On 2021-08-13 5:31 p.m., Weaver wrote: > On 14-08-2021 07:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 2021-08-13 4:59 p.m., John Hasler wrote: >>> Stefan writes: >>>> How odd. I always assumed that it was the comic-strip style >>>> representation of the sound of hanging up the phone abruptly. >>> >>> No. I was there when it came into use. It definitely represents the >>> sound of a small object dropping into a large tank with liquid at the >>> bottom. A septic tank, for example. It was common to respond to a >>> particularly asinine article with the one-word followup "plonk". >>> >>> I've never seen any point in telling the world (or the plonked >>> individual) about the action, though. >>> >> I have serious doubt against the "plonked" being able to appreciate what >> is happening to him. Most of the time, they won't stop and will just >> continue to argue against themselves. Something trying to use words from >> language they don't even master while trying to do so. > > This would be typical: waxing wisely on a term they were obviously not > familiar with, five minutes ago, when they enquired after it. > Cheers! > This would be typical of not understand some simple second degree use of words. Could it be possible that I have another word that I use for "plonk" ? A word that can be substituted for ? Pretty much... I call this being "punked", maybe it's more used orally in Ontario and Eastern Canada than in writing.
I don't know what you are trying to prove here, except maybe that you are worth being associated with the word stated earlier ? > Harry. > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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