King of Soup:
That was brilliant. I give much applausage.
Upon further reflection, I’ve decided that all these stupid words get on my nerves. Doctors are the worst offenders. Hey, you POMPOUS FUCKING ASSHOLES, knock it off! Look at the word tibia- it’s a perfect example. They could just say “lower leg bone”. And it’s not a ‘scalpel’, douchebag, it’s a KNIFE. If you need to be more specific, call it a very sharp knife. Just say what you mean!
You, Snowboarder Bo, are my hero. 
As others have said, it’s absolutely brilliant of you. And in such a short time! I struggle to write even short wittty poetry. You belong up there with the best and brightest. Ogden Nash comes to mind as your possible equal.
No joke.
And you’ll notice that your contribution neighbors my own first appearance on this thread, which also drew a bit of praise. It’s an honor being in the same thread, nay, on the same board as you.
True Blue Jack
Reminds me of a clown show I saw as a kid. The clown hold up a sign that says “Applause.”
He tugs on it and it opens up, reverse-FOLD-IN style, to say:
APPLE SAUSE!
TBJ
Tongulate my phalloprong, Snowboarder Bo.
And so are “”"". Or a space. But when you use them, we can still quote your cite.
Ponder, unlikely it may be however winning the battle vs ignorance is also unlikely, but we still try.
ctrl-c is copy
ctrl-v is paste
or does your souped up TRS-80 not do those things?
You know whats really lame, people who make up new music when there is already plenty of music out there. They should just listen to and support the music thats already in the music dictionary…or approved by the radio stations and record labels.
Much as I agree with your main point, I have to disagree here. The whole point of using hte word “signage” is to indicate that it’s the entire system of placement, wording of signs, engineering and so on.
Stating “…consistently poor signs” is still putting the onus on the signs themselves. When really what the sentence is trying to convey, and does much more clearly with signage instead of signs, is that more than just the signs are involved.
It is the traffic department who decides where they are placed. It is what the signs say, and the dum-dums who decide what to put on them. The whole system is described by using “signage” as fakey/trendy as it is. It is not described very well by merely saying “signs”.
You jumped,
I looked the word up, as spelled, at Dictionary.com and got this result,[
](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=symptomotology)it’s right there, of course you have to read the big words to find it, and I’m suspecting that’s your problem, reading big words.
ABC news merely misspelled the word, you declared its nonexistence.
AFAICT no one has corrected the error of abcnews.com, it’s all you baby!
When your OP was shown to be wrong, you abandoned it and changed your argument.
Maybe you need to look-up “backpedal” too?
Yes, people (i.e. patients) often list symptoms that are not part of the symptomatology of a given disease.
How would you know what symptoms ARE germane, if you never studied symptomatology?
CMC fnord!
PS, maybe you snowboarders could stop making up and changing the definitions of words,
[del]physician[/del] doctor heal [del]thy[/del] your self.
Actually, you were the one who corrected abcnews.com’s misspelling.
Without your post here I would not have known it was an actual word that the doctor was using. No, I didn’t read all the other possibly related words. They were not the word I was looking for; how could I know that a word I never heard before was misspelled?
I have no problem with taking a new stance based on new information. Better than maintaining the old stance when it is clearly based on inaccurate information.
There was no question about people (or even me) giving lots of symptoms, but rather about a doctor describing symptoms which were not related to the complaints of a patient. Perhaps if you read a bit more you would have understood that.
More likely, tho, you are merely overly excited at the prospect of being able to play “gotcha” while, as your profile so eloquently states, hiding in your room.
Please, for the sake of all of us without severe socialization problems, stay there.
Huh? But if I DO those things, then YOUR post is NOT QUOTE blocked, and* it’s supposed to be*, you maroon. Sure, I can hit the “reply” button which very nicely puts you post in QUOTE blocks- and then go back to your post, and then cut&paste your cite into your post. But why make me go through two steps just because *you *want to be 'special" :rolleyes: and not do things the way everyone else here does them?
LOL
Seeing as how the one response to your conundrum was from a Mod who does the same thing I do, I don’t think that
does things the way you think they do.
Oh my god, **True Blue Jack **, you got someone to look up hoax in the dictionary! (Albeit a conveniently close at hand dictionary…) My hat is so very far off to you. I cannot contain my gleeage.
Mmmmmm… Apple-sausage…
Yeah, and I’ll admit that I looked up “hoax” in the dictionary. I realized after a second that it was probably a joke (which I didn’t find all that funny, but YMMV), but the dictionary was within arm’s reach, and I couldn’t help myself.
On other matters, as far as I can tell, the word ‘signage’ seems apt for saying, for example, that a workplace was cited by OSHA for improper signage, especially if the problems included a lack of signs where signs were required. It would be less clear to say that the problem was with the ‘signs’ if some of the problems involved signs that didn’t exist.
Likewise, I can see a need for doctors to differentiate between the symptomatology of a disease and the collection of symptoms a patient might have. Given that doctors deal with life or death cases decided on such matters, I’ll leave them to decide whether there is a useful distinction to make between the shades of meaning that the layman would cover with one word.
No, I was really correcting your declaration that it wasn’t a word at all.
You assumed the spelling was correct, I didn’t.
Do you always assume a word you don’t know must be made-up?
If you had read the other words, you would have come to the same conclusion I did.
Same way I did, I clicked on the word with the closest spelling, found out what it meant, and another piece of useless “Jeopardy” knowledge was added to my brain!
Rigghht, pit the doc for using a made-up word, find out it’s a real word, pit him for using big words…is that a bicycle I hear?
Perhaps if you read a bit more you would have understood this,
see fetus is pretending to be a patient with 50 symptoms, giving an example of the difference between symptoms and a symptom complex.
CMC fnord!
Let me see your war face!
You’ve got a war face? Aaaaaaaagh! That’s a war face.
Now let me see your war face!
Bullshit! You didn’t convince me!
Let me see your real war face!
You didn’t scare me! Work on it!
OSHA won’t cite your for “improper signage” they will cite you for “a lack of safety notifications”. Or “no safety notices”. But they won’t just issue a blank citation for “workplace safety violations” with no list of what was actually wrong. They will make the list. And in the list will be “lack of safety signs” and “lack of emergency exit signs” and other things that just use the word “signs”. After all, what you’re talking about, is the lack of signs. Why not just say so and be clear with one statement? If you say “improper signage” you’re just going to have to explain what was improper, and how.
OR
Likewise, I can see a need for doctors to differentiate between the symptoms of a disease and the collection of symptoms a patient might have.
My sentence says the same thing as yours, but it doesn’t include the ridiculous $.50 cent word.
And why even bother saying “collection of symptoms”? How is that different than saying “symptoms”? If I have a pocketful of nickels, I don’t have a collection of nickels. I just have nickels. People don’t have a collection of children, they just have children. Do you have a collection of days in your week, or a collection of things to do? Do you buy a collection of potato chips? :dubious:
crowmanyclouds, I’d tell you to go to your room for being an obnoxious idiot, but I see that you are already there.
Have fun with your game of “gotcha”.
bye now
I am loath to point this out, but “$.50 cent” is redundant.
“it doesn’t include the ridiculous 50-cent word” OR “it doesn’t include the ridiculous $.50 word” say the same thing as yours, but don’t include the ridiculous redundancy you seem to loathe.