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Old 03-12-2010, 09:19 AM
ThePylon ThePylon is offline
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"New" "word" - Temporarely

Sign on the bathroom here at work:

"Temporarely closed". For maintenance, apparantly.

But what a word. They rarely close it, and it will be back open soon. IT's perfect, and should be part of the language.

Thus, I would like this to act as my official "coining claim" (as I assume the originator did it inadvertently...)
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:27 AM
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But what about the "tempo" part? Is it rarely to a beat?
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Old 03-12-2010, 10:35 AM
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4 out of 5 Jesuses agree!
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I dance temporarely.
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Old 03-12-2010, 10:43 AM
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I second the motion. Good word. It's like "five nines" without all the math overhead.
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Old 03-12-2010, 11:09 AM
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It's not in my word-coining thread, so it doesn't actually exist.
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Old 03-12-2010, 11:18 AM
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Seems perfectly cromulent to me.
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Old 03-12-2010, 06:20 PM
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Good, you can put it next to the sign down the street from me in the car dealership that says "bank repose".
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Old 03-12-2010, 07:26 PM
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In my office, we're asked to keep the "toliet" area clean.
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Old 03-12-2010, 10:45 PM
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At my condo, we're periodically notified that sweeping of the underground garage will take place on such-and-such a day, and because of the dust, we might wish to move our cars "before hand."
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