New Oxford Dictionary - Page 2

Clodfobble · 12-06-2007, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Am I to understand somebody, somewhere, believed "knapsack" to be an obsolete term? That would seem a symptom of not being widely read, or something.

Knowing a term and its being obsolete in common usage are different things. Are you really prepared to declare yourself common, UG?

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

We still have unstructured sackish things.

Yep. We call them "bags."

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-11-2007, 05:53 AM

Not so much inarguable as arguable, for you're willing, under the impression that you know it all (curable only by experience over time) to try arguing it. But I don't see validity in your basic premise. I reach deep when I speak, and that includes deeply into time, and I am not going to tailor my speech to suit persons who strike me as too shallow. They shall come to my level, not I to theirs. Thus they become better (for more knowledgeable usually is) men, and I am not called upon to practice what I can only see as personal deterioration.

classicman · 12-11-2007, 07:25 AM

Or your message, whatever it may be, potentially gets lost by readers who have no idea what you are saying.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-12-2007, 03:37 AM

I repay diligent reading; I am not an obscurantist, nor inarticulate. If I make your mind work in new directions, so much the better, no?

Not that thread drift is against the rules, but what is a thread named New Oxford Dictionary doing becoming It's All About Urbane Guerrilla anyway?

12-11-2007, 05:53 AM	#17
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Not so much inarguable as arguable, for you're willing, under the impression that you know it all (curable only by experience over time) to try arguing it. But I don't see validity in your basic premise. I reach deep when I speak, and that includes deeply into time, and I am not going to tailor my speech to suit persons who strike me as too shallow. They shall come to my level, not I to theirs. Thus they become better (for more knowledgeable usually is) men, and I am not called upon to practice what I can only see as personal deterioration. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

12-12-2007, 03:37 AM	#19
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I repay diligent reading; I am not an obscurantist, nor inarticulate. If I make your mind work in new directions, so much the better, no? Not that thread drift is against the rules, but what is a thread named New Oxford Dictionary doing becoming It's All About Urbane Guerrilla anyway? __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

12-11-2007, 07:25 AM	#18
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Or your message, whatever it may be, potentially gets lost by readers who have no idea what you are saying.

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