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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Well, something got conflated during the covfefe twatter, it appeared to have been an acronym of a legal piece that got passed, seemingly without any noticeable opposition.
Today 'gerrymandering'. Not looked it up, but phonetically it made me think of the jerrycan, and thought, this word must be something like pestering gerries, whoever the gerries are. While reading the WP article it made me strongly think of how the English have arranged the voting constituencies, with all their polyps, in order to swing a vote in favor of the same old same old. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7664 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Both sides engage in gerrymandering, much to the detriment of the voting public. There are some interesting mathematical algorithms which have been put forward to take the politics out of this process, but of course the politicians don't want to see this as it just might be FAIR. More interested in staying in power than governing.
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Sgt. Joe
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
From a long article in The Atlantic.. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-league-of/309084/
"Madison prevailed and later went on to become America’s principal author of the Bill of Rights as well as its fourth president. Serving as his second vice president was Elbridge Gerry, who as the governor of Massachusetts in 1812 had presided over a redrawing of the state map so blatant in its partisan manipulations that the curiously tailored shape of one Boston-area district resembled a salamander. The term gerrymander has been used ever since to describe the contorting of districts beyond all reason save political gain." |
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Former Member
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Just to add to the silliness of the English language and pronunciation.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. In certain areas of London (Kensington, Fulham, Belgravia and such. You will hear that people DO live in a HICE or HICES, they speak about Pines (Pounds), the used to have their coal delivered in SEX (sacks). Oh I do love the way we can mangle our native tongue.  |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
It's about the English tongue, but in German six is still sex, phonetically ;O)
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Former Member
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I acquired a router. No, not a router (I'd already got a couple of those), a router.
Yep. same spelling, different pronunciation and different meaning. The one you're thinking of derives from route. The one I'm talking about derives from rout. And when I say different pronunciation, that might be true for the UK, but I think there are parts of the US that pronounce them the same, just to confuse things even more! |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
"lawyered-up", and law and behold, Merriam-Websters has it in it's dictionary . The question being, is this Crazy English or is it that some English speakers demonstrating to be crazy ;?
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SekeRob
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Saw these in one article at NBC... folderol and foofaraw, not necessarily English since they are of US creation, albeit foofaraw per Merriam-Websters is spelled fooferaw at NBC, for language consistancy
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2157 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Saw these in one article at NBC... folderol and foofaraw, <snipped> Do you know this song from your childhood:All the ducks are swimming in the water, falderalderiere, falderalderare, All the ducks are swimming in the water, falderalderalderalderalderal ... https://youtu.be/mYEVyGwRyZ0 Or this Dutch version: https://youtu.be/XO5f4N7f3w8 [Edit 1 times, last edit by adriverhoef at Nov 22, 2017 4:24:52 PM] |
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Former Member
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It brings tears to my eyes seing scribe's name, I have not been able to read his "Saying Goodbye - Update"
- I met Alan in Poole, Dorset, England, and I miss him to this day  Titmouse - I wondered how the plural would be titmouses or titmice It was easy. Anything goes. Scribe would have liked that. |
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