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I look on the stock market: diversify. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Thanks for the link, I didn't know what diversify meant.

And what's the difference between a Geek and a Dork?

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
Main Entry: geek
Pronunciation: 'gEk
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German
Date: 1914
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of


http://www.yourdictionary.com/
dork
(dôrk)
n.
Slang: A stupid, inept, or foolish person: "the stupid antics of America's favorite teen-age cartoon dorks" (Joshua Mooney).
Vulgar Slang: The penis.


I have also heard the word dork used as slang in referring to a whale's penis.

One could also argue that those pictures of nekid women that you have in your journal not only perpetuates the sexual exploitation or woman, but is sexist and demeaning. And a "disgrace to women."

And talking about the G-spot in your post is in itself a form of trashtalking and shows a lack of modesty.

As bad as "wad" may sound to you, it is actually a word, that had other meanings long before it it obtained a sexual connotation. Like the phrase "a wad of bubblegum."

While the original meaning of the word "wad" is being subverted to mean something else sexual, like most language it's regional. The majority of areas in this country (and the world) the word "wad" means nothing else besides "bundle," and most people wouldn't have a clue about what you are talking about.

While the word "wad" is undoubtedly taking advantage of this and is a play upon the word, there is alot more to be offended about the game Doom than some vague sexual reference, like the "mindless violence" it has.

Your hypocrisy makes you look like a troll. Also realize that sexual innuendo is everywhere these days.

A concept may be easier to express in Chinese, but you don't see many novels written in English with Chinese added here and there.

I don't know about that...I think the common usage of words from other languages in English writing provides a certain je ne sais quoi. Admittedly, use of other languages in English writing can be confusing. Especially when it is done to showboat, attempting to project the ersatz impression one is a member of the intelligentsia, when in fact they are little more than a schmuck, a putz, et cetera...in any case they deserve a good kick in the tokhis. If this gets out of hand things could run amuck. Capice?

Now, the problem of when to use a foreign word in your writing could be the source of considerable angst. How do you know when its the appropriate moment for a bon mot. Are you expected to be some kind of polyglot!? It could drive you loco!

I think your choice of metaphor is excellent - unfortunately it comes close to proving the opposite of your conclusion. Using the best tool at the right time can be very efficient. Even quickly throwing something together can be very effective, just making it up on the spot to fit your need...ad hoc, so to speak, e.g. the word television (although half Greek and half Latin...well you know...)

English itself is a lower Germanic language that has been infused/hybridized with Scandanavian, French, Latin and Greek, to name just the most significant influences. In fact most of our grammar is latinate by custom, imported omnibus by pompous scholars who thought English 'ought' to be like Latin, not by need and certainly not because that's the most useful place for our language to be at. (Reminds me of how every language seems to read like C these days...)

I don't disagree that uniformity often leads to quality, but it isn't a precondition. Standards are important - but ultimatly those standards are in place to affect cost savings and if a "script" can provide a real efficiency than it's a good bet that it would be beneficial to use.

Anyways, I don't claim to be any kind of guru or sensei about this stuff. But from where I stand, just like the struggle between providing security and providing features that is seen when designing an application, the tension between standards and specialized tools when choosing what coding platform to use is all part of a balance.

It's sort of a...yin-yang kind of thing....

It's not stupid -- at least no stupider than many, many Japanese words. It's an onomatopoeia (like "snap" or "buzz"), which are much more common in Japanese speech than in English. As such, Japanese distinguishes between three kinds of onomatopoeia:

gisei-go imitate the sounds of nature.
gitai-go relate to the state of tangible things.
gijou-go relate to internal feelings.

The last two aren't onomatopoeia in the traditional English sense since they are not imitating actual sounds; rather, they're portraying an ethereal sense of things. More details here.

