What ails you?

[StillILearn]

At the risk of appearing to be ham-fisted (and as long as we're playing with words), the below has been cracking me up for some time now:

clique (kl"k, klik), n., v., cliqued, cli·quing.
–n.
1. a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
–v.i.
2. Informal. to form, or associate in, a clique.
[1705–15; < F, appar. metaphorical use of MF clique latch, or n. deriv. of cliquer to make noise, resound, imit. word parallel to CLICK1]
—cliqueÆless, adj.
—cliÆquey, cliÆquy, adj.
—cliÆquism, n.
—Syn. 1. See circle, ring 1.

 

[novella]

Okay, let's talk about words.

How do you say 'often'?

 

[StillILearn]

Just call this thread the BAR sick bay.

Hormones. All the ills of the world quite simply come down to hormones in the end.

Still, prepared for plays on words.

 

[StillILearn]

Okay, let's talk about words.

How do you say 'often'?

Rhymes with orange -- I mean soften.

 

[raffaellabella]

I am ashamed to say that I have a very lazy tongue and pronounce it "off-in". Oh and everyone loves it when I say strawberry, it comes out "shtrawberry".

 

[ylris611203]

There are six or seven definitions of rock--knowing one definition doesn't nullify the others, does it, fishy?

I see what you mean with the rock example, nice one, but it is not a very good analogy when comparing it to a Stigmata. Stigma, ok you can have that one, but not Stigmata.

It the Holy sense as you suggested a few threads ago; Stigmata relates to Jesus wounds. And as far as I know Jesus did not type.

 

[ylris611203]

How can we be sure what Jesus' wounds were considering the sources we have were corrupted?

Go fish!

Well, that is a big statement to make without backing it up with some evidence.

 

[novella]

I see what you mean with the rock example, nice one, but it is not a very good analogy when comparing it to a Stigmata. Stigma, ok you can have that one, but not Stigmata.

It the Holy sense as you suggested a few threads ago; Stigmata relates to Jesus wounds. And as far as I know Jesus did not type.

In the holy sense, my stigmata have nothing to do with the long-dead white guy who lived in the middle east and apparently spoke the Queen's English. My fingers are totally holy in their own right, and my stigmata are the true signs of their holiness.

 

[novella]

Oh, no, crickey. It was Aramaic, not English, wasn't it? The closest surviving tongue of which, Syriac, is on the verge of being wiped out by the present factional wars in Iraq. Hmmmm. Who do you think has more in common with Jesus - - I mean Yahweh - -- the average Iraqi or the average American?

 

[sirmyk]

...not a very good analogy when comparing it to a Stigmata. Stigma, ok you can have that one, but not Stigmata.

"Stigmata" is the plural form of "stigma", as "fish" is the singular form of "fishes".

In the holy sense, my stigmata have nothing to do with the long-dead white guy who lived in the middle east and apparently spoke the Queen's English.

Thine examples are correct, my lord, novella. And it came to pass, thy word hast changed over time to richer language, that or our good shepherd, King James, descendant of Jesus of Al-Qaeda.

 

[ylris611203]

"Stigmata" is the plural form of "stigma", as "fish" is the singular form of "fishes".

That is not quite correct.

Fish is the singular form of fishes only if you are referring
to more than one type of fish otherwise it is fish.