-------------------- Ed CJ Williams CJ Graffx Christiana,Pa. cjgraffx@comcast.net Just have'n fun.... Posts: 296 | From: Christiana,Pa. | Registered: May 1999
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Somehow, watching anything by Pauly Shore ranks below a self-lobotomy on my to-do-today list...
Still, adding the suffix "-age" to words that didn't have them or need them is moronic. It has been my experience that a lot, not all, of the people spouting crap this are borderline imbeciles and pseudo-intellectuals.
It really is a shame that the word "signage" has made such inroads in the American vocabulary.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
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"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6454 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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I have been hearing that gem from the news commentators, & not only was I sick of hearing that complex word, I didn't know what it meant, so I just looked it up:
Main Entry: jux·ta·pose Pronunciation: 'j&k-st&-"pOz Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): -posed; -pos·ing Etymology: probably back-formation from juxtaposition : to place side by side <juxtapose unexpected combinations of colors, shapes and ideas -- J. F. T. Bugental>
I'll bet Doug knew what that word meant, didn't you, Doug?
-------------------- The Word in Signs Bobbie Rochow Jamestown, PA 16134
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New Englanders are the worst butchers of the English language. I've only lived here 12 years and I still can't get my mind wrapped around all the phonic rules and atrocities.
From what I gather it's got a lot to do with the letter "R". If a word has that letter you don't pronounce it. If it doesn't have that letter you have to add it at the end. A drawer is a 'drah'. A girl named Donna is called 'Donner'. My partner Dick tells me his son lives in Cali-phone-yah. A constant source of fascination, Dick also loves mashed 'bu-day-does' and using the company 'dev-it' card (debit card). He's got a million of these head-turners. Like Jane Diaz did, I should start writing them down.
SONGPAINTER Original Sign Music by Sign People NOW AVAILABLE on CD and the proceeds go to Letterville's favorite charity! Click Here for Sound Clips! Posts: 1974 | From: Orleans, MA, Cape Cod, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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hahaha thanks Bobbie, I remember you mentioning my vocabulary before, (my mom was a librarian... my dad a journalist... & my brother a spelling bee champ... I was illiterate around them )yep... "flubbergasted" was new for me, but I did know your word. I agree with you about not liking it!
I guess you Kentucky & Alabama folks get some crazy speech around there. We have very unique pidgin english (Creole) around here. It's kinda weird... but pleasant in a way, in that it reminds me of being new to the islands & very captivated by the whole other-worldlyness of it all.
deh git plenny words I no like oveah deah... funny-kine phrasing too li-dat, going stay ramble choke kine stuffs 'lredy & all bussup wit how deh stay pronounce dis & dat too brah... git mo bettah pidgin heah!
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I will not be flavoring my speech with words ending in "-age"... My speech can be spicy enough as it is, you know?
I will admit, I use the word "dude" a lot... and I say Ma'am...
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
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"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6454 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Vill really bothers me, it needs an "age" on the end. Really, what is a Vill anyway? Without the "age," it's a word just crying out to be village. It kind of makes me sad. Doesn't it make you sad too?
-------------------- Dave Parr Sign Painter USA Posts: 709 | From: USA | Registered: May 2003
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6740 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I already conceded that there were already words that had "-age" as part of the word. In village, "-age" is actually part of the word and not a suffix.
I have no problem with village. Don't forget, it takes one to raise an idiot... LOL!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
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As a reply....blecch...get some new material, champ. Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3492 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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FONT,....I really disliked that word back when we used to use the term "letter styles". Of course I say it often myself I still don't like it,.... font font font font font font, It sounds pompous or something.
-------------------- Rich Stebbing RichSigns Rohnert Park CA 707-795-5588 Posts: 755 | From: Rohnert Park, CA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Just one time, I had a deadbeat who I'd just gotten a court judgement against, refer to myself as a Proctologist's principal preoccupation. Now he was trying to be polite about it....being before a judge and all, but somehow those words really bugged me.
-------------------- Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail: kjmlhenry@rogers.com
Why do I get all those on-line offers to sell me Viagara, when the only thing hardening is my arteries ? Posts: 2684 | From: London,Ontario, Canada | Registered: Feb 1999
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Suppose perhaps that the average patronage of your business is using too much verbiage in their signage? I propose you juxtapose their bovine tillage with some common knowlege. This may well result in some furtherage to closure.
David
-------------------- David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com Trying out a new tag: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth Peter Ustinov Posts: 1450 | From: Brisbane Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Across the street, “Discount Quality Roofing” is at work. Does “Discount Quality” refer to quality work at discounted prices or has the quality been lowered to match the price? I’m guessing the latter.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5101 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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If the spillage from the village of coinage and billage falls into my tillage...
Now, let's talk about the word substrate as it relates to sign blanks and background materials...
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6454 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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I just remembered another one! Not a word, an abbreviation that is used to death:
LOL
Love.....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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