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Old 11-01-2010, 03:38 PM   #1
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yeah, that too, Galadriel.
If there was one word in English that is a combination of "curse" and "oath", I would choose that word.
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Old 11-02-2010, 04:28 AM   #2
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yeah, that too, Galadriel.
If there was one word in English that is a combination of "curse" and "oath", I would choose that word.
Haha. Say, the English language never really had single words as oxymorons, did it?
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Old 11-02-2010, 05:25 AM   #3
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It's not exactly an oxymoron. For example, in Russian, there in a general word that could mean curse, bless, and swear (as in oath). All these words coe fro the same root. I never heard such a word in English, so I guess there isn't any. Or maybe I'm such a dunce I just don't know English properly.
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Old 11-02-2010, 11:54 AM   #4
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It's not exactly an oxymoron. For example, in Russian, there in a general word that could mean curse, bless, and swear (as in oath). All these words coe fro the same root. I never heard such a word in English, so I guess there isn't any. Or maybe I'm such a dunce I just don't know English properly.
Er, the word "swear" can mean both of those two words ("curse" and "oath"), just not at the same time or the way I think you intended. Still... just had to point that out.
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Old 11-02-2010, 12:28 PM   #5
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Would have to agree with Galadriel on the word Nostalgia, that would be the one word I would choose to describe it.
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Old 11-04-2010, 06:18 AM   #6
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Would have to agree with Galadriel on the word Nostalgia, that would be the one word I would choose to describe it.
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