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Originally Posted by MooseMan3000
if you can't spell it well enough to look it up, chances are you don't know what it means well enough to use in a sentence.
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MooseMan, off topic a bit, but it's amusing to see the way really young kids totally disregard that. My brother is five years younger than I am, and given that I have always needed time to myself to unwind, and he was a real attention-seeker, he used to be quite good at driving me to the point of exasperation. Anyway, you know the way young kids will sometimes latch onto a new word that they've heard an adult using and proceed to use it themselves, ad nauseum, regardless of the fact that they don't have a clue what it means? My brother did that with the word "massacre". For a while, he used to say to people, "You forgot to massacre me." There were many times he didn't realise just how much he was tempting fate!