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Grit? You Want Grit? You Got Grit!

 
 
Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:40 pm
Momma Angel wrote:
farmerman,

I will make a deal with you ~ you stop posting words I have to look up all the time and I won't use my smileys. We got a deal or what? :wink:


I have a better idea. Answers.com has this neat little program. It downloads a tiny tab, which you can put on the bottom of your screen. When you want to look up a word, you hit the tab, type the word in, and up it comes. And it is so much more than a dictionary.

Anyone who has used GuruNet or Atomica will be familiar with this. The new program is the successor to the other two, and offers much more information for free.

http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp

I use this program constantly when I am writing on A2K, either to check out a word that I don't understand, or to find a better way to say something.I find it a great way of increasing my vocabulary.
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:40 pm
Cyphercat,

That is just a rumor started by some nasty dog I would imagine.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:41 pm
Who is this Momma Angel person? She must have gone somewhere if she's "back", but, to tell you the truth, I never knew she existed.

Someone give me the details.
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:43 pm
Phoenix,

Thank you so much! It's downloaded. But, one question. That solves some of my problem about looking up farmerman's words, but what is his part of the compromise?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:43 pm
MA...you ARE asking for "special treatment" if you are asking people to "just ignore" posts of yours they find wrong or irrational.

This is a knowledge information exchange site and also a discussion and debate site.

You cannot, in reason, ask for people not to say anything if they find your argument weak or nonsensical.


Asking this, which you appear to be doing in your first post, IS asking for special treatment.....and would actually, though I know you find this hard to see, be an act of total disrespect for you and, actually, for the purpose of the site....
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:44 pm
Gus,

Momma Angel is a figment of your imagination I would imagine. :wink:
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:46 pm
Who said that?
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:47 pm
dlowan Wrote:

Quote:
MA...you ARE asking for "special treatment" if you are asking people to "just ignore" posts of yours they find wrong or irrational.

This is a knowledge information exchange site and also a discussion and debate site.

You cannot, in reason, ask for people not to say anything if they find your argument weak or nonsensical.


Asking this, which you appear to be doing in your first post, IS asking for special treatment.....and would actually, though I know you find this hard to see, be an act of total disrespect for you and, actually, for the purpose of the site....


Good grief! I am not back ten minutes and the rabbit attacks! Been meaning to ask, have you had your rabies shot yet?

Just kidding, dlowan. I see what you are saying and I can see you are right. So, will this work instead?

No special treatment is being requested for any reason. I reserve the right to give back just as I get and so do you?
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:49 pm
Gus,

If you are hearing voices, it might be God. Shocked
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:50 pm
MA...again, I really do hate to say this, but Farmerman simply speaks as he wishes.


He does not HAVE to compromise.....the reasonable response to finding words one does not understand is to look 'em up and find out.


Farmerman is not doing ANYTHING to you by having a larger and more specialised vocabulary....



This is a chance for us to learn.

I am always looking up words I see here and everywhere else....it is GOOD to be so challenged.

In a while you will have a great new vocabulary, too.


It's a win/win.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:51 pm
MA

I thought I saw another thread in which you said you were leaving A2K. Confused So you're staying, afterall, then? Confused I must say removing the bold type from your posts is a hell of an improvement! Bold posts are the pits.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:52 pm
Did you use the emoticons you wanted to use, msolga?

Just wondering.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:52 pm
AND, you get to find all kinds of great sites when you pursue stuff you do not understand.....it is a fabulous way to become far more educated and knowledgable...
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:53 pm
Shocked Shocked So rabbits DON'T have a sense of humor? dlowan, I was making a joke. Ya know, kind of like well, I don't like your big words and you don't like my smileys, big girl panties time. :wink:

I gotta tell ya, my jokes lose something in the translation or something. Laughing
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:55 pm
Hi msolga,

Yeah. I did some growing up in the last 24 hours. Laughing
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:56 pm
msolga wrote:
Bold posts are the pits.



BWAAA.........You hurt my feelings. I always thought that my typing was so.................................distinctive! :wink:
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:57 pm
Oh, fair enough.



Sorry, it just seemed kind of consistent with stuff you seemed to have meant seriously before....


As you were.....lol!
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 09:58 pm
gustavratzenhofer wrote:
Did you use the emoticons you wanted to use, msolga?

Just wondering.


I see I just used the same one twice. And yeah, perhaps a few more, as well, wouldn't have hurt, now that you mention it.
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 10:00 pm
dlowan,

I appreciate you telling me that it came across that way. I don't have a problem with you doing it.

I love rabbits, BTW.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 25 Jan, 2006 10:00 pm
Phoenix32890 wrote:
msolga wrote:
Bold posts are the pits.



BWAAA.........You hurt my feelings. I always thought that my typing was so.................................distinctive! :wink:


What can I say, Phoenix? OK, how's this?: LONG bold posts are the pits! Howz that! Very Happy
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