[macintologist]

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Sip, the best way matey is to set yourself a target then break ot down into smaller, more easily attenable targets.

The PSP also has two cores , so the exact same type of results should be attenable

For one thing, the boy seems to know who Misuzu and Yukito are when he looked at them, indicating that he has information only attenable if he is...

Most people don't have too strong opinions on it and a compromise based on legalization and tougher border controls seems politically attenable

Hell even computer programmers don't know what it means as it made it into output code:
broadband help � Forums � Qwest � What causes CRC errors?

[Millennium]

Maybe if you're Senor Cardgage.

[Chuckit]

They're probably confusing "attainable" and "tenable" by way of detain->detention or something like that.

[Dakar²]

I'm not sure an answer to your question is atennable.

[icruise]

Attainable is a word.

[Dakar²]

My old UHF tv was atennable.

[starman]

attennable: the ability to put an antenna on something.

"Is my roof antennable?"

[Dakar²]

Beat you to it

[starman]

Originally Posted by Dakar²

Beat you to it

Stop sharing my brain!

[Dakar²]

But I promise I'll put it back where I found it!

[bstone]

I think we need vmarks to chime in on this one. He's a linguist or something.

Perhaps they mean the abscence of tennable. Adding an "a" before a word means it can't or not or something.

[Chuckit]

It's clear from usage that the people mean "attainable." It's kind of an unusual case of hypercorrection.

[Oisín]

I think we need vmarks to chime in on this one. He's a linguist or something.

You mean tooki?

Perhaps they mean the abscence of tennable. Adding an "a" before a word means it can't or not or something.

And what, pray tell, is “tennable” supposed to mean, then? ‘Tenable’, perhaps? The oppose of that would be ‘untenable’, not ‘atenable’. The prefix ‘a-’ should properly only be used with Greek loan words (though there are exceptions to this).


Edit: It’s also a fairly logical sort of hyper-correction. Many verbs ending in ‘-tain’ (< French -tenir < Latin -tinere < suffix form of tenere, ‘to have’) do have a ‘-tain’/‘-ten-’ contrast, as Chuckit pointed out. In these verbs, the ‘-tain’ comes from an old stressed (and thus prolonged) e, and the e is the ‘original’ vowel. In certain other verbs, though, such as ‘attain’, the ‘-tain’ has a different origin (< French -teindre < Old French -tingre < Latin -tingere < suffix form of tangere, ‘to touch’), and the ‘-tain’ of those verbs was never an e: it was an a and an i, but never and e.

[sek929]

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

[Dakar²]

It's practically bursting with adequetulence.

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by sek929

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

You mean corpulent?

adjective (of a person) fat.

[sek929]

heh, no.

I'm aware of corpulent, but 'cromulent' is a joke word used in a Simpsons episode.

"Before I moved to Springfield I'd never heard of the word embiggens."

"I dunno why, it's a perfectly cromluent word"

[Eriamjh]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest Mac User.

[ghporter]

That sort of wording reminds me of Archie Bunker. Archie wanted to appear more educated than he was, so he misused a lot of words. This is a not uncommon tactic; sound smart by using big words.

It was pretty typical in my last career to hear this sort of thing; it takes time and effort to develop a decent vocabulary, and that's often time the folks I worked with lacked. So I heard about "mute" points, and people refered to useless verbiage as "blasé, blasé, blasé". It was kind of frustrating, because these folks were indeed smart, just overspecialized and lacking breadth in their vocabularies.

[ghporter]

That sort of wording reminds me of Archie Bunker. Archie wanted to appear more educated than he was, so he misused a lot of words. This is a not uncommon tactic; sound smart by using big words.

It was pretty typical in my last career to hear this sort of thing; it takes time and effort to develop a decent vocabulary, and that's often time the folks I worked with lacked. So I heard about "mute" points, and people refered to useless verbiage as "blasé, blasé, blasé". It was kind of frustrating, because these folks were indeed smart, just overspecialized and lacking breadth in their vocabularies.

[davesimondotcom]

Like Bucky Katt once said, "It is too a word, I just said it!"

[ghporter]

Bucky says a lot of things-some of them even make sense.

[Love Calm Quiet]

Atennable is quite untenable.

[volcano]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

That sort of wording reminds me of Archie Bunker. Archie wanted to appear more educated than he was, so he misused a lot of words. This is a not uncommon tactic; sound smart by using big words.

Exactly.

My personal favorites:

"What do I look like, an inferior decorator?"

(Archie traced Edith's signature)
Edith: "That's forgery!"
Archie: "No, that's tracery!"

"I work for myself. I'm what ya call an "entramanure.""

"Last will & tentacle."

And last but not least:

"They just wanna get rid of us old guys over 50 that's all, and put us out to pasture. Well I ain't ready to be pasteurized!"

That show was genius. I'm young, and that show was playing as re-runs when I was born, but I still love it to death.

[Love Calm Quiet]

Funny thing about Archie & his "last will & teslicle" approach to political anal ysis is...

American rednecks didn't get the jokes as 'jokes' ... and probably would have voted him president.