It's Lens

Richard Polhill wrote:

The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you

Well, according to:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lens

Lens is just a modern term for "have a butchers at"...

Not sure if it is a spoof or real site - it looks like it is a bit close to
Roger's Profanisaurus.

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John Bean wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:51:21 -0900, (Floyd
L. Davidson) wrote:

"Jeff R." wrote:
"William Graham" wrote in message
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "JimKramer"

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| Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you
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| Excellent advice, prudent and wise indeed and action. :-)
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| http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lense

Excellent !
In International News Groups one can not get hung up on spelling
variations.

To me, it is impolite to even correct anyone's English, unless the meaning
is ambivalent,
^^^^^^^^^^

Surely you meant "ambiguous".

:-)

"Abivalent" is not ambiguous in that statement.

He could have used "ambiguous", and that wouldn't be abivalent either.

Which is because, of course, the two words are synonyms, and therefore
ambiguous is abivalent and abivalent is abiguous, when used properly,
as he did.

Got that?

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/d.../d0081545.html

Got that?

And ambivalent opinion, to say the least, given the meaning of
the two words.

This does a much better job of explaining it than your cite,

http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ambiguous.html

But, if you want to get the *real*, un-ambiguous, non-ambivalent
connotations for these words, read this one:

http://www.bartleby.com/68/55/2255.html

Alas, if the complexity of that is too much, here's one that
gets right to the point:

"However, ambivalent is often used where you might expect
ambiguous"
http://www.allwords.com/word-ambiguous.html

While it doesn't show up precisely in all of these various references,
the significant point is actually that "amibiguous" is from Latin and
"ambivalent" is from German, with essentially the same basic meaning.

Keep in mind that dictionaries are not rule books; they are a
collection of observed usage.



Eventually, you'll get it!

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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

Abivalent is to bivalent, as amoral is to moral...
;-)
--
Skip Middleton
www.shadowcatcherimagery.com
www.pbase.com/skipm
"Tony Polson" wrote in message
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(Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:

"Abivalent" is not ambiguous in that statement.

He could have used "ambiguous", and that wouldn't be abivalent either.

Which is because, of course, the two words are synonyms, and therefore
ambiguous is abivalent and abivalent is abiguous, when used properly,
as he did.

Got that?


I have never seen the word "abivalent" before. What does it mean?

Or did you intend to type "ambivalent"?

"Jeff R." wrote in message
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"William Graham" wrote in message
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "JimKramer"

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| Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you
|
| Excellent advice, prudent and wise indeed and action. :-)
|
| http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lense

Excellent !
In International News Groups one can not get hung up on spelling
variations.

To me, it is impolite to even correct anyone's English, unless the
meaning is ambivalent,
^^^^^^^^^^

Surely you meant "ambiguous".

:-)

Err....Right......Thanks for the correction.......

"Stan Beck" wrote in message
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I thought it was lenze.

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You can take good photos with a bad camera, and horrible photos with a
good camera.

Yes, but if you are going to take horrible photos, they will be horrible
regardless of how good a camera you use, so you might as well enjoy yourself
and use the best equipment you can afford......

"Floyd L. Davidson" wrote in message
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"Jeff R." wrote:
"William Graham" wrote in message
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "JimKramer"

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| Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you
|
| Excellent advice, prudent and wise indeed and action. :-)
|
| http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lense

Excellent !
In International News Groups one can not get hung up on spelling
variations.

To me, it is impolite to even correct anyone's English, unless the
meaning
is ambivalent,
^^^^^^^^^^

Surely you meant "ambiguous".

:-)

"Abivalent" is not ambiguous in that statement.

He could have used "ambiguous", and that wouldn't be abivalent either.

Which is because, of course, the two words are synonyms,

No, they aren't. I can feel ambivalent, but not ambiguous.


Peter

"Skip" wrote in message
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Abivalent is to bivalent, as amoral is to moral...

Is bivalent an element like Hydrogen then?

;-)


Peter

William Graham wrote:
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You can take good photos with a bad camera, and horrible photos with a
good camera.

Yes, but if you are going to take horrible photos, they will be horrible
regardless of how good a camera you use, so you might as well enjoy yourself
and use the best equipment you can afford......


LOL!
My feelings, exactly.

In article , William
Graham wrote:

To me, it is impolite to even correct anyone's English, unless the meaning
is ambivalent, or I sense that the poster would like to be corrected. After
all, If I had to post in another language, it would be a miracle if anyone
could understand me at all!

I think it's sad when people lack basic English skills.

Bandicoot wrote:
"Skip" wrote in message
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Abivalent is to bivalent, as amoral is to moral...

Is bivalent an element like Hydrogen then?

;-)


It's a derivation of 'bivalve', which are the things on the rims you use
to fill up BIcycle tyres.

Simple, really...





mike (now clamming up) II