A new word "oxt"
Dan Goncharoff
thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 17 18:13:55 UTC 2014
Funny, I always thought "this Thursday" v "next Thursday" accomplished the
same thing.
DanG
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The real beauty of oxt is that it can refer to
> "not-this-coming-one-but-the=
> -one-after" for all sorts of categories of things.I'm going to make my own
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> hot sauce oxt Thursday (that is=2C July 24). Take the oxt left to get to
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> house. Qatar is hosting the oxt World Cup. I think we should spend oxt
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> g Day in Montana!We could even use the compound "oxtday" to refer to the
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> y after tomorrow. Several other languages=2C after all=2C have a
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> word that refers to this commonly-used concept=2C but we don't so far.
> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now FL 12.See how
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> h spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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