OT- Word of the day.

[Alneyan]

If you did want to cheat, who is to prevent you from using a program finding words for you? The computer Version of Scrabble comes with such helps, so you could probably use it in the Online Version (if you have nothing better to do).

Of course, it mostly applies to playing with random people on the net; I guess that we can trust one another on this forum for example.

Slightly less on topic, add ancient Greek to your list Randallw and I think you have all the roots of English words. While they aren't too many actual Greek words that I can think of ("phenomenon" and its plural form "phenomena" would be one, like "psyche" and a few other not so common words), Greek words are commonly used to make compound nouns (such as, say, "biology", the study of life). But it isn't so particular to English alone, and I am digressing even more.

[Iansidious]

New day new word!

Todays Word:

ihram ("ee raam" with long a)

1. white robe worn by Mecca pilgrims: a white cotton robe worn by men when they are pilgrims to Mecca, formed from pieces of cloth wound around the waist and over the shoulder
2. holy state of pilgrim wearing ihram: the state of holiness conferred or symbolized by the wearing of the ihram

Just for David . "David, looks so natty in his new ihram." Also, I love discombobulate. I will have to use sometime.

[ July 15, 2004, 21:31: Message edited by: Iansidious ]

[Intimidator]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by Intimidator:
Why is that AT.

YOu damn europeans are so damn competative. You know why...... (Laughing) Mr. Game Master.

(Seriously, the game was great, everything is going well despite your warp point openers, and the loss of my fleet. I had expected to loose some, but not all, but that is how it works out sometimes.)

Just a bad day for getting bad news. Thats all.

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You forgot to say that you loose ALL 60 of them, and I lost only 7 (with an fleet as large as yours)

So bottom line : I'VE GOT BETTER SHIPS

[Iansidious]

Alneyan, I want to ask you something. I rememered you live in France. I heard of a word(it was someones Last name but it has a meaning also)that mean the "sneaky one" in French. Lellouche. I was wonder about this word because I can't find it in my dictionary. I do belive that is the correct spelling.

[Alneyan]

Indeed, it is either "Lellouche" or "Lelouche" (both spellings are used for Last names as far as I know, with perhahs "Lelouche" being more common). And "Le louche" would mean something along the lines of someone being shady or suspicious, or a behaviour having this characteristic. So if you see someone acting sneakily, you could see it is indeed "louche" (with the French meaning of this word).

I think "louche", when used in English, has a somewhat different meaning though. Or rather, my dictionary gives "of questionable taste and morality" as a definition. But then, I should beware of French adjectives used in English; while "risqué" (or risque without this accent) means "risky" in French, saying that something or someone is risque in English doesn't quite have the same meaning.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It's a new day over here, so: Destructive Distillation: The distillation of organic substances, as wood and coal, in such a way as to decompose them chemically: also called dry distillation.

Des-ue-tude: A condition of disuse.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
Indeed, it is either "Lellouche" or "Lelouche" (both spellings are used for Last names as far as I know, with perhahs "Lelouche" being more common). And "Le louche" would mean something along the lines of someone being shady or suspicious, or a behaviour having this characteristic. So if you see someone acting sneakily, you could see it is indeed "louche" (with the French meaning of this word).

I think "louche", when used in English, has a somewhat different meaning though. Or rather, my dictionary gives "of questionable taste and morality" as a definition. But then, I should beware of French adjectives used in English; while "risqué" (or risque without this accent) means "risky" in French, saying that something or someone is risque in English doesn't quite have the same meaning.

So, if a woman needed to sneak in a quick, hmmmm, "cleaning", it could be called, a "louche douche" (or is French, a "douche louche").