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FrayLo
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Hey people, especially you high school kids
CONVERSATE
is not a word.
thxggbye
Sep 25, 2004 3:43pm PDT
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Hey people, especially you high school kids CONVERSATE is not a word. thxggbye
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FrayLo
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Maybee I need ta axe you a few curstions.
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zigzag
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Futurama has gotten me into saying axe instead of ask. I don't even notice it anymore when I do it.
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Prozium
that shit drives me insane, i have alot of friends from NYC and upstate new york and it makes me rage whe...
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alias bean
Axe predates Futurama (and even the 1980s). Chaucer used it in the Canterbury Tales (Friar's Tale, I thi...
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Dechter
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it's not a surprise, the educational system is a failure in north america and has been for years.
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Sentinl
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sentinel.
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lakren
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Lack wren.
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Caboose
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Caboose.
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ieGod
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firefoxGod.
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Zero|DPX
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One|XPD
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cajuncook
Cajuncock
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Delithio
I know how it is spelled but the name was taken... doesn't matter anyhow because names don't have to m...
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Sentinl
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it's only a failure because no one cares anymore. parents don't enforce anything strict in their homes an...
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draconic
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You have a lazy generation now that thinks they are owed things, instead of working for them.
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GeorgeB3DR
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welcome to the instant-on generation. children borne of broadband and starbucks. i know kids that are 16 ...
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draconic
The girls dress hotter though, so that's a plus.
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GeorgeB3DR
Don't forget bullshit like "whole word learning" and self-esteem classes. If you teach a kid the skills t...
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Fred Garvin
Dude, it's a chicken egg scenario. Educators are partly at fault for experimenting with kids education at...
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Fred Garvin
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Holla at yo boy, Fraylo...its time time to conversate about this hoe that be mad tripping you
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alcueso
cum 2 my crib and we'll chilax and sip a foty.
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jahulio2
why you gotta be all racialist at my crew, frylo
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khaosman
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It's better than using 'dialogue'. I'm looking at you, middle management menz.
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slax0r
lets establish a dialogue on this next Tuesday
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cap n KRUNCH
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"dialogue" is at least a word (noun and verb). "conversate" isn't anything.
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Zero|DPX
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It's word, but when they use like that, it sounds ridiculous.
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slax0r
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conversate is not a word and it doesn't matter what context it is used in, it still won't be a word. "...
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Sentinl
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I meant that dialogue is a word, but when executives say "I'd like to dialogue with you" or "Did you dial...
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slax0r
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I didn't realize it was a verb as well. As a noun I don't think it's so bad. What you just used as exampl...
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Chunks
it isn't a verb as far as I know :P
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Sentinl
yeah that does sound ridiculous.. when answering just say something like "yes I did TALK(raise voice) wi...
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Sentinl
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Yes, dialogue is a verb, and no, that doesn't sound bad (grammar-wise), maybe just unfamiliar to you and ...
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Zero|DPX
Usage Note: In recent years the verb sense of dialogue meaning “to engage in an informal exch...
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Vantage
unfortunately since it was used in a few rap songs, kids think it's a word.
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FrayLo
High school kids? Dont you work at Boeing?
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Squirrely
it will be
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mista mista
You better conservate you wisdom, it's lost on us.
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pinkeye
I think George Carlin should be required video material, sure it's offensive, but it's verbose and he eve...
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Tawler
Soon it will be. :)
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melancoholicz