WOK 2004 - You Decide

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WOK 2004 - You Decide

WOK V X-Game
4
27%
WOK V Normal
3
20%
WOK IV X-Game
3
20%
WOK IV Normal
5
33%
 
Total votes: 15

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Post by Duke » Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:43 am

You guys are scaring me now since I have built it all and only have to make a door and an outlet and then I am good to go.

I still feel that 10cm should be good enough. It it gets cold I simply put on some bunnyslippers and a sweater. As long as I cant actually see my breath I should be alright.

It isnt intended to be a living space. I am only sitting there an hour here and there and basically to fill out AOF's :wink:

So it is insulation? It is isolering in Swedish and I felt that it sounded appropriate to "Englify" into isolation since I am trying to isolate myself from the cold (and my family). Insulation sounds wierd. To insulate? Is this REAL English or an American screwed up word with a different Queens English origin?

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Post by korexus » Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:25 am

Sorry, Duke but we say insulate too. From the latin insula meaning island.
Isolate is a word too, but in heat and electircity we use insulation...


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Post by TK » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:45 am

korexus wrote:Sorry, Duke but we say insulate too. From the latin insula meaning island.

Actually it comes from "insulatus" which means "made into an island".

This makes a lot more sense if you think about the meaning of "insulate".

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Post by korexus » Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:15 am

TK wrote: Actually it comes from "insulatus" which means "made into an island".

This makes a lot more sense if you think about the meaning of "insulate".
That's what I get for working from memory instead of checking in a dictionary, but the dictionary is all the way over there *gestures at TK's room* and I'm over here!
(Yes I know there are online dictionaries, but as you know I'm lazy. Anyway, I was still right unless your a nit-picker...)


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Post by TK » Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:36 am

korexus wrote:That's what I get for working from memory...
You "remembered" that the word "insulation" doesnt quite from come from the latin for "island"???

:lol:


Online dictionaries suck. Here endeth the lesson. :wink:

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Post by korexus » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:41 pm

No, I remembered that "insula" meant "island" and made the enourmous leap of faith that there might be a connection.

If I'd wanted to use an online dictionary, oed.com would have told me:

"f. L. insula island + -ATE(3)"

and ATE(3) would let me know that it was "a verbal formative" verbs are doing words, right TK? It would then give me a nice translation of the latin as "To make into an island by surrounding with water; to convert into an island." Which when you really think about it, makes even more sense as when you insulate something you are *making* it into an island, you are not *made* it into an island.


The true lesson here is that, while in Oxford, the online dictionaries are better than the ones in TK's room, however guesswork and memory gets you just about as close in about one tenth of the time. Listen ye not to the false teachings of the apostate!


Btw, Duke. While I'm here, oed also mentions that isolate is from the latin for "to reduce into an island" so pretty much the same meaning but we chose the other word to you guys. :wink:


Are we all happy now?


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Aha! Further perusal of oed.com reveals that there is also "insulate" as an adjective which does have the derivation which TK mentioned. This is described as "rare" and with the same meaning as "insulated".

Moral of the story: Check the entry before posting next time, TK. :P [/edit]
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Post by Validon » Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:13 pm

Back to the original item in this thread!!!!! :wink:

Donut!!!!! Clan champs is almost over 1 or 2 more turns at best SO GO AHEAD AND OPEN A WAITLIST ALREADY!!!!!!! :D

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Post by Donut » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:25 pm

Korexus wrote:Sorry, Josh. Do you want your thread back at any time?
No... I've stolen many threads...

The best part is that they could have done that in about 5 min by actually speaking to each other.

I don't think the clan champs will be over in a turn or 2... but I will open a waitlist soon. I've PMed several of the new members to the boards and am hoping that some of them return a message to me before I throw a steak out to the dogs. :P

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Post by TK » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:11 pm

Yeah, sorry Donut. I appear to have made Korexus dig such a deep hole that Wales will soon be an island.

Oops, I mentioned him again. That means you can expect at least one more post... :wink:

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Post by Donut » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:24 pm

Korexus, Korexus, Korexus... 3 more :wink:
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Post by korexus » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:36 pm

Well, as Donut really wants me to post, here you go!

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My most pointless post yet! :D
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Post by Underdog » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:39 am

LOSER, LOSER, LOSER.

OK 3 more from one of them I will let them decide which one should make those replies.
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Post by Donut » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:49 am

Huh?
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