THE mayor of NYC used a word to describe the strinking transit workers...uncontionable??  what does it mean?
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unconscionable\n\nIt means, "without a conscience" or a sense of what's right and what's wrong.
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It generally means that the person is overcontrolling about something, with severe ramifications if they are not happy with it. If you have ever watched Seinfeld and seen the Soup nazi episode you will know what I'm talking about.
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Ah, Romeo and Juliet! Basically, "biting one's thumb" was a mortal insult, kind of like flipping someone off (but worse). Sampson is biting his thumb in order to insult the Montagues who are walking past. The "which is a disgrace to them if they bear it" means "If they don't come and fight, they're chicken, and we can hold it over their heads." Of course, an utterly chaotic street brawl erupts after this.
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You are mixing with some strange people.  In the first sentence the word dinge does not make any sense and I would suggest this rendering: "with such dignity as only our crowd might find compatible." I imagine that she behaved in a way which you readily understood and accepted, but which others might not have understood.\n\n"Like flaa just flung" doesn't mean anything to me.  I would suggest: "like flowers just flung", as this is something colourful.  It's as though someone picked some flowers and threw them down while they were still fresh.
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"You are the white-est black girl I know"\n\nWTF does that mean?  Does that mean that she expected me to speak "ebonics"?  Does the mean she expected me to not be up on current events?  \n\nI guess stereotypes are VERY real. (sigh)
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I thought it meant someone had something JAMMED up their...\nidk tho. lol\n☺
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YES.\n\nCORNERING NOT THAT PERSON..\n\nIT MEANS CORNERING HIS IDEAS, VIEWS ETC..
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Despite your bad spelling, the answer's quite simple:\n\nThey couldn't find enough "Crack Hos" in New York who could stay on their feet long enough......
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Ok, this isn't a joke, but it happened on my schoolbus.\n\nWe had a Spanish bus driver, and we were trying to go somewhere.  A train began to pass in front of our bus.  After roughly five minutes of watching the never-ending train, our bus driver has had enough.\n\nThe bus driver decides to make an illegal U-turn.  My friend says, "Oh look, we're turning around".  I immedeately say, "This U-turn is about as legal as our bus driver".\n\nHad to be there.  Hard earned 2 points.\n\nAnd what's the person below me talking about?  \n\nThey're probably just mad because they're illegal, too.\n\nDang I modified this like three times.\n\nI feel like such an ass.\n\nFour times.\n\nOur jokes suck.
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in·con·ven·ience   - The state or quality of being inconvenient. \nSomething inconvenient. \n\ntr.v. in·con·ven·ienced, in·con·ven·ienc·ing, IN.CON.VEN.IENCES.\nTo cause inconvenience to; trouble: \nThe snow inconvenienced the holiday travelers.
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&*&*&*\n\n"An unspeakable word is inexpressibly bad; it has no synonym, no substitute. "\n\nIt does not say…one cannot substitute a phrase for the word in question.\nIt looks to me like that is exactly what it is saying: "it has no…substitute"\n\n \n\nThen you don't know what apposition means.\n\n\n"courageous" is a quality of a thing, and it is an adjective; "strong" is a quality of a thing, and it is an adjective\nMaybe we don't speak the same language.  Where I come from courage is a quality;\n\n \n\nWrong.  Courage is the name of a quality, and like all names, it is a noun.  To be a quality, it must be able to qualify something.  Courage is a noun, the abstract name of a quality in the phrase "courageous person."  If we remove the substance (i.e., person) and wish merely to name the quality (i.e., courageous) AS IF such quality existed independently of the person, we give it the name courage.\n\n \n\nWhere I come from, qualities have no independent existence apart from the things that they qualify.  There is no such thing as courage except as an abstraction, formed from watching and thinking about real, existing “courageous persons.”  Your position is the same as saying “Tallness is a quality; we only use the word tall to describe people and things that actually have that quality.”  According to this notion, tall is not a quality, but simply a grammatical adjective; tallness is the real quality -- right?  If tallness were a quality, it would have to be a quality OF something.  To be a quality OF something, we must be able to cast it in the form of the sentence "He, she, or it is _____."  Can we say "He is tallness"?  No?  Then, ipso facto, tallness is not a quality.\n\n \n\nRegarding the word at issue, we can abstract the quality from the thing qualified in the phrase “impactful lecture” to form the abstract noun impactfulness (horrid, I know).   But impactfulness is not a thing that exists independently until it decides to attach itself to a lecture; it either qualifies the lecture or it does not.  If it does, then it is called an “impactful lecture”, and impactful would be a quality of the lecture. \n\n \n\nAs for supposedly dodging your question on phonemes and meaning, you are asking a question about quantum physics before you can do arithmetic.  First learn the difference between nouns and adjectives – between SUBSTANCE and QUALITIES –then ask questions about phonemes and meaning.
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WEll it's like this like every thing you like,like they keep like taking it away like,like they don't want you to  like,like it like they are like the boss like that f'n scares like me like I can't f'n handle like them. \n\nYou must mean like this.
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Well, it's not very nice, it is a very crude and impolite term for a homosexual. (mind you I don't agree with that life style) it's just me, but the saying is disgusting. :D\n\nOkay I am chuckling and turning red, but it's still disgusting :S
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In meiner Stadt gibt es nicht viele Umweltprobleme, weil es eine sehr kleine Stadt ist. Meiner Meinung nach ist das einzige Problem meiner Stadt, dass der öffentliche Nahverkehr nicht gut ist, weshalb die Menschen die ganze Zeit Autos benutzen, um von einem Ort zum anderen zu gelangen. Wenn wir viele Busse hätten, die pünktlich wären, könnten die Leute sie benutzen. Das würde weniger (Umwelt-)Verschmutzung verursachen.\n\nIch mag es hier zu leben, weil es eine Mischung zwischen dem Stadt- und dem Landleben ist.\n\nI am a German native speaker who spent one year in the USA...Don´t translate word for word, try to understand the meaning of the sentence. That will help you everytime. Then you can still look the right German expression up in a dictionary.\nI hope I could help you\n\nP.S.: Check out this online dictionary, it helps me a lot in my German English AP class... http://dict.leo.org/
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I think the word is "waning", Sir.\n\nPolitical Correctness is getting to be a pain, though.\n\nHave a nice day.
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rab·ble [ rább'l ] (plural rab·bles) \n\n\nnoun  \n \nDefinitions: \n  \n1. unruly crowd: a noisy and unruly crowd of people\n\n \n2. offensive term: an offensive term that deliberately insults people lacking in wealth and status ( insult ) ( takes a singular or plural verb ) \n\n \n3. offensive term: an offensive term that deliberately insults the abilities or significance of a group of people ( insult ) \n\n \n[14th century. Origin ?]
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I was deployed to Louisiana with the National Guard for two months after Hurricane Katrina. I had the distinct displeasure of meeting Mayor Nagin on a couple of ocassions. The man is an incompetent, racist boob.\n\nTrue leaders find solutions for their people NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE. All Mayor Nagin did was whine and complain. He had no real plan of action to help his people.\n\nHe deserves neither the office nor the title of Mayor.