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Forum: Canada

Mar 20th 2014, 8:00 pm

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The truth about winter in Canada.

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I love that the term for this sort of noun-misappropriation is "verbing." So self-referentially ironic as to be positively post-modern.

Forum: Canada

Mar 20th 2014, 3:00 pm

Replies: 544

The truth about winter in Canada.

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Now that's something on which I think Gordon, the Big Engine, would have an opinion. "It isn't wrong, we just don't do it," he said. :p

Gentlemen, as Jings so aptly pointed out, would not use...

Forum: Canada

Mar 19th 2014, 4:22 pm

Replies: 544

The truth about winter in Canada.

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Posted By Oakvillian

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Nah -deci- is a division, deca- is the multiple. A deci-year would be 36 1/2 days. :p

We can blame the Babylonians for all the base-60 stuff. It was they who invented time divisions the way...

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