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Individuals who have been active in Mensa groups, but are not official members or concerns related to extensive butchering of language by even college graduates, there may come a time when intelligent individuals will appreciate possible communication with people who didn't sleep through English 101

Greasings and salivations!

I am quite emphatically not being tongue-in-cheek when I rant about people who slept through (or never signed up for!) English 101. I grow ever weary of people who use Random Capitalization For Emp... | posted by offcenterlarry

5 replies - last reply: "I taught college composition for... more" ~ schlomo

15 pagan eponyms

Many of our English words derive from the names of pagan gods and goddesses and famous people and places (fictitious and real) from ancient Greece and Rome. Here is a list of some of the least well... | posted by schlomo

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I AM UNOFFICIALLY A MENSA MEMBER - WOW!

I must say, this group intrigues me. Is it that we have so few intelligent people on Eons - or is it that the group needs more publicity? ('scuse that hyphen folks - I DO write the way I talk) Int... | posted by laughingspirits

5 replies - last reply: "Wow, Dude (or Dudette)! Ever heard... more" ~ offcenterlarry

Try this instead...

If a chicken and a half could lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long does it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle? | posted by offcenterlarry

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singular

At the risk of verbally masturbating, is the singular an Exla>, or an E>la>? (See my earlier post on the letter eck, if you're not up to speed.) | posted by offcenterlarry

1 reply - last reply: "At the risk of falling into my own... more" ~ ms0035

Wow!

Hey -- we might actually get a discussion going here! I've been waiting for one a little above the calibre of the common language... Of course, that means I have to watch my speling... | posted by offcenterlarry

1 reply - last reply: "I also' I almost wrote "me too" slap... more" ~ ms0035

Irony

... and, irony of ironies, I received a storyteller badge after my post! Is that Eons' way of saying I'm full of crap? | posted by offcenterlarry

1 reply - last reply: "You know, I have no damn idea. I've... more" ~ ms0035

I TRied

Well, Danski I tried to get your group moving but I think now that all of those other 5 members are different facets of your own mind which you were trying to intergrate into the whole. Kinda like ... | posted by ms0035

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My first message

Ok, all, you now consist of 6 members. Half a dozen is pretty more impessive than 5, nez pas??(throwing in a little french here) I'm not so sure about the concept of this group but I am supposing t... | posted by ms0035

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Hello

Well, I see that people are not breaking down the door to join this group! I was attracted by the reference to "the murder of the English Language". My mother, who was a physician, did not earn an ... | posted by Nana64

1 reply - last reply: "Nana, you are a ray of sunshine in... more" ~ Dansk1

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