[OT] straying from the facts - was Re: [plug] Book of "facts" re Linux

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:49, Steve Boak wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2004 08:36 am, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Seriously, if I can elide the quotidian parsiflage, abnegating recourse
> > to scatologous disquisition, so can you!

> Been reading the thumbing through the thesaurus, digesting the
> dictionary, have you Leon?

Leon's always spoken like that. :-)

> I admit I had to look some of these up...
>
> elide: Phonetics. suppress or omit in pronunciation. ????
>
> quotidian: Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of *malaria*.
>
> parsiflage: ???
> Did you mean persiflage? : *Frivolous* or bantering talk
>
> abnegating: deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging
> in some *pleasure*;
>
> scatologous: ??? even google has never heard of this one, but I can guess
> what you meant :)

Use a dictionary:

 scatological
     adj : dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions;
           "scatological literature"

> disquisition: a *long* and detailed explanation of a particular subject
>
> So if I can paraphrase:
>
> "Seriously, if I can suppress the daily frivolous talk, denying the
> pleasures of resorting to crap in a long and detailed way, so can you!"
>
> (now waits for someone to pick apart my post too)

Why wait?

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