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shelflifers
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 Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:32 Post subject: We use a vocabulary of...
500 words in our lives.
At least that's what the average adult is equipped with. Kinda scary...
In 500 words or less, what are you thoughts on this?
:shelfie scuffles off to buy 'Word of the Day Toilet Paper': 
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:33 Post subject:
After seeing that headcheese picture, i'm all out of words.
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:37 Post subject:
Since I started posting here many years ago, my vocabulary has increased. Although most of the words are PG-13
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:38 Post subject: Re: We use a vocabulary of...
| shelflifers wrote: | 500 words in our lives.
At least that's what the average adult is equipped with. Kinda scary...
In 500 words or less, what are you thoughts on this?
:shelfie scuffles off to buy 'Word of the Day Toilet Paper': |
Remember, that's average.
The challenged guy who can utter no more than 25 words is lumped in with the same guy who knows 25,000.
It's all relative.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:41 Post subject:
I thought it was all good. Now you tell me it is all relative?
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:42 Post subject:
My relatives aren't all good but most of them are....
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:43 Post subject:
Does that make the theory of relativity all good?
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:44 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | I thought it was all good. Now you tell me it is all relative? |
I didn't even know we were RELATED! 
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:45 Post subject:
There are too many beautifully descriptive words to be that limited. I dislike redundancy.
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:55 Post subject:
so where's this headcheese picture? 
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elkid
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 11:57 Post subject:
| Dancinghomer wrote: | | so where's this headcheese picture? |
A request! A legitimately interested request!
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 12:00 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | There are too many beautifully descriptive words to be that limited. I dislike redundancy. |
Say that again?
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shelflifers
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 12:01 Post subject:
| Dancinghomer wrote: | | so where's this headcheese picture? |
Dancinghomer, you just lost 200 cool points, my friend.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN, MAN!!!!
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 12:04 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | There are too many beautifully descriptive words to be that limited. I dislike redundancy. |
True.
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Posted: 09/10/04 - 12:09 Post subject:
I tend to agree with the statement.
Listen to an average conversation and you will hear lots of repeated words. If you listen to a conversation between some (mostly GenX) people (reguadless of sex) you will hear a lot of four letter words. I often wonder if some of these supposedly educated people learned any other adjectives...
This is the main reason I keep telling my daughter shut off those one dimentional "reality" shows on MTV. It would seem the players in these little vignettes have to use a bleeped word about every fourth word.
Don't get me wrong, I can blast off with the best of them. I just don't think its necessary to use these words in a polite and reasoned conversation.
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