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by KatyBr
Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:15 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Text Appearence
Replies: 54
Views: 237601

unicode, not all of us see the same thing.

Can you write this ---> 龍 (dragon, 17 strokes) on paper? I would imagine you need a magnifying glass.

Flam or
龍太郎

I can't even SEE it, it's just a 龍 to me. sorry

Katy
by KatyBr
Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:36 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Jurisdiction
Replies: 4
Views: 13169

Jurisdiction

jurisdiction The geographical area over which a court or government body has the power and right to exercise authority. http://www.investorwords.com/2687/jurisdiction.html ju·ris·dic·tion (jʊr'ĭs-dĭk'shən) n. Law. The right and power to interpret and apply the 1)law: courts having jurisdiction in t...
by KatyBr
Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:07 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Text Appearence
Replies: 54
Views: 237601

easier to read?

personally I find comic sans easiest to read, I vote for that. With my sight as compromised as it is, I can't tell you how often I must edit my posts going from the tiny 'fine print' compose mode to spidery post post. When my unlearned dyslexic fingers have mangled my very intelligent ideas to a mis...
by KatyBr
Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:30 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64433

oh,
:)

Katy
by KatyBr
Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:03 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64433

gentle pets

Henri said Katy, although sometimes I suspect that in some mysterious way, we are more alike than either of us would care to admit. I'd never flatter myself thus. While I often vehemantly disagree wth just about everything you say my respect for you is much higher than any of my posts have so far in...
by KatyBr
Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:55 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Skepticism
Replies: 141
Views: 230554

I do believe it was just as August authorites who insisted we were entering an ice-age just a few decades ago. But hmmmm, they may have been mistaken, Remember in the Academic world it's publish or perish, and btw it's the 'out therre' articles that get published.

Katy
by KatyBr
Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:51 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: brackish
Replies: 4
Views: 14896

It's nice to see the Spaceman has made the transition.

Katy
by KatyBr
Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:43 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: MUNDANE
Replies: 7
Views: 17753

Meaning 2: Pedestrian.....! And I who thought it was a noun and the opposite to a motorist.
So you can say: Ah, it was only a pedestrian pedestrian I run over. :?:

:lol:

Katy
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:36 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: MUNDANE
Replies: 7
Views: 17753

nothing mondane about mondane

While it is most certainly not ethereal, It, the word mondane, is not mondane either..
Check to see if your boss or coworkers actually know what it means.

Katy
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:29 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: What is the correct usage of "affect" & "
Replies: 12
Views: 35336

falsetto

oh dear, I'm So confused!

Katy :D
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:57 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Text Appearence
Replies: 54
Views: 237601

fonts

well, let us know what yo guys decide on.

Katy
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:26 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: "Question Tags" they are important, aren't they?
Replies: 28
Views: 122563

question andd answer

something I hear on British comedies all the time: Violet:"Harvy, Why don't you never get me anything" Harvy: "I was buying you a nice big Valentine's heart box now, wasn't I?" That is a weird question tag, it both assumes the other's precognitive understanding, and 'cleans up on...
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:58 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: VALENTINE - A Preview (comments welcome)
Replies: 36
Views: 83992

For some reason, I prefer the King James version :

stalled (i e, in order to be fattened,
Henri
no one uses the word stalled for fattened(correctly: finished) anymore, it's obscure language.

Katy
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:43 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64433

another planet?

ah Henri, so mayhaps we are from differrent planets? Our mindsets couldn't be more different.

Katy
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:06 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64433

????

hmmm, so it's only one's 'pet' ecological dangers one objects to? If one's country disagrees with accepted ecological disasters, they are 'unproved', but one can indict others, one's country disagrees with. I'm reminded of the expression sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Oh please it smel...

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