Post AWWdE8mrcLuww2UUGu by RiaResists@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AWV98ihTzMVynVVraS by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-06-09T02:48:24Z
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My favorite inkhorn term from the 1600s that didn't survive is "imcompossible," which meant "incapable of coexisting."#TheGrammarDaily
(DIR) Post #AWV9Y5V8LwHmkipiE4 by MerritMD@med-mastodon.com
2023-06-09T02:52:56Z
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@grammargirl “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us, we’re incompossible.”
(DIR) Post #AWV9ui5nYGeqoQln1M by miblo@mas.to
2023-06-09T02:57:03Z
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@grammargirl Let's spare a thought for incompossible people.
(DIR) Post #AWVA8WBOd1kvvfyLaa by JohnDA@social.vivaldi.net
2023-06-09T02:59:32Z
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@grammargirl it seems an incompossibility that a statement is both true and false 😀(_OED_ quotations, a few from 19th C, seem to be theological or philosophical).
(DIR) Post #AWVACIDcUMZbmKoQXg by icastico@c.im
2023-06-09T03:00:12Z
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@grammargirl The former president and the truth are incompossible.
(DIR) Post #AWVAU8JC4aCKFtvUmW by skua@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T03:03:26Z
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@grammargirl You say my repeated infidelities are incompossible with your need for demonstrated commitment but honey you lured me away from my first wife and the six children we had together.
(DIR) Post #AWVAUuzN54SNEc1rBg by icastico@c.im
2023-06-09T03:03:36Z
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@grammargirl Did “incompossible” not survive because it and “incompatible” were incompossible?
(DIR) Post #AWVAvwWbThILojSY2C by jrod3737@mstdn.social
2023-06-09T03:08:29Z
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@grammargirl Realizing he was now her ex-boyfriend, he turned, walked toward his car, and fought the urge to look back; two people can be incompossibly perfect.
(DIR) Post #AWVBBIctaTzQhvj10q by dernub@universeodon.com
2023-06-09T03:11:15Z
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@grammargirl Matter and anti-matter are incompossible.
(DIR) Post #AWVBofq5DVwDzhfVxo by coboldragon@dice.camp
2023-06-09T03:18:22Z
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@grammargirl I have a question I've been meaning to ask you. I pronounce extraordinary as "extrordinary." In the past few years I hear people pronounce it as extra ordinary. To me this means that someone is unusually ordinary. The two pronunciations are incompossible in my brain, because one seems so silly. Why has this started happening? Is it wrong, or am I suddenly wrong? I know language changes, even when it makes me sad.
(DIR) Post #AWVBzXlRZyhq8UgKJ6 by h2onolan@infosec.exchange
2023-06-09T03:20:21Z
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@grammargirl having discovered human survival and a civilization based on capitalism to be utterly incompossible, humanity chose an a slow and horrific descent into annihilation because that was easier than stopping the moneymen.
(DIR) Post #AWVC50QESQAOSsMfoG by skua@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T03:21:19Z
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@grammargirl Lovely erudite irresponsible destructive character there. But now I can't find the word for him blaming someone else for his own action in deserting his first wife and children.There is a cultural gender bias to have "honey" be a woman.But that is just a bias.Though with that gendering in place this boor becomes "a sexist pig" to use a 1970s term.
(DIR) Post #AWVC6cZa6D3z4pVYGW by h2onolan@infosec.exchange
2023-06-09T03:21:34Z
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@grammargirl having discovered human survival and a civilization based on capitalism to be utterly incompossible, humanity chose a slow and horrific descent into annihilation because that was easier than stopping the moneymen.
(DIR) Post #AWVCVdUZondZAS5xIW by elaterite@fosstodon.org
2023-06-09T03:26:04Z
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@grammargirl Whenever the ex-president speaks, truth and facts are an incompossibility.
(DIR) Post #AWVCoITsA7XjVJfEKe by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-06-09T03:29:31Z
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@coboldragon Merriam-Webster lists both pronunciations, but also has a usage note explaining the difference between "extraordinary" and "extra ordinary." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extraordinaryI'm not sure I've heard anyone pronouncing the single word as "extra ordinary" (yet). The OED has it as the third British pronunciation, but not as an American pronunciation.
(DIR) Post #AWVD8ieyXSewUMayP2 by coboldragon@dice.camp
2023-06-09T03:33:11Z
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@grammargirl @coboldragon I'm fairly certain that I've heard people pronounce it as two words when they really meant extraordinary, as in beyond ordinary. I'll try to find examples, because now I'm curious.
