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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Heiroglyphic
is a fucking adjective! There is no such thing as "hieroglyphics" except in the addled minds of twatty dictionary editors with a 2.2 in English and sociology from Anglia Rusking University.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 18:59, 7 replies)
And, indeed
in the addled minds of just about everyone else in the English-speaking world. I fear this may be an instance of having to accept that the moral decay of society is irreversible.

Is "heiroglyphs" the correct term or am I thick?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 20:21, closed)

I have reluctantly accepted the said decay - but occasionally I get to whinge about it in places like this :) Hieroglyph is indeed the noun.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 20:56, closed)
Hieroglyphs would be a plural noun, non-specific.
Yes, I believe 'hieroglyphs' is the correct term. You wouldn't, for example, say that temple walls are covered in hieroglyphics; you'd say that temple walls are covered in hieroglyphs or covered in hieroglyphic script.

/Ancient-Egypt addict
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 21:01, closed)
In your haste to post a message
you inadvertently demonstrated a high level of hypocritical, slap-dash word-twattery - the correct name of the university being 'Anglia Ruskin' and NOT 'Anglia Rusking'.

Sin, cast, stone ;)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 21:05, closed)
Indeed
Try not to help a man with a speck of dust in his own eye until you can see past the log in yours :P
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 22:05, closed)
It's called a typo...
...like using a hyphen instead of an em-dash. In correcting the typo you have you inadvertently demonstrated a high level of slap-dash forum-twattery ;)

(I had the misfortune to do my masters there, I have a reasonable idea how to spell it.:P )
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 23:22, closed)
Anyway
The ones nearer the bottom are loweroglyphs.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 23:53, closed)

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