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 CH> Aside. Isn't it weird how we're supposed to cultivate a good
 CH> vocabulary but if you use big words in your speech or
 CH> writing, you're considered stuffy/verbose/overly formal?
 CH> (Generic "you")

 My wife often says I have an excess of sylabolicity. Sometimes I
 cross her up by going monosylabaic.

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 CH>> Now don't you DARE ask me what gravity is.  Oh I'd just have to
 CH>> say, it's a force that keeps us from spinning off the planet
 CH>> Earth.

 RN>> It's the centrifugal force that would propel you off.  (-:

 CH>  hehe but then I'd have you describe in plain English:
 CH>  centrifugal force. :)

 That's when the planet keeps going around, and you keep going
 straight.

 Or, when the planet falls away from under you.

 Which is pretty much how an orbit works. You fall to earth just
 as you pass the edge of the earth. So you fall toward another
 edge of the earth, which you pass just as you would have hit it.

 CH> I take it you play scrabble? Would you like to join a few
 CH> very good games with some very good players on a couple
 CH> very good bbs's you can telnet to? I'll email the addresses
 CH> to you if you like. (I'm not sure we're allowed to
 CH> advertise a bbs in Fidoechos.)

 A: Advise, not advertise.

 B: This is a friendly chat echo. You are just chatting in a
 friendly fashion, and advising.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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