Canada's role in an escalation in the war against Iran

[TwoDucks]

I would appreciate a link.

Geez, is your internet broken? I'll even give you a relevant excerpt:

(rare, historical) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.

- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expediate

Although perhaps he meant Israel would expediate her enemies...

[WWWTT]

Geez, is your internet broken? I'll even give you a relevant excerpt:

- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expediate

Although perhaps he meant Israel would expediate her enemies...

Ya that's what I exactly meant!

Israel is going to injure the dogs of Iran?!?!?!?

Actually the staff at immigration Canada use the word and many lawyers.

WWWTT

[Wild Bill]

Geez, is your internet broken? I'll even give you a relevant excerpt:

- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expediate

Although perhaps he meant Israel would expediate her enemies...

Thanks for the link! Now I understand the confusion.

After actually reading the whole story I see that first off, expediate is an adjective. WWTT used it as a verb, I believe.

"Verb

expediate

Common misconstruction of expedite."

Irregardless (sic) I think I had every right to be confused.

[cybercoma]

It was a foolish malapropism. Let's move on.

[August1991]

It was a foolish malapropism. Let's move on.

Malapropism? Cybercoma, you have nothing to fear compared to the other monstrosity in this thread.

Harper Bernardo and Williams are at an economics conference when the case study walks in. It is an attractive 30 some female with teenage daughters.

So the question is asked: How do we respond to improving the economy using this person as an example.

Williams goes first: I say we rape her for what she's worth to improve our situation. (version 2 - and take her panties - so we have a net material gain)

Bernardo follows: I say we rape her children. (version 2 and film it so we can use the tapes as a future commodity holding)

Harper is the last one to speak: I say we rape her and her children for all they're worth to improve our situation. (version 2 she's clearly a liberal public service employee) * man this is pretty bad joke..

(best I could do on the fly no offence to the families of those who have been effected by these monsters or the monsters themselves if undeserving.)

What a loathsome comparison.

I don't know if you are an agent provocateur paid by the Iranian regime to post on western forums or if you are simply a useful idiot. In either case, the Iranian regime is despicable; among many other atrocities, its agents deliberately tortured and then killed Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian citizen.

This regime of ignorant medieval patriarchs is a threat to western civilization. Oriana Fallaci pegged both the Shah and the mullahs accurately.

Edited August 15, 2012 by August1991

[cybercoma]

Malapropism? Cybercoma, you have nothing to fear compared to the other monstrosity in this thread.

I'm not even sure what you're saying. My post was about WWWTT using 'expediate' instead of 'expedite.' This is called a malapropism:

malapropism (ˈmæləprɒpˌɪzəm)

— n

1. the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one of similar sound, esp when creating a ridiculous effect, as in I am not under the affluence of alcohol

I made the post because people are hung up on it and WWWTT is embarrassingly trying to pretend that's not the case. It happens to everyone. We should just move on from that.

I don't even know what "the other monstrosity in this thread" is.

[bleeding heart]

I don't even know what "the other monstrosity in this thread" is.

It appears that August is referring to two sins committed by another poster:

1. An admittedly ugly and spurious little analogical joke about Bernardo;

2. The more serious crime of disagreeing that Iran is a "threat to Western civilization," an opinion which deserves only the harshest condemnations, evidently.

[Wild Bill]

I'm not even sure what you're saying. My post was about WWWTT using 'expediate' instead of 'expedite.' This is called a malapropism:

I made the post because people are hung up on it and WWWTT is embarrassingly trying to pretend that's not the case. It happens to everyone. We should just move on from that.

I don't even know what "the other monstrosity in this thread" is.

CC, you are quite right that the mistake in itself was not a big deal. We all make malapropisms, mistakes in grammar and false words like "irregardless". That was never why I challenged WWWTT on it.

I was pointing out how he would try to deny his mistake and insist he was correct! The fact that he would do so says things about his maturity and ego and an illustration of how he tries to debate.

Anyone else (well, except possibly a few others here) would have simply laughed and said "mea culpa".

Perhaps anyone else would have done a quick google to be sure. WWWTT didn't even do that! Someone else had to do it for him.

It's not that big a deal, agreed. Still, perhaps WWWTT should ponder it a mite. It's all part of learning and improving as we grow older.

[WWWTT]

Thanks for the link! Now I understand the confusion.

After actually reading the whole story I see that first off, expediate is an adjective. WWTT used it as a verb, I believe.

"Verb

expediate

Common misconstruction of expedite."

Irregardless (sic) I think I had every right to be confused.

Ya good for you Wild.

Give yourself a big pat on the back for being so vigilante and keep voting conservative.

Maybe one day you can tell your grand kids how you stood up against the big bad Orange wave using the word expediate and you finally said "NO MORE"!Or something like that.

WWWTT

[WWWTT]

It was a foolish malapropism. Let's move on.

I did a search on the word when I first used it and a couple sites said it was ok.

I use it cause I like it.

WWWTT

[WWWTT]

Thanks for the link! Now I understand the confusion.

After actually reading the whole story I see that first off, expediate is an adjective. WWTT used it as a verb, I believe.

I am using it as an adverb.

WWWTT

[WWWTT]

It's not that big a deal, agreed. Still, perhaps WWWTT should ponder it a mite. It's all part of learning and improving as we grow older.

Are you for real buddy?

How old are you?

When I used the word,the spell check did not like it so I double checked the word and a couple of definitions cleared my use of it.

Pretty much similar to color and colour.

I already have a strong working capacity of the English language so there is nothing wrong in adding or deleting some common words/phrases or odd irregularities to give my own signature to my speech and writing.

Don't like it?Tuff!

WWWTT

[August1991]

I'm not even sure what you're saying. My post was about WWWTT using 'expediate' instead of 'expedite.'

Cybercoma, I know that you're not the poster "login". (Although on some days, I wonder whether you're a "useful idiot".)

[cybercoma]

August, what's the point you're trying to make here?