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| Shadowflight | Feb 24 2012, 08:52 PM Post #31 |
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The Black Flame
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Don't forget all the weird vocabulary |
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| towr | Feb 24 2012, 09:32 PM Post #32 |
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Defender of the pie
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The only weird vocabulary I can discern is "backronym", but they provide a helpful link to explain it (not that it's necessary). Everything else seems rather run-of-the-mill English. |
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| TheDeepDark | Feb 25 2012, 04:10 PM Post #33 |
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Where light goes to die
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Since you know, nearly all English speakers still run mills these days ^__^ (not to be remotely jerk-like or whatever, I just couldn't help noticing in context) |
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| towr | Feb 25 2012, 08:26 PM Post #34 |
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Defender of the pie
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Well, I know you've outsourced a lot of production in America, but surely you've still got plenty off mills of all kinds for manufacturing. You'd be surprised what requires milling, it's not just grinding grains, you know. |
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| TheDeepDark | Feb 28 2012, 06:57 AM Post #35 |
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Where light goes to die
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This is true. our coinage still has milled edges. |
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| Me | Feb 29 2012, 07:37 AM Post #36 |
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Aspiring World Ruler and Eccentric Cynic
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Well, it could still make sense if you use its verb meaning "to mill around" as in "loitering" - goodness knows there's plenty of THAT. |
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| TheDeepDark | Mar 1 2012, 03:15 AM Post #37 |
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Where light goes to die
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Hmm. I do suppose it still works that way. <sigh> |
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| Snofox Kari | Mar 2 2012, 09:26 PM Post #38 |
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Protector of the Winter Forest
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guess there are plenty of old sayings we still use regardless of whether they're still actually applicable
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| TheDeepDark | Mar 2 2012, 09:36 PM Post #39 |
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I still remember the first time I started reading this thing that went into the history of some sayings The whole nine yards is the only one I distinctly remember, cuz it ended up concluding that the origin was one of three or four distinctly different possibilities |
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| Elystriana | Mar 3 2012, 06:17 PM Post #40 |
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Guardian and Healer of the Silyena Woods
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That would be an interesting reading- I have wondered where we got some of our slightly odd sayings. |
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| towr | Mar 3 2012, 06:31 PM Post #41 |
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Defender of the pie
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Such as? Maybe I could find out where they come from, or if I can't, I could always make something up
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| Snofox Kari | Mar 4 2012, 07:24 PM Post #42 |
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it's fun to make something up and then see how accurate you are a lot of times it may be just as it seems, but there are some that are pretty hard to determine except in the context we currently use itfun stuffs |
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| Me | Mar 5 2012, 07:30 PM Post #43 |
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How about "That's the long and short of it"? Or when you say someone's got a chip on their shoulder? Or being the apple of someone's eye? Or beating around the bush? Or when you "can't cut the mustard"? Or "a dead ringer"? Or why we ask to excuse our French when we swear? Or flipping the bird (it doesn't look a bit like a bird, seriously)? Or a flash in the pan? Or getting up on the wrong side of the bed? Or "Kitty (or catty) corner"? Or kick the bucket? (Though that one I think might have something to do with hanging.) Or "no bones about it"? ...Yeah, I'll stop before I think of more I wondered about. |
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| towr | Mar 5 2012, 09:34 PM Post #44 |
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Defender of the pie
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Do you want the long version or the short version? ![]() I expect that would be about all of it. "And I dare you to knock it off!"
apple=aperture, i.e. it's (figuratively) in the middle It's the preliminary to a hunt, to drive the game from cover. Once you're done beaten about the bush you start the real hunt. Well, let's just say you can find a lot of them explained on http://www.phrases.org.uk , so I'll skip a few.
bad joke Probably to do with a grease fire. Which can quickly end in your house burning down. |
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| Elystriana | Mar 6 2012, 02:16 AM Post #45 |
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Guardian and Healer of the Silyena Woods
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Mmm...that site doesn't have "cut it out!"- one I've wondered about for a good while. |
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