosabe I think is Indian for friend, and I said that I'm taking Spanish so I would've known what tonto means. It's ok you didn't understand though. Only the young know how to read "predigested pap" : ))))) Hasta la (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) LOL gotta love, or hate, that pop culture. My University of Chicago Spanish-Engilsh dictionary has 9 entries for words that start with "k," and none of them are "kimosabe." The word vaguely looks like it could be a Spanish word, but something (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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