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Can hardly/barely...
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So, "can" you? Hardly or barely see/hear/read/feel...
Why say you CAN see something when you can't see it? submitted by canardly
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Captain Jack Sparrow
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fdfdfdsfsdffsdfdsf submitted by Alex Kondrakov
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Cheers
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A toast. Like "your good health".
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Chicken Coq au Vin
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Chicken -- Chicken in wine submitted by Kevin
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Chicken-fried chicken
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For whatever reason, back around 1990, the world decided to increase its redundancy factor with this one. By its very nature, fried chicken is "Chicken-fried." Said another way, wouldn't you feel silly ordering, "Chicken, fried in the manner of fried chicken?" Chicken-fried steak is exactly that, steak fried as if it were chicken. Thus, it deserves the denotation. Chicken, although it may be pan-fried or deep fat-fried, cannot, by the rules of logic (which state that it's just not cricket to use an object to justify itself) be chicken-fried. So drive a waitress crazy sometime, and order a big plate of fried chicken!! submitted by Colonel Sanders' Evil Twin
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Christian
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It means followers of Christ - someone who promoted peace, forgiveness, help for the poor and no salvation for the rich.
It has been appropriated by people who promote exactly the opposite of what is in the New Testament: war, three-strikes-and-out for crime, lower welfare and lower taxes for the rich. submitted by David Galbraith
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Chum Bucket
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Cialis
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Classical
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I hate when people use the word Classical to essentially mean any music pre-1950 or so that wasn't folk music. All the music that is lumped together under 'classical' actually varies a lot, with classical music being one of many categories, including romantic, baroque, etc.
Strictly speaking, Classical should refer to things from ancient Greek and Roman society, so 'classical' music would then be ancient Greek and Roman music, not Vivaldi, Beethoven, Handel, et cetera... submitted by
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Clearly
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Overused by lawyers everywhere in verbose legal briefs. The typical lawyer believes that use of this word will automatically reveal that the proposition they advance is beyond question, as in "Clearly, the DMCA is a narrowly tailored statute designed to achieve a permissible purpose..." Once the word "clearly" is used the reader's judgment is paralyzed and they are forced to accept the proposition. submitted by
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Collateral damage
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A euphemisim often used in the media and military in regard to civillian deaths.
Here are accepted definitions from a dictionary for collateral
Situated or running side by side; parallel.
Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.
Serving to support or corroborate: collateral evidence.
Of a secondary nature; subordinate: collateral target damage from a bombing run.
Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation: a collateral loan.
Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.
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speaks for itself... submitted by somebody
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Competitions
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An event in which people compete, as in a contest of skill. submitted by Competitions
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Compremise
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Ok this word means something like when two or more people want different things but they all agree on something, right? I mean correct me if i'm wrong but i want to get this straight. Have you watched the news lately they have been using compremise but they have been using the word as "cope" i mean if someone has to cope with something than why don't you just use the word cope, duh. (Example: "Well i guess florida just has to compremise with the damage from the hurricanes" submitted by Diamond Jim
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Congratulations
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Why do you congratulate me for buying a car? I am thousands more in debt now than I was five minutes ago. I am taking a big risk that this vehicle will not be a lemon. Why are you congratulating me? Shouldn't you thank me for being your customer instead?
Where I grew up, I learned how to say thank you. When I worked at a small pet store in high school, I learned how to thank our customers.
In today's society, many corporations and their salesfolks don't say thank you, they say, "Congratulations".
Beware. One of the first signs that a salesperson doesn't believe his product offers value equal to the price you paid, is when that salespersons congratulates you. submitted by Jerry Asher
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Convenience
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...as in "convenience fee".
