I knew what it was. Probably because I'm attuned to any words that sound like they might be dirty. I look them up right away.:)

No entry found for asshat.
Did you mean ass hat?

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I've heard of it before, seen it a few times. It does form once in a while at southern edge of Puget Sound where my parents live. It does get a bit misty/freezy at times. I tell you, cold and damp is worse than very cold.

thank u again lumberjim. and this brings me to a further, probably sillier, question:
what does that official result mean? Does that mean 27,932,882,33 know the word in question, or do not know? Or u may be kind enough to supply me with a link. I do need statistics, coz i am now struggling with a paper on western reader response for english translations from chinese poetry.

And if it so happens that u are interested in chinese poetry, please go to the Entertainment Section of our cellar. i just posted a poem by Mao Zedong, the late President of China. Comments and evaluation are welcome.

those would be the "yes" answers. I see that you are well versed in the sarcastis ways. But there is something you do not know....."I am noh leff handed!.... And, I ahavva study my grippa. "

That, and my dog ate the link to those statistics. It was the only link there, too. sorry.

I read that poem this morning, and I like it. I think I liked the literal, choppy translation better, though. It was more metaphoric, and direct. In our poetry, ryhmes are optional, but effective. Imagery is more powerful still.

lumberjim, i suspect u misunderstood me, but i may be wrong. english is not my native tongue, and i sometimes cannot succeed getting my idea across, but i never meant to be sarcastic, though, as luck would have it, the reader may well feel that way. sorry for my poor style.

And, to be honest, i could not understand all the cuts and turns in your message, since it has much slang, in which case, my dictionaries refuse to help.

hope this time i said what i meant.

ah. right. i though you were deadpan asking me for my stats because you knew very well that i made it all up. deadpan means "with no laughter in your face" or "sraight faced" ...meaning to say or do something funny, but with a serious face, just to make it more funny. the slang was a couple of quotes from a scene in the movie "Princess Bride" where two sworsmen parry. more metaphors

Wow! quotes from your movie, swordsmen parrying! Bet you never expected my wild interpretations, eh?

forget it.

languages differ;cultures collide;but peoples understand once within the cellar over coffee, and hoarfrost.

i was trying to cast off my deadpan. hope i made it.

been learning english some 20 years, but just found that true language competence can never be learned, but acquired and lived.

thank u for your timely replies.

In language acquisition, practice makes imperfect.

No native speakers of languages speak them as they are taught, or use "proper" grammatical construction. Practice with native speakers is the best way to learn ... listening to spoken conversation (not specifically recorded to go along with a text book stuff) much better.

When I was learning German we had to listen to taped radio interviews. The announcer would usually speak "textbook" German, but the person being interviewed would speak more or less normally ... there are a lot of dialect differences even in a small country like that ... and the differences in spoken English can be much more dramatic.

that's the way the cookie crumbles here in our country, where english is learned not as a living language, but as rules and grammar that impede rather than facilitate our linguistic competence.

But if you can say "rules and grammar that impede rather than facilitate our linguistic competence", you are a very good student.

Noodles, if you really need statistics, don't rely on LumberJim. ;)

hush, bruce. he's new, and doesn't know that i'm a fraud yet. you are violating the prime directive. let him make his own discoveries.

Although no one has ever seen us together, noodles and I are, in fact, two separate people. It's easily proven with one observation.

noodles is smart. :blunt:

unconscious plagiarism:yum:

"smart"? smartass