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Silver
- Shiny Pidgeot King
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- Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
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"These things are selling like nosehair!" -Jelly Jiggler
"Surprisingly, that means they're selling well!" -Don Patch
"Surprisingly, that means they're selling well!" -Don Patch
"Irregardless" and "Over exaggerated" are NEVER CORRECT EVER because they are redundant
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
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King of Katamari
- Blaziken
- Posts: 282
- Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:07 pm
- Location: Kicking the Cheat into a wall. Repeatedly.
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Silver
- Shiny Pidgeot King
- Posts: 18079
- Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:25 pm
- Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
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"...But back to my complaining. One guy's a bowl of ice cream, the other guy's head is a fish cake or something - I mean, THESE are the bad guys the writers dreamed up?" -Narrator (Bobobo)
"Irregardless" and "Over exaggerated" are NEVER CORRECT EVER because they are redundant
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
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Kaida
- Gym Leader
- Posts: 2646
- Joined: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:25 pm
- Location: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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"But he can't die, he's still got two more series to live through, not to mention the rest of the first!" - Me while watching Barda's near-death scene in Deltora Quest
Redback, Funnel-Web, Blue-ringed octopus
Taipan, Tigersnake and a Box jellyfish
Stonefish and the poison thing that lives in a shell
That spikes you when you pick it up
Taipan, Tigersnake and a Box jellyfish
Stonefish and the poison thing that lives in a shell
That spikes you when you pick it up
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PoikSpirit
- Gym Leader
- Posts: 4887
- Joined: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:00 pm
- Location: Taking a vacation in the state of confusion.
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"'It's like magic and TV had a party!'" - my sister, quoting... someone.
Hmm... This signature just got really short...
Blastitar♂ (Water) Attacks: Bite, Water Gun, Crunch, Rock Slide (Wins 15, Losses 0) Torrent&Shed Skin
Sandiyama♂ (Ground, Fighting) Tackle, Vital Throw, Swift, Arm Thrust (Wins 8, Losses 0) Guts&Sand Veil
Swalectrode (Electric, Poison) Attacks: Yawn, Tackle, Sludge, Screech (Wins 5, Losses 0) Exp:30 Static&Liquid Ooze Status: Lost T.T
Blastitar♂ (Water) Attacks: Bite, Water Gun, Crunch, Rock Slide (Wins 15, Losses 0) Torrent&Shed Skin
Sandiyama♂ (Ground, Fighting) Tackle, Vital Throw, Swift, Arm Thrust (Wins 8, Losses 0) Guts&Sand Veil
Swalectrode (Electric, Poison) Attacks: Yawn, Tackle, Sludge, Screech (Wins 5, Losses 0) Exp:30 Static&Liquid Ooze Status: Lost T.T
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Stevenson
- Shiny Wobbuffet Prince
- Posts: 4434
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:13 pm
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You win the internet, Josiah.Josiah wrote:"The moment you walked in here I thought 'there's a guy that could use a previously owned coffin'." (Stan, Monkey Island 2)
"Oh, yeah, sure. Walk to the sun."
-Guybrush Threepwood, Monkey Island....I'm gonna say 1, but I'm not sure.
Stevenson's Vocabulary Word of the Week:
Foment: (verb) To excite or arouse, i.e. 2014's Week of Randomness hopes to foment some activity on the forums.
Stevenson's Latin Phrase of the Week:
Brutum Fulmen: (senseless thunderbolt) This phrase, coined by Pliny the elder, is used to refer to an empty threat.
Foment: (verb) To excite or arouse, i.e. 2014's Week of Randomness hopes to foment some activity on the forums.
Stevenson's Latin Phrase of the Week:
Brutum Fulmen: (senseless thunderbolt) This phrase, coined by Pliny the elder, is used to refer to an empty threat.
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Shadowman
- Gym Leader
- Posts: 4063
- Joined: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:10 am
- Location: Scarlet Devil Mansion, Gensokyo
-Samurai Warriors 2 EmpiresKatsuie: They call me Devil Shibata!
Hanzo: I am the devil Hanzo...
Yoshiro: I am known as Shimazu the Devil!
Hanzo: Hmm... We require... a thesaurus...
"OH MY DEAR HOLY SWEET GOD ON EARTH! NO FAIR!!! MRWAAAAA! " -Shauni after typoing a word, correcting it, then typoing the correction
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Silver
- Shiny Pidgeot King
- Posts: 18079
- Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:25 pm
- Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
- Contact:
"He kept giving him flowers... wait, he was an enemy? Really? Well, I'll take your word for it..." -Narrator
"Irregardless" and "Over exaggerated" are NEVER CORRECT EVER because they are redundant
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.
Regardless means "without regard", and adding "ir" on the front actually makes it a double negative; exaggerate means "to overstate" so you're literally saying "over overstate."
Example: I can not exaggerate the importance of this fact enough, regardless of how often people ignore it.