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Postby Cacasenno » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:54 pm

abstruse

SYLLABICATION: ab·struse
PRONUNCIATION: b-strs, b-
ADJECTIVE: Difficult to understand; recondite. See synonyms at ambiguous.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin abstrsus, past participle of abstrdere, to hide : abs-, ab-, away; see ab–1 + trdere, to push; see treud- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: ab·strusely —ADVERB
ab·struseness —NOUN

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
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Postby Perry » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:21 pm

People might be easier to understand, if they weren't always working on their abs. :roll:
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Postby Stargzer » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:47 pm

The first time I ran across it I felt that ASN.1 should have been called Abstruse Syntax Notation.
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Postby Modi » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:10 pm

Women are always abstruse.
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Postby Perry » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:05 pm

Time for Abstruse or Consequences. 8)
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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Postby Stargzer » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:15 am

Thank you, Bob Barker. (That's as far back as I can remember first-hand).
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