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Matt Rutherford
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by Matt Rutherford » Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:00 pm
Inspired by this from the 'You Know You're Playing Too Much Apterous When...' (if there has been a similar thread already apologies-I couldn't find one)
You know you're playing too much if you get excited when you see an obscure word "in the wild".
What examples have you had of this? It was the only reason I knew what ADAGIO was whilst assisting in a Music class at work and whilst doing stuff on J.R Miller (a theologian) for church, discussion of UNREALITY and an UNREALIST came up-nearly jotted down RETINULAS by mistake
Anymore for anymore?
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*(Not ordained, nor do I live Dudley. Godspeed!)
Johnny Canuck
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by Johnny Canuck » Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:20 am
I think we've already got a catalogue of these going
here but good spots!
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Johnny Canuck on Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:28 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Matt Rutherford
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by Matt Rutherford » Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:22 am
Link's broken
(Cannae get the staff
)
The Vicar of Dudley*
*(Not ordained, nor do I live Dudley. Godspeed!)
Johnny Canuck
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by Johnny Canuck » Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:28 am
everything has meaning - existence has meaning - being alive has meaning - have dreams - use power
Gavin Chipper
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by Gavin Chipper » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:17 am
Don't forget that URLs without the www don't work properly on this forum (you keep getting logged out), so
this link is even better!
Dan Byrom
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by Dan Byrom » Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:43 am
I've started studying Biology this year.
So many sequences of letters have become real-life words!
E.g. ____ZOANS, LIGATES, DENATURED, and many more
Callum Todd
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by Callum Todd » Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:14 am
Dan Byrom wrote: ↑ Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:43 am
I've started studying Biology this year.
So many sequences of letters have become real-life words!
E.g. ____ZOANS, LIGATES, DENATURED, and many more
Bear
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Dan Byrom
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by Dan Byrom » Tue Nov 24, 2020 4:32 pm
Just watching a lecture.
Lecturer says 'if you want to collect words for things like scrabble, then metabotype = ____'
Unfortunately it's invalid in both Countdown and Scrabble
Callum Todd
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by Callum Todd » Tue Nov 24, 2020 7:32 pm
That was your cue to take over the lecture and teach the lecturer a thing or two.
Mark Deeks wrote: Callum Todd looks like a young Ted Bundy.
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by Callum Todd » Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:11 am
Nice!
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