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    TexMec Senior Member Louis VI the Fat's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
    Given the way Madoff's name is pronounced, is this one of the finest cases of nominative determinism?
    Which reminds me, New Scientist wrote about nominative determinism a few months ago. We all knew the strange phenomenon really existed, and they set about figuring out why: article.

    Madoff has positive connotations to leaving people 'mad off'. This has been scientifically proven. Should this not be mitigating circumstance?

    Also, persons named Denis are disproportionally likely to live in Saint-Denis, people named Louis to live in St. Louis.



    Which confuses me just as much as the 'vulgar slang' status of .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Madoff has positive connotations to leaving people 'mad off'. This has been scientifically proven. Should this not be mitigating circumstance?
    In most of the news reports that I have heard, his name has been pronounced with a long 'a' and emphasis on the first syllable. As in "made off with the loot". It was this I was highlighting, but your pronunciation brings an even greater depth to the truth that this man was destined for larceny the moment he was born.

    As for , IIRC you used a word that is a common vulgarity for female pudenda. Invariably (as in your post) this is used as an insult, thus breaking forum rules twice over.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
    As for , IIRC you used a word that is a common vulgarity for female pudenda. Invariably (as in your post) this is used as an insult, thus breaking forum rules twice over.
    Huh? I am lost...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    Huh? I am lost...
    Yay! Another non-native speaker endlessly lost in the world's most incomprehensible language.


    I'll never give up! Let's test if I figured out the difference between the 'vulgar' and the 'informal' variant of the word:

    Bernie made off's a twit.

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    "If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
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    Ummm .... yeah. If I may move from the inexplicable to the splicable, Bernie hires a high-class prison consultant to "find the best possible jail."

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    They can try to cherry-pick Bernie's new residence all they want. Judge Chin gave that sentence to ensure it won't be Club-Fed. Tell us where you buried the money Bernie. If not, they'll keep squeezing the accomplices in future court trials till somebody sings.
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