The Great ‘Forsooth’ Duel
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Why thank you.
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The significance of this being?jdaw1 wrote:I noticed.
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First usage on TPF of that word. Gloating would have been met with scorn, but as it was done quietly, I thought that it should have been acknowledged.LGTrotter wrote:The significance of this being?
There could, perhaps, be a subsidiary competition for those noticers.
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What an enjoyable thread! I love the sight of bomphiologia in the morning (with apologies to John Milius)
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I wish to withdraw my objection to the use of dithyramb in the context Julian used. I have given the matter careful consideration since the seventh of July and think I have been too pedantic.jdaw1 wrote:I agree that the usage went slightly beyond the strict classical meaning. But in the sense of a song to the god of wine, I hoped that it was close enough.LGTrotter wrote:Yes, perhaps I should have checked that no Classical Greek dancers or poetry composed along particular lines had been offered as an intermezzo for slides. I presumed too much.djewesbury wrote:It has been used entirely correctly. An extra point to Julian for your being such a bad sport.LGTrotter wrote:I am pleased to say that I do not have to look up dithyramb to know that it has not been used correctly. I think.
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Very gracious, thank you.LGTrotter wrote:I wish to withdraw my objection to the use of dithyramb in the context Julian used. I have given the matter careful consideration since the seventh of July and think I have been too pedantic.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83913#p83913]Here[/url] DRT wrote:a 99% Waning Gibbous Moon
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jdaw1 wrote:[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83913#p83913]Here[/url] DRT wrote:a 99% Waning Gibbous Moon
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Extra points to DRT.
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He definitely gets paradoxical points for that one.
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New nomination;
Glenn E. wrote:quasquibicentennial.
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No no. Too quotidian. A workaday word.LGTrotter wrote:New nomination;Glenn E. wrote:quasquibicentennial.
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Taradiddle. Isn't it lovely. I shall be using this word a lot.djewesbury wrote:Please add taradiddle to the appropriate thread.
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Two new nominations;
jdaw1 wrote: gracile, or fustilugs?
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Beautiful, if somewhat showily used. More nonchalance please.
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The partial animadversion is noted.djewesbury wrote:if somewhat showily used
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Better.jdaw1 wrote:The partial animadversion is noted.djewesbury wrote:if somewhat showily used
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I was hoping, but dared not presume...DRT wrote:
Unless the Scylla and Charybdis of this thread (yes I do mean you two) have anything to say on the matter.
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I was hoping, but no one spotted mine
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Happy to oblige with a bit of mutual back scratching.DRT wrote: maelstrom.
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Sorry. I was at Covent Garden watching a production of Tristan and Isolde in which the singing was all absolutely faultless, in fact quite sublime, but nobody had been given anything to do but 'stagger about and lean on a chair'. Very disappointing. It made the long slow boring bits, which Wagner was really good at, quite long and slow. But what an ending.
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Daniel, you're back! Saved from Julian, Barnes that is not ours.djewesbury wrote:Sorry. I was at Covent Garden watching a production of Tristan and Isolde in which the singing was all absolutely faultless, in fact quite sublime, but nobody had been given anything to do but 'stagger about and lean on a chair'. Very disappointing. It made the long slow boring bits, which Wagner was really good at, quite long and slow. But what an ending.
I think you should post this here; http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.p ... t=Concerts which I discovered quite by chance when trying to see if Derek could add 'odious' to his list on this thread. Alas no, three times in total, once by myself and the other was in reference to Mr Paul Gadd. Quite.