Perhaps this isn't so much a pirated word as a doublespeak phrase, but I can't stand gov't bureaucracies such as the IRS that charge a so-called "convenience fee" for handling transactions electronically. Hey, I only handle one 1040 a year, but you handle many millions. I think YOU should be paying ME a convenience fee for not snail-mailing a crumpled, smeared, coffee-stained, handwritten long-form. submitted by spiff
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Conversation
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The word really means, 1. The spoken exchange of thoughts, opinions, and feelings; talk. 2. An informal discussion of a matter. It does NOT equate to a 'market' or 'market' as proposed the cluetrain pirates. submitted by
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Cool
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Cop-Killer Bullet
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Handgun ammunition capable of defeating soft body armor, as worn by police officers, was invented in the 1960s for police officers who found it hard to defeat automobile doors and window glass. In 1982, NBC made a "story" out of the projectile, despite the fact that any rifle or shotgun projectile can easily defeat soft body armor. There is only one incident of a police officer being shot in the U.S. by a handgun projectile specifically designed to defeat body armor. In 1994, a company attempted to market handgun ammunition called "Black Rhino," which claimed to defeat body armor. However, the ammunition was never marketed. As a consequence of bad publicity, Winchester's "Black Talon" expanding ammunition was pulled from the market. Resultingly, any bullet that was black, had the name "black" on its packaging, or was reported to have any amount of teflon, has been mistakenly labelled a "Cop-Killer Bullet." Despite the complete lack of evidence that any such ammunition has ever been used to injure or kill a law enforcement officer, anti-gun groups, certain Senators, and Presidential administrations have used a non-existent projectile to terrify the American public. It is generally believed that the entire concept of this obvious propaganda scheme is to eventually define all projectiles, for rifles, shotguns, and pistols as "armor-piercing," thus giving an open door to prescribe all ammunition, including that for sporting use, as "Cop-Killer Bullets." submitted by Brian
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Copyrights
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The very first words of Section 106 of the United States Copyright Act make all exclusive rights of the copyright owner "subject to" superior rights of the public, outlined in sections 107-122. For example, the exclusive right of the copyright owner to authorize copying is "subject to" everyone else's superior section 107 right to make fair use copies, and the exclusive right to distribute copies is "subject to" the superior section 109 right of the owner of a lawful copy to sell it, lend it or give it away. The word is being pirated by powerful copyright holding companies who impress upon lawmakers and the press the baseless notion that their rights are superior to the very same rights to which they are subject. That way, they can get away with using technological devices (like tethering copies to a single computer, or making copies self-destruct) to, for example, prevent people from exercising their superior right to lend, sell or give away perfectly legal copies to less fortunate persons who might never be able to pay full price for a new copy. They are the true copyright pirates. submitted by John T. Mitchell
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Creation Science
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a seemingly scientific endorsement for religious creationism. Just having the appearance of Science doesn't mean it is Science. submitted by MonkeyBoy
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Creation Theory
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Creationists either use the term pejoratively ("evolution is only a theory"), or they misapply the term to creationism. In scientific usage, a theory is the highest form of scientific understanding. A theory is an explanatory hypothesis which has passed test after test, and is still the best available explanation of the facts in question. In the case of creationism, however, those components of the apology which can be tested (e.g., the idea that the earth is only six thousand years old and was covered by a shell of water in the year 2,348 B.C.E.) have been tested and found to be demonstrably false - showing that creationism is not a viable theory, because viable theories have to pass tests. On the other hand, those components of creationism which involve certain types of magical events (e.g., the divine creation of a young universe with all of its components bearing the false imprint of great age) make the claims of creationism untestable - making creationism not a theory at all, because theories must be testable!
Source: http://www.atheists.org/evolution/creationscience.html submitted by
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Customer Service
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This word is currently too often used as a euphemism for "There is no way you can get in touch with us, and you're a dolt for trying." When companies erase all phone numbers from their websites and only let you submit a plaintive query through an HTML form, and then e-mail you back saying that they can't help you and that you should check the user group chatrooms on the web, THAT, nowadays, is customer service. submitted by Matt O
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Cutthroat Canker
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cache
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calendar
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Using the word "calendar" as a verb is misguided and wrong. A calendar is a noun, people! When bossman says, "calendar that" I feel like saying "calendar this." submitted by
Call volume means what it says. The problem is the usage:
"Due to unusually heavy call volume your wait time will be X" (where X is some longer time than anyone should stand)
Really means: We're too cheap to staff our call center with the number of people we need to do business effectively. After all, we have known long enough that we could record this spiffy message on our automated call distribution system. submitted by Bob Stratton
The correct phrase is can't eat your cake and have it, too ... for obvious reasons. If you have your cake, obviously you can eat it but if you eat it you no longer have it. submitted by
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candy
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captin jack sparrow
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The best pirate in the world.He also is very good at sword fighting. submitted by sarah(captin jack sparrow
The origin of this is in the way one encouraged a donkey to haul you and your cart around: you tied a carrot on a string, tied the string to a stick, and held it in front of your donkey's nose, which led them to try to reach the carrot, which always moved away as they walked.
