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profile: chained_bear

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:21:29 +0000

That's extremely impressive! Congratulations c_b! Your comments demonstrate how well you write.

word: flesch-kincaid grade level

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:17:48 +0000

1. I don't study enough sloppy text to calculate percentages. I know that when I worked as a journalist I was positively encouraged to use passive...

word: pregnant pause

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:04:09 +0000

Oh, ha, ha, ha!! Score one for skipvia!! You win. :)

word: mattock

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:03:38 +0000

Ah. I gotcha. Thanks.

word: g-hits

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:03:28 +0000

"Google hits" seems more appropriate, as it makes immediately clear what we're talking about.

profile: chained_bear

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:02:58 +0000

For screenwriting, palooka. :) No starlets here, but thanks for thinking of me that way.

word list: You-Know-What

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:57:38 +0000

Well, I don't know about Dontcry, but I loved your explanations, especially the examples provided (your illustration rocks, Bilby!). And slovenly...

word: pregnant pause

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:49:18 +0000

A dependent clause?

word: ribbby

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:44:57 +0000

Fuck! Thanks.

word list: You-Know-What

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:44:27 +0000

Completely agree, sionnach. The contradiction is between possessing a (whole) cake, and at the same time enjoying eating it.

word list: You-Know-What

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:42:52 +0000

I'm a cake haver. At parties and things people give me cake, even when I tell them I don't eat cake. So the cake just sits there, and I pretend to...

word: mattock

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:41:46 +0000

I suppose I was thinking of a broader sense of peasant, connoting a subservient or lowest socio-economic grouping.

word: g-hits

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:40:17 +0000

I would say "gee-hits", or even just "google hits".

profile: chained_bear

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:24:34 +0000

Chained_Bear, maybe I missed it but what did you win an Emmy for? Do we have a famous starlet among us?

word list: You-Know-What

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:19:46 +0000

<i> "You can't have your cake and eat it, too" (It's "You can't EAT your cake and have it, too" and if you just thought...

word: flesch-kincaid grade level

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:09:22 +0000

That's kind of key, isn't it? "When used properly" isn't very often. Ninety percent of the time it's a sign of a lazy writer.

word list: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:05:03 +0000

trapdoor, alien abduction, hang-glider, avalanche.

word list: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:58:32 +0000

jitney, space shuttle, hearse, join the Marines? Great list!

word list: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:57:33 +0000

fixie?

word: pregnant pause

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:56:58 +0000

A pregnant pause gives birth to, usually, an uncomfortable situation. Just like a pregnant woman!