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they DOOOOOO pop up, language, some will tell you, is a virus
today's words:

pedantics
qua
cosine
arbitrary
neighbourhood
Manhattan

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 February 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

pejorative

― Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That was ILE wasn't it. D'oh!

― Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I had never ever heard the term 'parse' before, and I've seen it about three different times on ILM this week.

― Ferg (Ferg), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

tomorrow's:

doozy
whiz-bang
parcheesi
so so fine
abacuz (as in: "Abacuz I sed so, that's why!")
terminal beats
juxtaposital
freelance fig newton

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Cosine? Nobody's used that. You're making it up!

Special prize* for the first person to use trigonometry in an apposite way in their musical analysis.

(* not really)

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

So I was hanging out in my neighbourhood, in Manhattan, when I decided I should do some study. I'm okay at math, heck I know the cosine of an angle is the ratio of the lengths of the side adjacent to it and the hypotenuse as well as anyone.

So in an arbitrary manner I picked up my pedantics text and got to work.

No sooner had I buried my head in a book than a horrible 12 bar blues rumbled in from the club next door, ACK! it was a horrible tribute band doing a cover of 'We're in the Army Now', the poster outside said they were calle Status Qua.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I still say we need "psuedoesque"; Its such a damn versatile word: It means "reminds the observer of a simulation of something" the 'something' meaning anything you can possibly imagine.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

pseudoesque = simulacral?

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Its not exactly the same as simulcral.
Simulcral == "reminscent of a simulation"
Pseudoesque == "reminscent of a simulation of something that reminds you of something simulated"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

'markettes' or is that an in-joke not a buzz-word?

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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