It DOES NOT MEAN carrot (treat) and stick (thwack). Really. submitted by metropolitan
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carrot or a stick
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Misused as an alterntive between a good thing (carrot) or a bad one (a stick.) The actual phrase is "carrot ON a stick"--the image being a horse with stick attached to its halter with a carrot dangling on the end--getting to the dangling carrot urges him on, yet it always stays tantalizingly just out of reach.... submitted by
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carrot or stick
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casualty
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The word means: One injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy.
In much discourse, people use the word to mean "killed", not killed, injured, or missing. submitted by Craig
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catch 22
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chai tea
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Chai is the Hindi word for tea! When you ask for a cup of "chai tea" you are asking for a cup of tea tea! submitted by Asha
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chairperson
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The word is "chairman". It is NOT sexist, except in the tiny minds of goofy partisans with an agenda and no knowledge of language. The PC crowd can screw themselves. There is no assumption of sex. Just like "mailman", "repairman", "craftsman", etc., the -man suffix does NOT mean "male". It comes from the Old English word for "one" (as in "one who crafts", or "one who repairs", etc). submitted by RavinDave
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challenge
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The word challenge means a serious test, but it is used when the word "problem" would be the better word.An example of using the word "challenge" correctly would be "Homeless people in our community is a problem, and solving this problem is a challenge." Instead, usually the problem is refered to as a "challenge." This strikes me as irritating because it is somehow considered unacceptable to have a problem, and refering to problems as challenges is artificially upbeat. When I hear the word "challenge" used, I subsitute the word "problem", and at least half the time, problem is the truer word. submitted by Georgette Constant
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chance
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check please
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How is the bill somehow the check? submitted by
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cheers
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Do you mean thank you?
In rsponse to cheers I respond "your good health". Cheers is (an apology for) a toast. submitted by dmb06851
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chemical abuse
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How can you mistreat a chemical? submitted by
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chick
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eloow , im from belgium , but i think , a chick , isn't that an animal , ( chicken but shorter pronounced). and now its a good looking woman. i dont care . lol submitted by sander de bondt
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chicken
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chiclits
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buble gum or chic clit's submitted by james bondage
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chim chong
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la la la al la lal la la la la la la la l al a la la l a la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la al al l al al la al al la lal al ala la laa la la la la submitted by
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cholesterol-free
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This is designed to make people think a foodstuff is fat-free, disguising the fact that it has plenty of fat, which your body turns into cholesterol. submitted by Harvey Ardman
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cleaving
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client
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Someone who pays for goods or services such as legal advice.
Pirated use by social services and other relationships in new politically correct speech. submitted by
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close proximity
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how close can proximity get? submitted by
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closure
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It means something is over and ended. It has been pirated because it is a one word phrase for meaning the end of the crime, jury trial, and a person sent to jail and the family of the victim is satisfied. (?) submitted by
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closure (revisited)
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Re: closure posted on 9/26:
Yeah...this word certainly got heisted...I had a saying during its heyday: I'd like to see closure on the word "closure." :)
For me...the word has always been a math term: Given a set and an operator on that set...when the results of the operation return to the set: that's closure.
