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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On August 28 2015 00:51 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: See? Everything will be fine. If he tries to stiff you, tell everyone else to shoot at him. Well that's "the implication", isn't it? That's why no one tries to stiff you there. "The implication". + Show Spoiler + | ||
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whatisthisasheep
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Oshuy
Netherlands529 Posts
On August 28 2015 14:49 whatisthisasheep wrote: Was Gobekli Tepe Plato's Atlantis? I'll ask him, but it sounds a bit remote both in time and space for legends to reach Plato. Minoans still get my vote. | ||
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whatisthisasheep
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On August 30 2015 15:37 whatisthisasheep wrote: How is the Sphinx 3500 years older than the pyramids? It was built before them. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
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im a roc
United States745 Posts
On August 30 2015 16:18 FiWiFaKi wrote: What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"? Your question is invalid because that's a noun? | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On August 30 2015 16:32 im a roc wrote: Your question is invalid because that's a noun? "I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book" "I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book" I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol. | ||
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im a roc
United States745 Posts
On August 30 2015 16:36 FiWiFaKi wrote: "I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book" "I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book" I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol. Yeah, that's not a verb. Synopsis is a noun which has a similar meaning to the word 'summary.' I think 'synopsize' is the derivative verb that you're looking for, but that word feels uppity to me because I don't think I've ever heard another human use it in conversation. I think 'summarize' is your best bet. | ||
Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
On August 30 2015 17:01 im a roc wrote: Yeah, that's not a verb. Synopsis is a noun which has a similar meaning to the word 'summary.' I think 'synopsize' is the derivative verb that you're looking for, but that word feels uppity to me because I don't think I've ever heard another human use it in conversation. I think 'summarize' is your best bet. I've heard synopsize before | ||
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Yoav
United States1874 Posts
The greek sun-opsis (sight/understood together as a very rough literalism) actually makes the point. The word "opsis" is a noun form of horaoh, opsomai, eidon, heoraka/heohraka, heohramai/ohmmai, ohftheyn... which is a shitshow of a verb, even by Greek standards, with multiple origin words smashed clumsily into one "verb" (which really means multiple words that are independent, but some of which get used exclusively for specific tenses, with others filling in the gaps). I've heard people sympathize with Donald Trump before. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On August 30 2015 16:36 FiWiFaKi wrote: "I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book" "I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book" I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol. "I'm doing a synopsis of this book" is the correct use of the word Synopsis. Do a synopsis Doing a synopsis Did a synopsis | ||
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fluidrone
France1478 Posts
Summarizing deals in concepts, to synthesize is to create stuff, by often doing several abnormal things to other natural stuff. We as a society have set up (and help set up) the industrial creation and distribution of a lot of "fluids" .. if you regularly get insulin for instance (because you find yourself in lifelong need because of being born like that), chances are it is synthetic insulin, not donated. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
But I'll just take it as not existing. Definitely agree that synopsis is a noun now, and synopsize is the verb form... So following the rules, it appears that synopsizing would be the correct form, and everything suggests it should exist, it's just likely that the word is used infrequently enough that it's not added in dictionaries considering it's just a different tense. | ||
zatic
Zurich15366 Posts
On August 30 2015 15:37 whatisthisasheep wrote: How is the Sphinx 4500 years older than the pyramids? Don't that mean the Egyptians didnt even build it? It's not. It's more like 4500 years older than the iPhone. Which makes it about the same age as the pyramids. | ||
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Oshuy
Netherlands529 Posts
On August 31 2015 15:33 zatic wrote: It's not. It's more like 4500 years older than the iPhone. Which makes it about the same age as the pyramids. Most of the Sphinx is a lot older than that. After all, it is just a shallow modification of an existing limestone formation, not a structure built from scratch by human hands. The limestone itself sedimented from a retreating sea 50 million years ago. Chances are erosion and quarrying formed something that looked already like a lion to locals before sculptors went to work on it 4500 years ago. The sphinx was already there, hiding and sleeping within the stone, waiting for humans to recognize him and bring him out. | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
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fluidrone
France1478 Posts
On August 31 2015 18:06 xM(Z wrote: well that's one way to shit on decades of human labor Human labor hype! | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
#labormatters | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
noinheritanceallowed | ||
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