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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:07 AM Original message |
Excorciate... spew... hyperbole... vitriol... who talks like that?? |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
1. I do |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You mean I'm not the only one? |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. That's interesting. I have never, ever heard 'vitriol' spoken aloud |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 04:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. don't use it often - but have used it... |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 04:33 AM Response to Reply #3 |
27. I've definitely heard it spoken aloud. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:03 AM Response to Reply #3 |
45. I usually use it as the modifier "vitriolic" |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. Those are all in my daily vocabulary |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:17 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Your DAILY vocabulary?? Erudite! |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:25 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Not in my daily vocab,, but certainly in my weekly lexicon. nt |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. I youse dem frek...freq...frek...a lot nt |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
6. LOL......PT |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 06:04 AM Response to Reply #6 |
33. Now THERE's an Internet word not spoken: LOL |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. ... |
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Rabblevox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
9. I use "spew" and "hyperbole" regularly in speech. "excoriate" and and "vitriol"... |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:49 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Mr. dixie uses excoriate frequently... |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
10. I use every one except "excorciate" when I speak. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:34 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Yes. Why don't we like "excoriate"? |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:01 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Not a matter of liking or disliking the word, just never used it. |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:11 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. I, personally, am a great fan of the word 'excoriate'... it's like ideational seppuku.... |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Oh, I've heard that, as well as all the words in the OP. n/t |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
11. TeeVee Words... |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
13. I think you are mistaking "Internet only" for "more commonly used in writing than in speech" |
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Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
16. I use all of those words. Nothing wrong with using or not using them. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:56 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Well I didn't say there's anything wrong with it. |
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Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 06:58 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. I forgot to add |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
19. Those are ordinary words. Of course people talk like that. |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:46 AM Response to Original message |
20. I used the word dearth the other day |
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Tom Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
21. I expurgate sputum now and then... |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:29 AM Response to Original message |
23. Eschew obfuscation! |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:09 AM Response to Reply #23 |
47. LOL! I used obfuscate on a smart alec "advaced" student the other day and she |
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Populist_Prole (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:52 AM Response to Original message |
24. Let's see |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 04:38 AM Response to Original message |
28. I use those words... |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 05:17 AM Response to Original message |
29. You'll rue the day! n/t |
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Madam Mossfern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 05:36 AM Response to Original message |
30. Yes, I do |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
31. They're usually describing language you don't hear face to face. nt |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 05:44 AM Response to Original message |
32. uh, lots of people. Most of the people I know have a command of language |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 06:11 AM Response to Original message |
34. Actually, I am one who does |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
36. I thought you'd have been intimately familiar with "hyperbole"...nt |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:14 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. +1000 |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:54 AM Response to Reply #36 |
43. Sarcasm is the single most over worked and thus most constantly |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:12 AM Response to Reply #43 |
48. Just be glad he isn't defiling the picture of Eugene Levy with his anti-comedy any longer. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #48 |
58. Fixed the sig pic, just for you...nt |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. It's OK. Eugene Levy post SCTV work has been execrable. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. C'mon now, the stuff with Chris Guest han't been too bad... |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #60 |
62. All kidding aside, Christopher Guest is a comic genius. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:40 AM Response to Reply #36 |
55. ! |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
38. Not only do I talk like that, I've been asked 'why do you talk like |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
39. Of your four examples |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
40. Perspective, dear Bluebear, perspective. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:33 AM Response to Reply #40 |
51. LOlololol |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
41. I do. |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
42. It's like Church languange |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
44. I use them when I'm with others who love language. I also occasionally use |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
46. I have a four year old grand son who knows how |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
49. Those are common enough words. I've used all of them in speech and |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
50. In excoriating this post, it is not hyperbolic to spew a bit of vitriol. |
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Creideiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
52. I also use "exacerbate" frequently |
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Creideiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:37 AM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Oh, and I also use "abdicate" frequently |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
54. i've heard vitriol used in political reporting for a long time now. hyperbole's used a lot on the |
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masmdu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
56. My dog's name is "Spew" so I use it daily. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
57. Most of us here are smarter than the average person and have large vocabularies. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
61. The written word is often more "expressive" than the spoken word |
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