View Poll Results: Who is to blame?

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  • The Mexican government is primarily to blame

    5 20.00%

  • The American owned factory farm is primarily to blame

    4 16.00%

  • Both Mexico and the corporation must share the blame

    4 16.00%

  • It doesn't matter. The end is nigh.

    12 48.00%
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  1. 05-05-2009, 03:07 AM #21
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    I am not sure I understand the question. Are you suggesting there really is a problem with some sort of flu? I know the media says there is but I am not sure I'm buying today. The use of the word "pandemic" seems to be a new thing to me. There was a word we used to use that meant alot of people getting sick from the same thing. That word was "epidemic". I guess there aren't any more epidemics.

    Isn't it strange how the English language has changed so much in the last few years? There are new pronounciations for words like Uranus. It used to sound like "your anus" but no more. What are some of the other ones? I can't think straight right now.

    I want to get a t-shirt that says "Dog is my co-pilot".
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    Quote Originally Posted by icedog View Post
    I am not sure I understand the question. Are you suggesting there really is a problem with some sort of flu? I know the media says there is but I am not sure I'm buying today. The use of the word "pandemic" seems to be a new thing to me. There was a word we used to use that meant alot of people getting sick from the same thing. That word was "epidemic". I guess there aren't any more epidemics.

    Isn't it strange how the English language has changed so much in the last few years? There are new pronounciations for words like Uranus. It used to sound like "your anus" but no more. What are some of the other ones? I can't think straight right now.

    I want to get a t-shirt that says "Dog is my co-pilot".
    Pandemic is a word thats been around as long as I can remember.


    Epidemic refers to a disease spreading rapidly through a community.

    Pandemic refers to a disease spreading rapidly through whole continents or the whole world.

    By the way, I don't buy it either!
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    About that planet; YUHR-uh-nus and yuhr-A-nus have always been correct, the latter being my personal preference. I believe that only North Americans have ever mispronounced the name yore-AE-nus as you suggest, Icedog.

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    I don't even need to know what the question is to know that I'd like to place one vote for each of the four poll options!
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  6. 05-05-2009, 04:36 PM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by JMS View Post
    Based on the poll results it looks like the majority of posters are having you on. They are humoring you, minus the superfluous "U".
    Superfluous? SUPERFLUOUS?!?! Or maybe you'd like to spell that 'superfluos'?

    Good grief, is nothing holy anymore? You'll be trying to spell 'grey' with an 'a' next!

    Outrageous!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JMS View Post
    Pandemic is a word thats been around as long as I can remember.


    Epidemic refers to a disease spreading rapidly through a community.

    Pandemic refers to a disease spreading rapidly through whole continents or the whole world.

    By the way, I don't buy it either!
    I was just about to make that exact post.

    Epidemic and Pandemic do not mean the same thing, a pandemic is, effectively, a widespread epidemic.

    I'm not sure it's a pandemic, but it is certainly widespread.

    Language is a dynamic thing, it is constantly changing. In this case, however, you were just ignorant of the word, it has been in use for over 150 years I think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gregs656 View Post
    you were just ignorant.
    Thank you very much but it is you who were ignorant. The truth to which you was ignorant is I not only were ignorant, I still are ignorant. I am not an ignoramus. I am the ignoramost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JMS View Post
    Pandemic is a word thats been around as long as I can remember.

    Epidemic refers to a disease spreading rapidly through a community.
    Epidemiologists study the spread of diseases among populations and advise on ways to control them.

    There are no pandemiologists. The word doesn't even seem to exist. We're screwed. PANIC!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rajagra View Post
    Epidemiologists study the spread of diseases among populations and advise on ways to control them.

    There are no pandemiologists. The word doesn't even seem to exist. We're screwed. PANIC!!!
    We don't need pandemiologists, because it's just a wide spread epidemic.

    The word dates back to the mid C19!

    Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press
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