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On August 28 2015 00:51 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: See? Everything will be fine. If he tries to stiff you, tell everyone else to shoot at him. Well that's "the implication", isn't it? That's why no one tries to stiff you there.
"The implication". + Show Spoiler +
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Was Gobekli Tepe Plato's Atlantis?
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On August 28 2015 14:49 whatisthisasheep wrote: Was Gobekli Tepe Plato's Atlantis?
I'll ask him, but it sounds a bit remote both in time and space for legends to reach Plato. Minoans still get my vote.
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How is the Sphinx 4500 years older than the pyramids? Don't that mean the Egyptians didnt even build it?
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On August 30 2015 15:37 whatisthisasheep wrote: How is the Sphinx 3500 years older than the pyramids? It was built before them.
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What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"?
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On August 30 2015 16:18 FiWiFaKi wrote: What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"? Your question is invalid because that's a noun?
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On August 30 2015 16:32 im a roc wrote:Show nested quote +On August 30 2015 16:18 FiWiFaKi wrote: What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"? Your question is invalid because that's a noun?
"I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book"
"I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book"
I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol.
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On August 30 2015 16:36 FiWiFaKi wrote:Show nested quote +On August 30 2015 16:32 im a roc wrote:On August 30 2015 16:18 FiWiFaKi wrote: What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"? Your question is invalid because that's a noun? "I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book" "I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book" I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol. Yeah, that's not a verb. Synopsis is a noun which has a similar meaning to the word 'summary.'
I think 'synopsize' is the derivative verb that you're looking for, but that word feels uppity to me because I don't think I've ever heard another human use it in conversation. I think 'summarize' is your best bet.
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On August 30 2015 17:01 im a roc wrote:Show nested quote +On August 30 2015 16:36 FiWiFaKi wrote:On August 30 2015 16:32 im a roc wrote:On August 30 2015 16:18 FiWiFaKi wrote: What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"? Your question is invalid because that's a noun? "I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book" "I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book" I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol. Yeah, that's not a verb. Synopsis is a noun which has a similar meaning to the word 'summary.' I think 'synopsize' is the derivative verb that you're looking for, but that word feels uppity to me because I don't think I've ever heard another human use it in conversation. I think 'summarize' is your best bet. I've heard synopsize before
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Yeah. Go with "summarize this book" and "summarizing this book." Latin/greek equivalents are often used in English with one exclusively as one or another part of speech.
The greek sun-opsis (sight/understood together as a very rough literalism) actually makes the point. The word "opsis" is a noun form of horaoh, opsomai, eidon, heoraka/heohraka, heohramai/ohmmai, ohftheyn... which is a shitshow of a verb, even by Greek standards, with multiple origin words smashed clumsily into one "verb" (which really means multiple words that are independent, but some of which get used exclusively for specific tenses, with others filling in the gaps).
On August 30 2015 17:53 Fecalfeast wrote:Show nested quote +On August 30 2015 17:01 im a roc wrote:On August 30 2015 16:36 FiWiFaKi wrote:On August 30 2015 16:32 im a roc wrote:On August 30 2015 16:18 FiWiFaKi wrote: What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"? Your question is invalid because that's a noun? "I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book" "I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book" I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol. Yeah, that's not a verb. Synopsis is a noun which has a similar meaning to the word 'summary.' I think 'synopsize' is the derivative verb that you're looking for, but that word feels uppity to me because I don't think I've ever heard another human use it in conversation. I think 'summarize' is your best bet. I've heard synopsize before I've heard people sympathize with Donald Trump before.
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On August 30 2015 16:36 FiWiFaKi wrote:Show nested quote +On August 30 2015 16:32 im a roc wrote:On August 30 2015 16:18 FiWiFaKi wrote: What is the present participle (-ing ending) of the word "synopsis"? Your question is invalid because that's a noun? "I'm going to read this book" "I'm reading this book" "I'm going to synopsis this book" "I'm "_______" this book" I'm not an English expert by any stretch, just felt like it follows a similar structure to other verbs. Very possible I'm completely wrong lol.
"I'm doing a synopsis of this book" is the correct use of the word Synopsis.
Do a synopsis Doing a synopsis Did a synopsis
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Synthesizing is making some specific "matter" with industrial / research development (artificially) means as opposed to "finding" it somewhere "naturally? Summarizing deals in concepts, to synthesize is to create stuff, by often doing several abnormal things to other natural stuff.
We as a society have set up (and help set up) the industrial creation and distribution of a lot of "fluids" .. if you regularly get insulin for instance (because you find yourself in lifelong need because of being born like that), chances are it is synthetic insulin, not donated.
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The example I was giving wasn't the context I was using it in, so I can't just replace synopsis with summarize (I think a synopsis and summary are quite different in meaning regardless).
But I'll just take it as not existing. Definitely agree that synopsis is a noun now, and synopsize is the verb form... So following the rules, it appears that synopsizing would be the correct form, and everything suggests it should exist, it's just likely that the word is used infrequently enough that it's not added in dictionaries considering it's just a different tense.
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On August 30 2015 15:37 whatisthisasheep wrote: How is the Sphinx 4500 years older than the pyramids? Don't that mean the Egyptians didnt even build it? It's not. It's more like 4500 years older than the iPhone. Which makes it about the same age as the pyramids.
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On August 31 2015 15:33 zatic wrote:Show nested quote +On August 30 2015 15:37 whatisthisasheep wrote: How is the Sphinx 4500 years older than the pyramids? Don't that mean the Egyptians didnt even build it? It's not. It's more like 4500 years older than the iPhone. Which makes it about the same age as the pyramids.
Most of the Sphinx is a lot older than that. After all, it is just a shallow modification of an existing limestone formation, not a structure built from scratch by human hands. The limestone itself sedimented from a retreating sea 50 million years ago.
Chances are erosion and quarrying formed something that looked already like a lion to locals before sculptors went to work on it 4500 years ago. The sphinx was already there, hiding and sleeping within the stone, waiting for humans to recognize him and bring him out.
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well that's one way to shit on decades of human labor
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On August 31 2015 18:06 xM(Z wrote: well that's one way to shit on decades of human labor Human labor hype!
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On August 31 2015 21:39 fluidrone wrote:Show nested quote +On August 31 2015 18:06 xM(Z wrote: well that's one way to shit on decades of human labor Human labor hype!
#labormatters
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On August 31 2015 22:46 Thieving Magpie wrote:Show nested quote +On August 31 2015 21:39 fluidrone wrote:On August 31 2015 18:06 xM(Z wrote: well that's one way to shit on decades of human labor Human labor hype! #labormatters noinheritanceallowed
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