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Leftists just make it so easy to pick on them.  :-) I'm guessing that should have been intimidate. :thatsright:

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Warning Will Robinson! There's a new rule on JPR regarding ANY post that in any way intimates that Bernie might not win the Democratic nomination
Read it here: Warning Will Robinson! There's a new rule on JPR regarding ANY post that in any way intimates that Bernie might not win the Democratic nomination.
 
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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2016, 08:20:19 AM »
No, it's correct. It's pretentious and silly, but correct.
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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2016, 11:53:14 AM »
No, it's correct. It's pretentious and silly, but correct.

No, it's not.

She meant "insinuates."
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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2016, 12:30:51 PM »
No, it's not.

She meant "insinuates."
"Insinuates" might be better because of its negative shading, but I still think it's a proper usage of "intimate".

 

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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2016, 12:31:49 PM »
I hope nadin weighs in on this.

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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2016, 03:49:42 PM »
Webster says:

Full Definition of intimate

intimated intimating

    transitive verb

    1    :  to make known especially publicly or formally : 

    2:  to communicate delicately and indirectly : 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intimate
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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2016, 03:51:15 PM »
Webster says:

Full Definition of intimate

intimated intimating

    transitive verb

    1    :  to make known especially publicly or formally : 

    2:  to communicate delicately and indirectly : 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intimate

Well now, I knew that stuff, but objected because I didn't think the primitive did, and so figured the primitive misspelled.
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Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2016, 05:07:13 PM »
Well now, I knew that stuff, but objected because I didn't think the primitive did, and so figured the primitive misspelled.

I can't recall it ever being used in that way in casual conversation... of course around these parts that does not mean much... so I looked it up.  When dealing with dummies one never knows. For all I know the dummie wants to be intimate with Bernie and made a Freudian slip.   :rotf:
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Re: The smartest people in the World should really use spell check
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2016, 03:10:42 PM »
Well now, I knew that stuff, but objected because I didn't think the primitive did, and so figured the primitive misspelled.

I figured the DUmmy was an English Literature major, and pretentious by nature.
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