I didn't put a limit on knowledge. And I don't give a fig for what others may throw at me as their idea of a pejorative. Their estimation of me or anyone or anything else is theirs. We can always discuss, but it not a given that either one of us needs change our views at the end of the discussion. I...

David, please, don't despair.
VOTE! (I don't care where you live)

Debby M

Slava, I agree.
I would offer the idea that one proper way, if not THE proper way, to add a bit of support without stiffening the brain, is called "knowledge".

Slava, going to have to ponder that a bit.
Will be in touch.

Slava, could you explain a bit about the source of your discomfort?

Is "major" also from the same root?

I must admit to being a bit surprised that the teenagers' favorite "ortho-" was not first on the list.

Orthodonture.

Slava, my point precisely!

well, perhaps with a touch of the Gorgon to it also?)

David, from where I sit, you're as attractive as ever. The superficial (or superfacial in this case?) is of "no mind nor merit" in my world. In your case, as with the others I've met on here, the mind IS the merit and all that is required for people in my world to be gorgeous. (hmmmm wonde...

winsome man

handsome woman

any comments?

Slava,
May seem more polite, but much depends on tone of voice, no?

Dear Doctor,
Did you have the hiccups?
The posting appeared twice on here.

Barbara, really?
Chicanery on the part of large companies dealing in large contracts in politically granted jobs funded by taxpayers?
Of course that can't be true!
You'd think the taxpayers didn't vote or something...

sigh

The City, it be Melbourne, no?

Oh! really? Despite my mother's avoidance of all things culinary and linguistic from her early years until one of my elder sisters went to Brandeis, kvetch was in use often in our house. There were other words and phrases that didn't break through till cousins began having bar mitzvahs (no bat mitzv...