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X3 Skier said:
Jesuit or Franciscan High School?
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19+ years of public schooling. I'll let someone else make the joke about 6th grade being the best 3 years of my life.

Nauga,
who had to take his shoes off to make this post
 
nauga said:
19+ years of public schooling. I'll let someone else make the joke about 6th grade being the best 3 years of my life.

Nauga,
who had to take his shoes off to make this post
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Good thing it wasn't more than 21 years.
 
hindsight2020 said:
Oh that has been long time debunked as an irrelevant metric with which to gauge aggregate demand. Too many externalities to list, but the large ones are low rent-ROI for the holders of ever inflating metropolitan CBD-centric airport real estate forcing an artificial supply constriction, and rampant non-aviation storage use being cheaper at the airport than dedicated-use facilities meant for the latter.
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I once had a guy come into my office who spoke exactly like this. I think he was trying to engage us in a partnership. I let him talk for 10 minutes. I stopped him and told him he had been talking for 10 minutes and I had no idea what he was trying to communicate. I then asked him to leave. I never did figure out what it was he was looking for.
 
hindsight2020 said:
Yeah buddy. Mercedarian gradeschool, then Franciscan high school up in hezee. Good times /s.
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I appreciated your note about agnosticism, similar experience here. Odd the effect is (and we'll leave it at that!). I appreciated my education though, both damaging and enlightening at the same time. Sort of dead-poets-society esq my school was


Lndwarrior said:
I then asked him to leave
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haha yeah, people must be admonished for speaking eloquently. Ah, big words - leave!


Most of you surely (insert Leslie Nielsen joke) have read Fate is the Hunter. The writing style has many 'big' words and the prose is not your usual 'then I went flying, then we saw a big storm, it was scary' - it actually conveys a story using appropriate language. Surprised that a community focused on a hobby that usually necessitates greater than average intellectual capabilities is having such a hard time with hindsight's word choice. It's also interesting that most (all?) of my english-as-second-language friends actually have a superior vocabulary than my native speaking ones



Also reminds me of
 
Tantalum said:
Surprised that a community focused on a hobby that usually necessitates greater than average intellectual capabilities is having such a hard time with hindsight's word choice.
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I find it’s not @hindsight2020 ’s word choice that makes reading him difficult for me; it’s his syntax. I certainly understand the words but they sometimes appear in an unusual order, so I have to read him a bit carefully (and sometimes re-read) to figure out which noun an adjective is modifying or what a pronoun references.

That’s not unusual in someone who’s learned to think in a different language and comes to English later.
 
Tantalum said:
haha yeah, people must be admonished for speaking eloquently. Ah, big words - leave
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"Big words" are neither necessary nor sufficient to demonstrate eloquence.

Nauga,
who will make you an offer you can't understand
 
nauga said:
"Big words" are neither necessary nor sufficient to demonstrate eloquence.

Nauga,
who will make you an offer you can't understand
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certainly not, but correctly using a term that less people are familiar with shouldn't be met with immediate disdain. I enjoyed hindsight's post(s)
 
You guys ever listen to 'A Way with Words' ? They used to be on right after Car Talk.. if I forgot to shut the radio I ended up with it. It was a good show. Not sure if it's still on anymore
 
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