Anyway, pachinko is derived from the gisei-go word pachi-pachi, which imitates the clicking together of small objects or the sound of hands clapping. So it's appropriate, and it's a fairly standard Japanese construction.

the company has to taylor it[emphasis mine]

What have Taylor series got to do with it? Oh, wait... I bet you meant tailor . ;-P

Getting "meta", eh? I'm sure the book includes this word, then:

SESQUIPEDALIAN

n.
A long word.

adj.
Given to the use of long words.
Long and ponderous; polysyllabic.

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This is all I could come up with, thanks to yourdictionary.com. I don't understand humor, either. By the way, I am a joyless tool.
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Main Entry: (1)hu.mor
Pronunciation: 'hyü-m&r, 'yü-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English humour, from Middle French humeur, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin humor, from Latin humor, umor moisture; akin to Old Norse vokr damp, Latin humEre to be moist, and perhaps to Greek hygros wet
Date: 14th century
1 a : a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid (as the blood or lymph) b : a secretion (as a hormone) that is an excitant of activity
2 a in medieval physiology : a fluid or juice of an animal or plant; specifically : one of the four fluids entering into the constitution of the body and determining by their relative proportions a person's health and temperament b : characteristic or habitual disposition or bent : TEMPERAMENT c : an often temporary state of mind imposed especially by circumstances d : a sudden, unpredictable, or unreasoning inclination : WHIM
3 a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous c : something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing synonym see WIT
- out of humor : out of sorts

Main Entry: (2)humor
Function: transitive verb
Date: 1588
Inflected Form(s): hu.mored; hu.mor.ing
/'hyUm-ri[ng], 'yUm-, 'hyU-m&-, 'yU-/ 1 : to soothe or content by indulgence
2 : to adapt oneself to
synonym see INDULGE

Main Entry: sat.ire
Pronunciation: 'sa-"tIr
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough -- more at SAD
Date: 1501
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
synonym see WIT

if you are nerdy enough to want the computer to have artificial intelligence sufficent to be able to play the game for you when you arent there, then you had better start hoping they implement artificial intelligence in girls sometime soon, cause no girl with 'real' intelligence is gonna wanna touch you ... hehehe

... and are they gonna implement a female version of the ai to play the games? some qualities required by this ai would be to

- question the purpose of playing the game at all
- suggest that instead of playing you do something 'romantic' instead of playing "boring computer games"
- ask why you dont talk to the characters to see what issues they have that would make them so violent, instead of riddling them all with bullets.
- complain about the breast/hip size of all the female characters in the game, and make snide comments about their skimpy attire

(although i must admit i jiggled the boobs of the Aribeth model in the char viewer in NWN for ages hehehe)

The editors are just a bunch of lazy-ass motherfuckers.

Coming from a country of linguistic puritans (Iceland), I think that it is vital for a language to have a committee of knowledgable people working to come up with new words to describe new things, instead of just accepting every new English term that comes along. That said, the native speakers usually decide amongst themselves if that word is a good addition/suggestion or not, just by using it or not!

What's most important is to protect the overall feel and rythm of a language, and having good people dedicated to that cause is applaudable! Why aren't people as worried about languages becoming extinct as they are about animals?

Regarding the word "blog", it seems to have made it into the Icelandic language, as we now have the verb to "blogga" and some people are known as "bloggari". And as far as I know, it only applies to personal blogs and bloggers... :) "Chat" on the other hand is useless as an Icelandic word, and we use "spjall" instead, which means chit-chat...

And incase is one word. What's your point?

I think you'll find a dictionary is necessary.

The phrase is hear hear pillock

CNet has identified a bunch of "others" that the EFF represents. Why not say that EFF represents COMPUTER USERS? They are the group identified when some new M$ transmitted disease is reported. The EFF is devoted to protecting everyone's rights to free speech, they just happen to specialize in digital speech. The author did not feel like he was part of that group.

Sure, I'd like to think I'm a hacker. I bought a house that had an extra bedroom to devote to my hobbies. Ah, so many pleasant hours spent there, but it is trivial and in vain if I can not share it. The negative terms associated with that word keeps me from using it. See also this and that dictionary for more unflattering meanings.

Information wants to not be anthropomorphised.