(DIR) Post #AWVESddV1iKceZy0kC by batyalee@universeodon.com
2023-06-09T03:48:00Z
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@grammargirl #Twitter is incompossible in a society that values truth, accountability, and gender equality.
(DIR) Post #AWVEjFIAn3HS4huWVE by marcgeffen@newsie.social
2023-06-09T03:50:57Z
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@grammargirl As a civil servant, public taxes make my incompossible. 😁
(DIR) Post #AWVF3o1FNyK9ZQnVdQ by CardboardRobot@mstdn.social
2023-06-09T03:54:43Z
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@grammargirl Left-half white Star Trek guy was incompossible with right-half white Star Trek guy.
(DIR) Post #AWVH2wGnQKkcmKmijg by DeesaRoot@universeodon.com
2023-06-09T04:16:58Z
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@grammargirl isnt that just an archaic term for oxymoron, like military intelligence? (wink wink 😉)
(DIR) Post #AWVIWgrfMfxBdpmTtg by thepoliticalcat@mstdn.social
2023-06-09T04:33:32Z
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@grammargirl Although I love our two kitty bois, Izzy and Juju, and they truly love each other, they're, unfortunately, incompossible. How'zat?
(DIR) Post #AWVJJTkqtauBAgrFke by timrichards@aus.social
2023-06-09T04:42:17Z
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@grammargirl @joannaholman The US Republicans are incompossible with democracy.
(DIR) Post #AWVJM956DQ8nvGbFia by goodthinking@beige.party
2023-06-09T04:42:49Z
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@grammargirl
(DIR) Post #AWVK9XaVtAek7OqZnM by staidwinnow@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T04:51:48Z
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@grammargirl Faith and reason are incompossible. Tolerance of the former only damages the latter.
(DIR) Post #AWVKDDXuLY2t7LNiO8 by staidwinnow@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T04:52:29Z
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@grammargirl Faith and reason are incompossible. Tolerance of the former only damages the latter.Hey, @Neekerbreeker what do you think?
(DIR) Post #AWVQAbkAWTox1PFt5s by jectoons@comicscamp.club
2023-06-09T05:59:10Z
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@grammargirl Food and hunger are incompossible. Would that work? 🤔
(DIR) Post #AWVTdGzF4iqwuDfLqC by the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-06-09T06:37:59Z
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@grammargirl only if, after I use it correctly, I get to sucker-punch someone who says "impactful."
(DIR) Post #AWVqHpQUeBFgIE9jKS by JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
2023-06-09T10:51:48Z
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@grammargirl @jgamble If I mistake not, Ambrose Bierce included “incompossible” in *The Devil’s dictionary*.
(DIR) Post #AWVxt5ZGIP5ekSyITI by Jorsh@beige.party
2023-06-09T12:16:58Z
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@grammargirl While they enjoy each other's company, my mother's horses are incompossible.
(DIR) Post #AWW5ydnzEDZG1118d6 by jimfl@hachyderm.io
2023-06-09T13:47:34Z
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@grammargirl I simply haven’t time for these incompossible nincompoops!
(DIR) Post #AWW8YJU6SQ4NKDr36O by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-06-09T14:16:32Z
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@jectoons I know sometimes I can eat and still be hungry, so I don't think food and hunger are incompossible, at least not for everyone.
(DIR) Post #AWW8pMsn4mrsmsXBpY by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-06-09T14:19:35Z
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@JeffreyJDean @jgamble You are correct. "The Devil's Dictionary" is on Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm
(DIR) Post #AWWJuFPtMTCaZjXwqO by drweb2@newsie.social
2023-06-09T16:23:43Z
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@grammargirl Trump and America are incompossible.
(DIR) Post #AWWaQo6RX4tqgbzsES by jectoons@comicscamp.club
2023-06-09T19:28:50Z
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@grammargirl True true, that happens to me when I eat too fast.Maybe "That individual with the unsavory opinion and I are incompossible".
(DIR) Post #AWWcQpjzduCnfsdWsa by cfauske@c18.masto.host
2023-06-09T19:51:18Z
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@grammargirl Donald Trump and the truth are incompressible. [Or is that too easy?]
(DIR) Post #AWWdE8mrcLuww2UUGu by RiaResists@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T20:00:08Z
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@grammargirl I LOVE that word! Dotard is incompossible with decency
(DIR) Post #AWcOcHI3eq70rR39pA by JAFreeborne@writing.exchange
2023-06-12T14:44:45Z
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@grammargirl Thanks for "inkhorn term" as well as "imcompossible." The latter in a sentence: How combustively imcompossible we are as a species to other species.