devotion

Loyalty motivated by love.

Devotion is an important part of a happy relationship.

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linguistic intolerance

A symptom of bigotry in which a bigot insists that the spelling, grammar, or pronunciation of other languages, cultures, or subcultures are inferior, or simply wrong.

Some linguistically intolerant Jews and Muslims, such as the late Sheikh Ahmed Deedat complain about what they call, the J Sickness, in which most European languages substitute the letter J for the letter Y when transliterating names from ancient texts, such as:

Joel for Yael
Judah for Yehuda
Joshua for Yeheshua
Joseph for Yusuf
Jonah for Yunus
Jesus for Yesus or Yeshua
Jehovah for Yehowa or Yahweh

Since J is the letter used to produce the Y sound in most European languages, this complaint is an example of petty linguistic intolerance. Sheikh Deedat also rather amusingly blamed the "J" sickness on Jehovah's Witnesses, as if they, in the 20th century had had the power to change the way Europeans spelled names in medieval times, so it's difficult to determine whether his bigotry was against Christians in general, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Europeans. (Source: www.jamaat.net/name/name3.html)

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Attorney

A legislator-in-training who hopes to grow up to be a real politician some day. See job security.

Most legilators either have been, or eventually become attorneys, who practice the very law that legislators write, leading to a horrific conflict of interest between the two professions, by which government of the people is by the attorneys, for the attorneys.

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futterbingers

IMish for butterfingers. Meaning, clumsy, particularly doing typoes.

Actual example, copied and pasted from IM:

Downstrike: ALready thger.

Downstrike: already there

Downstrike: Just call me futterbingers.

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Jehovahphobia

1. The irrational fear of the rational fear of Jehovah, or God almighty; coined in 2003 by Dave Shiflett of National Review.

1. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom", (Ps. 111:10), so fearing His name is fine. However, how is one to gain further wisdom when one fears fear itself more than one fears Jehovah?

2. Jehovahphobia is the primary motivation of evangelizing secularists to eliminate any reference to religion, especially Christian religion, from public life.

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episode

1. In literature or entertainment, a segment of a series.

2. In medicine, an instance of a medical condition.

1. Television series are shown in episodes.

2. When ill, a person may experience episodes of dizzyness or faintness.

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Pluto

An excuse for a whole bunch of astronomers to argue a lot and author new or updated books about Astronomy.

Q: How many planets are there?

A1: This week, last week, or next week?

A2: Nine; we've known that for years. No, other Pluto-like objects are planets too, so there are twelve. No, Pluto-like objects are not planets, so there are only eight.

Afterthought: Mercury isn't much bigger; can't we disqualify it too?

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