Can you keep it going asking ONLY QUESTIONS?

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  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,460 Member
    srazamora wrote: »
    paperpudding wrote: »
    Has anyone else read The Dictionary of Lost Words?

    Did you just make that up, @paperpudding ? 🤔

    Make it up??? :o:o

    wasnt it a best seller only a couple of years ago??

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Lost_Words
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 19,984 Member
    frankwbrown wrote: »
    Bald faced hornets as opposed to bearded hornets? 😂
    Isn't any hornet, bald or not, something to stay away from?
    Do you think I named them? 😅
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,992 Member
    You mean like... Fred, Ben, Alphonse, Jeremiah? (Aren't I assuming they're all male?)
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,181 Member
    Aren't they more likely to be female hornets?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,636 Member
    Why would they be more likely to be female?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,181 Member
    Aren't male hornets rare and more docile according to Wikipedia?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,989 Member
    Since all biting mosquitoes are female, why not all stinging hornets?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,636 Member
    What do the male mosquitoes do with all their time then??
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,460 Member
    Do they have any time after their heads are bitten off?

    Or is that praying mantises?
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 19,984 Member
    edited August 2024
    What is wrong with this site?
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 19,984 Member
    Aren't male hornets (bees, wasps, etc.) called drones? While I haven't read anything about male hornets being "rare", didn't I just read this?
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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,989 Member
    cmsienk wrote: »
    What is wrong with this site?

    Do you want the long list of "wrongs" listed alphabetically, numerically, or logically?
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 19,984 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    cmsienk wrote: »
    What is wrong with this site?

    Do you want the long list of "wrongs" listed alphabetically, numerically, or logically?
    Why don't you surprise me? (Wasn't that prompted by the double posting of my last question?)
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,181 Member
    What double posting!?:D
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,992 Member
    @cmsienk, are you seeing double? 😂
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,636 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    cmsienk wrote: »
    What is wrong with this site?

    Do you want the long list of "wrongs" listed alphabetically, numerically, or logically?

    How do you list something logically, @nossmf ?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,989 Member
    Isn't it easier to describe logically as the opposite of illogically?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,181 Member
    Doesn't that sound logical?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,636 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    Isn't it easier to describe logically as the opposite of illogically?

    What if all definitions in the dictionary were like that?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,989 Member
    In this day of Google, who even references a dictionary anymore?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,636 Member
    How do you think m they came up with the name Google?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,992 Member
    Didn't a couple math nerds -- familiar with what "a googol" is -- think that would make a great name for their search engine? However, aren't the number of search results usually shy of a googol?

    And speaking of how to order a list of things, does anyone have (or want) a copy of this dictionary?
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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,989 Member
    Dude, where can I get one? Shall I ask Googol Google?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,460 Member
    What is a collocate??
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,992 Member
    Wouldn't that be where certain words are found in close proximity to one another in text?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,460 Member

    how have I managed to live 6 decades without knowing that?? :D
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,992 Member
    Or, maybe you forgot you knew it?
    Don't less frequently used words eventually get relegated to the mental equivalent of an offsite storage locker? 😂
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,989 Member
    Why do you think I continue to use exotic language in my posts? Isn't it so I don't forget the words and they remain mentally available on those occasions where they are most apropos?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,181 Member
    Isn't it best to use common words except under exigent circumstances?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,460 Member
    is it also best to be succinct and to the point without waffling on and using uneccesary wordage which just clogs the sentence and without diverting into irelevant tangents such as what I had for breakfast, which by the way was yoghurt and fruit,varies depending on what is in season and available in my area for a reasonable cost, I do have to watch my budget after all and groceries are not getting any cheaper, as you are no doubt aware as this surely affects you too and that breakfast is what I often have on weekends, not so much on workdays and what was the topic again?

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