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272944	2004-09-16 10:16:00	In a UK magazine recently, I read of a competition for good new words. The winner was one for predicting the sex of an unborn child - sprognosis. Neat - any others ? Cheers T	TonyF (246)
272945	2004-09-16 11:03:00	A few of my favourites : DISCONFECT v. To sterilise the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, somehow assuming this will 'remove' all the germs. TELECRASTINATION n. The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away. FRUST n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug. ELBONICS n. The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater. Stolen from here (across.co.nz) :D	andrew93 (249)
272946	2004-09-16 11:07:00	Another one I vaguely recall from years past - a word formed from two others - insinuendo. T	TonyF (246)
272947	2004-09-16 11:52:00	How you feel after a meal of fish and chips cooked in fat. Word: Enfatuated Pronunciation: 'n - fat - you - ate - it :D	exLL (515)
272948	2004-09-16 22:00:00	This is brilliant - I've been looking for an excuse to launch this new word that a couple of mates and I came up with a couple of years ago... OPTIVATE Extremely disappointing to discover recently that it's actually the name of some obscure pre-natal vitamin... but we'll claim to have had it first! As for the meaning - that hasn't been finalised, but that shouldn't prevent its frequent use in everyday conversation... "Optivate it!" "He's a real optivator" "It just optivated itself!" "Oh crap - I'm optivating..." "Warning: Optivation Imminent" Etc, etc... Maybe they could build that last one into Doom3 ?:| Spartacus	Spartacus (3313)
272949	2004-09-16 22:17:00	> Etc, etc... Maybe they could build that last one > into Doom3 ?:| > > Spartacus I wondered if this might evolve into a serious discussion on the evolution of language. Ie: in my life time "gay" and "hero" were once things for the normal to aspire to, now they are not. But. D.	drb1 (4492)
272950	2004-09-17 00:43:00	> I wondered if this might evolve into a serious discussion on the > evolution of language. Sorry - lightheartedness (now there's a word ;-) ) has been banished!! Therefore, on a serious note, "AXIS OF EVIL" is now an official dictionary term (and in fact a misnomer, since an axis can't have more than two endpoints, or any points not in a straight line, blah, blah, blah)	Spartacus (3313)
272951	2004-09-17 00:56:00	> Therefore, on a serious note, "AXIS OF EVIL" is now > an official dictionary term (and in fact a misnomer, > since an axis can't have more than two endpoints, or > any points not in a straight line, blah, blah, blah) True, But: you know what I Ment. Literally an "Axis" can not as you say, but Axis has been used in this context before. As in "Axis Powers" The union between: Japan, Italy, Germany, and the conspiritors Spain, and Finland.	drb1 (4492)
272952	2004-09-17 01:58:00	> you know what I Ment. Yeah, I did :-) > Literally an "Axis" can not as you say, but Axis has > been used in this context before. > > As in "Axis Powers" The union between: Japan, Italy, > Germany, and the conspiritors Spain, and Finland. Also True - and that's where 'Axis of Evil' originated, but the term 'Axis Powers' was itself based on the traditional meaning of 'axis'. Before the war, when Germany and Italy got into bed together, Mussolini described a "Rome-Berlin axis" that the rest of Europe would revolve around... Japan in fact ruined the definition by joining them as a third party, and the rest is history ;-)	Spartacus (3313)
272953	2004-09-17 02:23:00	> > As in "Axis Powers" The union between: Japan, > Italy, > > Germany, and the conspiritors Spain, and Finland . > > Also True - and that's where 'Axis of Evil' > originated, but the term 'Axis Powers' was itself > based on the traditional meaning of 'axis' . Before > the war, when Germany and Italy got into bed > together, Mussolini described a "Rome-Berlin axis" > that the rest of Europe would revolve around . . . Japan > in fact ruined the definition by joining them as a > third party, and the rest is history ;-) Yes, All true, Spain only supplied Troops clandestienly for the Russian front, 2 Divisons from memory, and Finland allthough at war with Russia never "offically" joined the "Axis" powers . A lot of "Nazi and Waffen SS" escaped to through Finland stopping/coming to fight the Russians before the peace between those two nations . D .	drb1 (4492)
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