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Anonymous,
4 yr 18 days ago
Hi, freak guy,
of course, there are very strict rules, but these rules are rooted in ancient LAtin, if You do not know Latin, then You can claim there are no rules. But if You are not educated enought, You should not state such a nonsense. There are rules as to what consonants or vowels must precede to add this or that prefix. Have you ever heard of a progressive assimilation, for example? You do not seem to have, otherwise You would not ferer the poor guy to long lists of words to memorise by heart or to practical usage ONLY.
Have a nice sleep in Your den
Yours Zdenek
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Clive
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Thu, 03 Nov 05 10:58 PM
Hi Zdenek,
This last post seems to me to be a very feeble attempt to be ill-mannered and annoying. Can't you do any better than that?
Clive
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El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo
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Klavier
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Sat, 12 Nov 05 04:17 PM
 Anonymous wrote: | Hi, freak guy,
otherwise You would not ferer the poor guy to long lists of words to memorise by heart or to practical usage ONLY.
Have a nice sleep in Your den
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So, should I learn ancient roots, rules, and which consonant and vowels
go here and there ? Should I burn my brain with this stuff when it
comes to the prefix retro- for example, or is it more
'PRACTICAL' to learn all the words in the dictionary in this pattern?
Please allow me: retroactive - retrograde - retrospect - retrospective.
Oh! I think I have already learnt them.
Have a nice sleep in Your monastery.
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"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Isaac Newton
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Anonymous,
3 yr 278 days ago
Please tell me which is more correct as the opposite act of registering something.
Is it unregister or deregister? I've looked in the online dictionaries and can't find either word.
Thanks!
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Clive
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Fri, 17 Feb 06 10:10 PM
Hi,
deregister The office registered you in the wrong course, so they deregistered you. ie they removed you from the register.
unregister You come to the class but your name is not on the register. Your name has never been on the register.You are an unregistered student.
Best wishes, Clive
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Goodman
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Fri, 17 Feb 06 11:06 PM
| Clive wrote: | |
Hi Zdenek,
This last post seems to me to be a very feeble attempt to be ill-mannered and annoying. Can't you do any better than that?
Clive
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Come with every deck of card, there always will be two “jokers”.
Lurking around every forum, there will always be a couple of “loose nuts”-Quoted goodman
That’s not my rule but a reality. Clive, It’s not even worth it. It’s pretty evident who is “educated” or otherwise!
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Anonymous,
3 yr 219 days ago
I see this message is very old - but I was looking for help and this address came up - so I'm hoping you can help me. I clicked on this link and found out that I was right, UNTHAW is not a word. If something is UN-thawed, it is obviously NOT thawed, thawed being a state of not frozen - if something is NOT thawed, then it has to still be frozen. HOWEVER, there is a woman at a professional site on the web who is a cook and publishes recipes, believe it or not, who uses this word, UNTHAW, in a lot of her recipes. Check out -
http://busycooks.about.com/od/quickbreads/r/blueberrymuffin.html and http://busycooks.about.com/od/turkeyrecipes/r/crockpotturkey.html
I emailed her and told her about this word and she emailed me back a link to a dictionary site. Apparently, this stupid dictionary site thinks UNTHAW is a word. What do I tell her? It's not even a matter of me being right. It's that she's using this word and misleading a lot of people - and looking rather ridiculous, as well. Thanks for your assistance. Joanne
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Clive
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Sun, 16 Apr 06 09:16 PM
Hi Joanne,
I'd just drop it. People don't always appreciate having their errors pointed out.
Best wishes, Clive
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