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<blockquote> How about us people that aren't as savvy as you know it alls..... Jeezum I use the Columbus method of typing (seek and discovery) and most of the time I type by the light of my puter screen, if I am lucky enough to spell check you get what you get. Way Too many rules..... I think your being way too Picky for us common folk.... </blockquote> He's joking! Many of his words are invented! There are no words as virii e.g. Or musea! Maybe he's suffering from nausea!!! :-P Or he means indecent instead of indecies!!! :-P "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ![]() |
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I'm sorry, NA, but I have to, because it just didn't look right: Merriam-Webster Online: Index Wikipedia: Index "Indecies" appears to be a common misspelling among programmers. But I'm with ya on moral crusaders part. |
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<blockquote> Where did I complain about spelling, Mr. Bond?</blockquote> Sorry, but some of us actually can spell! So come again, mr. NA! ![]() "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ![]() |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
I came here for a gripe, but this is abuse! From the New Oxford American Dictionary:<blockquote>index |ˌɪnˈdɛks| noun ( pl. -dexes |ˌɪnˈdɛksəz|or esp. in technical use -dices |ˌɪndəˈsiz|)
</blockquote> [snip]<blockquote>ORIGIN: late Middle English : from Latin index, indic- ‘forefinger, informer, sign,’ from in- ‘toward’ + a second element related to dicere ‘say’ or dicare ‘make known’ ; compare with indicate . The original sense [index finger] (with which one points) came to mean [pointer] (late 16th cent.), and figuratively something that serves to point to a fact or conclusion; hence a list of topics in a book (“pointing” to their location).</blockquote>[pre] |
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<blockquote> I came here for a gripe, but this is abuse!</blockquote> You poor thing!! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ![]() |
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I came here for a gripe, but this is abuse! If it makes you feel any better, sometimes I'm the jackass who pulls out suddenly to make a left turn in front of the big truck. Not so much nowadays, but boy when I lived in New England... :) |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
Yes, indeed I am depressed. I believe that there may be a [url=http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thefinalfrontear/rat.htm]Nurse[/url] nearby to offer happy-juice intravenous injections... among other such sundry things... |
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That's just wrong on SO many levels. |
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<blockquote> Yes, indeed I am depressed. I believe that there may be a [url=http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thefinalfrontear/rat.htm]Nurse[/url] nearby to offer happy-juice intravenous injections... among other such sundry things...</blockquote> NÃ¥h, ![]() Just stroll over and get some treatment! You know what's waiting! Oh no, you don't actually! Afraid?? "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ![]() |
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Okay, it's just a little pinprick. There'll be no more "AA-aa-aaah", but you may feel a little sick... |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
My sobriety [i]was[/i] dubious at the membership application ceremony... ...then again, I expect the same applied to the members... But I digress. Let the gripes continue. |
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<blockquote> Yes, indeed I am depressed. I believe that there may be a [url=http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thefinalfrontear/rat.htm]Nurse[/url] nearby to offer happy-juice intravenous injections... among other such sundry things...</blockquote> "AA-aa-aaah" ![]() |
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<blockquote><blockquote> How about us people that aren't as savvy as you know it alls..... Jeezum I use the Columbus method of typing (seek and discovery) and most of the time I type by the light of my puter screen, if I am lucky enough to spell check you get what you get. Way Too many rules..... I think your being way too Picky for us common folk.... </blockquote> He's joking! Many of his words are invented! There are no words as virii e.g. Or musea! Maybe he's suffering from nausea!!! :-P Or he means indecent instead of indecies!!! :-P </blockquote> Smortimes Humor Zoooms rite over my head! Sorrie mr.AN... ![]() |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
Radius : Radii :: Virus : Virii That's the last I'll mention it. |
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<blockquote> Radius : Radii :: Virus : Virii That's the last I'll mention it.</blockquote> Whatever you say, honey!!! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ![]() |
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<blockquote> Radius : Radii :: Virus : Virii That's the last I'll mention it.</blockquote> I think YOU'RE looking at <B>YOUR[/b] Dictionary too much.. Have some vodka!! |
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<blockquote> [b]My sobriety [i]was[/i] dubious at the membership application ceremony...[/b] ...then again, I expect the [b]same applied to the members...[/b] But I digress. Let the gripes continue.</blockquote> Speak for yourself! We never touch the stuff! ![]() "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ![]() |
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My gripe is that I don't have a gripe...Oh. Dammit. Kolch - Crunching for the BOINC@Australia team since July 2004. Search for your own intelligence... |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
<blockquote>We never touch the stuff! ![]() Speak for yourself! .o0(echo... echo... echo...) |
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