21 May 05
Originally posted by TrollGirl28So all of this came from this one little post? hmm makes you think dont it. Either alot of people like bowman or alot of people really dont like hypocritical/ stupid people. I wonder which one it is?
Who thinks he's lockes in a bubble with just a laptop for company? And who cares about spelling on an online forum?
21 May 05
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For you skeptics, I quote from the Shorter Oxford Dictionary:
quagmire
A n. 1 A wet boggy area of land that gives way underfoot; a fen, a marsh. L16.
> D. GARNETT Smith stepped into a quagmire in which he sank up to his middle.
2 transf. & fig.
> T. BROWN The rich..drown’d in foggy quagmires of fat and dropsy.
a Anything soft, flabby, or yielding. M17.
b An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation. L18.
> A. FRANCE Trust them..to guide us through the quagmire of our own conflicts.
B v.t. In pass.Be sunk or stuck in a quagmire. rare. E18.
quagmiry a. (rare) of the nature of a quagmire; boggy. M17.
21 May 05
Originally posted by BowmannThanks. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary (free online dictionary) only mentions A 1 and 2b. So do all the other online dictionaries I checked, as well as two of my English-German dictionaries (the third only mentions A 1).
For you skeptics, I quote from the Shorter Oxford Dictionary:
[b]quagmire
A n. 1 A wet boggy area of land that gives way underfoot; a fen, a marsh. L16.
> D. GARNETT Smith stepped into a quagmire in which he sank up to his middle.
2 transf. & fig.
> T. BROWN The rich..drown’d in foggy quagmires of fat and dropsy.
a Any ...[text shortened]... ire. rare. E18.
quagmiry a. (rare) of the nature of a quagmire; boggy. M17.[/b]
24 May 05
Originally posted by TrollGirl28Er, no. I am on nobody's side. And I stand corrected regarding "quagmire". I am sure Bowmann knows a lot more about the English language than I do, which is not surprising since it's only my third language in the order of proficiency, and the fifth language I started learning. However, I agree with you that Bowmann is weird. So are you. And I am probably even weirder than both of you.
THANK YOU!! (Hey are you on my side?)