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MeechMunchie 11-27-2010 10:09 AM
I don't have anything against colloquialisms, it's just saying them wrong in a way that completely reverses the meaning while continuing to use them in the same context that I don't like.

OANST 11-27-2010 10:16 AM
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I don't have anything against colloquialisms, it's just saying them wrong in a way that completely reverses the meaning while continuing to use them in the same context that I don't like.
Christ, we haven't been talking about your thing for ages.

MeechMunchie 11-27-2010 10:22 AM
I don't like to cause an argument and then completely fail to join in.

Nate 11-27-2010 03:34 PM
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Actually, I have. I've heard "Hold your position" used to mean "stay put", and "hold down the position" used to mean "defend the position". Either way, it doesn't matter, though. That's not the point. I'm not arguing that it doesn't work as a metaphor, or that one is more widely accepted as a metaphor. I'm saying that the British usage of it without the "down" makes no more literal sense than the American usage with the word "down". And anyone saying different is either lying to themselves because of some strange insistence that their colloquialisms are better than our colloquialisms, or lying because they don't want this video that they like to be wrong, or they are just plain stupid.
My point was simply that the word 'hold' has one more definition than you are aware of and thus 'hold the position' does make literal sense whilst 'hold down' does not.

Mr. Bungle 11-28-2010 09:29 AM
Lucid

Phylum 11-28-2010 11:13 PM
Tranquill. Dusk.

enchilado 11-29-2010 01:40 AM
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'hold the position' does make literal sense whilst 'hold down' does not.
It does if the position is one where you're on top.

MeechMunchie 11-29-2010 03:49 AM
'Hold' can also mean 'keep'. Like 'placeholder' or 'I hold the rights to this film'. I don't really see the confusion here.

Melanoma & Punctual.

OANST 11-29-2010 06:13 AM
At what point did the word hold come to mean "defend", though? Again, I'm not debating that the word is used in those ways. I'm saying that it isn't the literal translation, and if it isn't the literal translation then it all comes down to you and I knowing what it means because of popular usage, which is the same with "holding down the fort".

Phylum 11-29-2010 03:48 PM
Hold the fort = keep the fort = do not lose the fort = defend the fort.

MA 11-29-2010 04:32 PM
i fucking shit on the fort.

how do you lot like that? huh? do you like me shitting all over your debate? yeah?

Phylum 11-29-2010 04:37 PM
You sure told us.

ziggy 11-29-2010 10:27 PM
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i fucking shit on the fort.

how do you lot like that? huh? do you like me shitting all over your debate? yeah?
To be honest this is really the most interesting thing in this thread right now.

Phylum 11-29-2010 10:28 PM
I'm offended by that.

ziggy 11-29-2010 10:46 PM
Well man, I contributed a little to this little corner of the forum, but it's pretty much like reading the dictionary for fun.

MeechMunchie 01-06-2011 11:27 PM
Absurd & Naturalist.

Phylum 01-07-2011 12:05 AM
Chthonic.

MarsMudoken 01-07-2011 05:06 PM
Philistine, and inordinate.

Mr. Bungle 01-07-2011 05:13 PM
Incarnate.

Mac Sirloin 01-07-2011 09:47 PM
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Well man, I contributed a little to this little corner of the forum, but it's pretty much like reading the dictionary for fun.
When I was ten some neighborhood girl and other friends taunted me by saying that. I punched her in her face.

Elmatto753 01-08-2011 12:55 AM
That's better than punching her in someone else's face.

Dynamithix 01-08-2011 01:02 AM
True.

ziggy 01-08-2011 08:43 AM
Punch me in tha FACE

MA 01-08-2011 08:58 AM
DO IT, KASTERE

FUCKING DO ITDLJGNDSIGKHDGSD

ziggy 01-08-2011 09:59 AM
Hey I was backing you up, what gives?

MarsMudoken 01-08-2011 10:37 PM
Back on topic, propinquity.

STM 01-11-2011 08:25 AM
Quantity and Brimstone...recently fucktard seems to pass my lips a lot as well.

LDG519 01-12-2011 11:37 PM
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis It's a real word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumon...olcanoconiosis

Nate 01-13-2011 01:04 AM
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis It's a real word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumon...olcanoconiosis
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The 45-letter word was coined to serve as the longest English word
Meh.

Elmatto753 01-13-2011 08:02 AM
That was made a heck of a long time ago. I'm surprised no-one's come up with a longer one since then. We need a word for when something is so bad it's good.


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