Ex: the set of integers under addition: -2 + 8 <==returns an int. submitted by -pea-
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clothes
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co-op & co-opt
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The phrase is actually a shortened form of "cooperative," as in a cooperative venture where several like-minded businesses pool their resources for shared profit. It is now being used for anything that might remotely be shared. "Co-op" is often confused with "co-opt" which is another way of saying "hijacked" or "pirated." submitted by Poohma
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cobbled
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past tense of what a cobbler does, however it's been pirated by journalists to describe back-room deals that have been cobbled together to satisfy a particular cause submitted by
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cockbadger
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overly used, not by corporates so much but people. People they alwasy annoy me submitted by
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cohort
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Misuse of the word is rampant! A cohort is a group and the word comes from early Roman times when a cohort was a division within a Roman legion. People insist on using words incorrectly and then the corruption becomes standard use. "He was his employer's COHORT in crime." A person can't be a group. Drives me crazy (short trip). submitted by Robbie
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coke
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Used to reference any carbonated drink in the Southern US. submitted by Tom Trevathan
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collaboration
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collaborative
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Used incorrectly to mean cooperation. I can sometimes mean:
to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and especially an occupying force
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colorized
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The word is COLOURED submitted by
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come over here
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communities
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Community is another word often best cut out. Not only is it usually unnecessary, it purports to convey a sense of togetherness that may well not exist. The black community means blacks, the business community means businessmen, the homosexual community means homosexuals, the intelligence community means spies, the international community, if it means anything, means other countries, aid agencies or, just occasionally, the family of nations.
(isn't that nice? From The Economist's Style Guide)
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community
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Many companies and real estate developers use this as an exalted synonym for something as banal as "users of a particular product" or "neighborhood" (as in "gated-community"). But merely using the same product or living in the same locale does not guarantee, and seldom produces, the warmth and human friendship suggested by the more general understanding of the word "community." After all, even a jail is a "gated community." submitted by Bob Morrison
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company
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compassionate
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as in 'compassionate conservativism.' why change your platform when you can just add a word in front of your political affiliation? roland barthes is rolling in his grave about this one submitted by
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competition
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The Telecom Act of 1996 envisioned that competition would substitute for regulation. Today, "competition" is being used as a catch-all phrase to mean anything that will slow the demise of the incumbent telephone companies. In a particularly Orwellian incarnation, incumbents say that more mergers (industry consolidation) will increase competition. submitted by David S. Isenberg
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computer
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comune
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Molly Ivins in a op-ed piece about schwarzenegger
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/story/7298330p-8242880c.html
claims that arnold looks like "a condom stuffed with walnuts"
If her turn of phrase sticks...she has done a diservice to all condoms and all walnuts everywhere. submitted by
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conflict management
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consense
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This is not even a word. submitted by
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conservative
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Appropriated by both parties, this word formerly meant only "favoring traditional points of view and evolutionary change." Now it's just another label with positive or negative connotations (depending on your point of view) submitted by
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consumer
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conversate
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More and more, this non-word is being used as if it were real. And you can tell that some people are not speaking in slang when they use it; they believe they are being very literate! The correct word here is "converse". submitted by The Equalist
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cookie
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Cookies are edible snacks that you eat. Cookies are not little files on a computer tracking internet usage. submitted by laughs a lot
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cool
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originally a jazz term for unexcitable, it is now used to describe all sorts of totally unexciting things, with the understanding that anything so totally dull and must brim with hidden virtues, as in:
Q: "I just got my eyelid pierced and bought Windows XE. Wadja think?"
A: "Cool!" submitted by
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copius
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corel
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could care less
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This issue is actually important to me. (exactly the opposite of what the speaker means)
Ignorant English speakers have dropped the "n't" from "couldn't care less" completely reversing the intent of this common expression of indifference. submitted by Bob Stratton
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couldn't care less
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Pirated word:
courtesy call
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This has gotta be one of the worst! There's nothing "courteous" about an unsolicited interruption in your private or business life. ESPECIALLY if it's a RECORDING saying "Your call/time/opinion/etc. is very important to us." (But since all of our operators are busy interrupting other people, please hold ....) submitted by Gracie-A
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crime
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croak
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cross and bones
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cross and ones
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cunt
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cup
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current, currently
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current is electricity.... not timely or the present one..or the newest... currently to mean now is now, not currently submitted by
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cutlass
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cyberphile
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cyberspace
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The word was coined by William Gibson in his novel
"Neuromancer"; it referred to a shared conceptual space inhabited by people directly "jacked in" to a worldwide
computer network, the description of which makes it either a far-off descendant of, or an evolutionary alternative to,
the World Wide Web. To use "cyberspace" and "World Wide Web"
interchangeably is incorrect and largely hype.
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czxczxc
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