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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #760 on: March 07, 2011, 11:07:32 PM »
The antonym for 'phallic' is, by all accounts, 'yonic'.

Anyone care to confirm? It doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #761 on: March 07, 2011, 11:46:10 PM »
"Ring" being the correct word, FCM

I'll confirm that yonic is to female as phallic is to male.
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #762 on: March 26, 2011, 08:07:16 PM »
antagonist --> antagonistic

protagonist --> protagonistic?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #763 on: March 26, 2011, 08:12:04 PM »
And them protagonism?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #764 on: April 25, 2011, 11:33:59 PM »
Tarp tarp tarp tarp tarp tarp tarp tarp tarp.

Semantic satiation! I knew there had to be a term for it.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #765 on: April 25, 2011, 11:35:55 PM »
And coined by a Canadian!
"We didn't clean the hamster's cage, the hamster's cage cleaned us!"

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #766 on: April 27, 2011, 06:40:22 PM »
I guess those that think impact is a noun and not a verb have officially lost? I've heard it on network newscasts like three times in the past couple days.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #767 on: May 06, 2011, 01:19:19 AM »
That "i before e except after c" rule really does suck, doesn't it?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #768 on: May 06, 2011, 07:56:53 AM »
English grammar IS Nam, no rules.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #769 on: May 06, 2011, 08:32:20 AM »
That "i before e except after c" rule really does suck, doesn't it?

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It's not supposed to be a catch-all rule for the placement of e's and i's.  It's only meant to help people remember whether it's "ei" or "ie" when there's a long E sound. 

It's still a shitty rule though, because of seize and weird.

 

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