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Post by Elis on Dec 9, 2020 10:32:26 GMT
In an email someone wrote to me "I will indeed be orating froths". Does that mean anything or is it possible that sentence may just have been a victim of autocorrect? (My suspicion is they could mean they will be praying for it).
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Post by JoeP on Dec 9, 2020 11:02:58 GMT
I agree with your suspected translation. I can imagine someone orating frothily (a bad thing to do in pandemic times!) ... but orating froths makes no sense.
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Post by Elis on Dec 9, 2020 12:02:54 GMT
Thanks. Guess that may have been a combination of spelling mistakes and bad autocorrect,but wanted to be sure.
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Post by tangent on Dec 9, 2020 12:16:49 GMT
I agree, 'orating froths' makes no sense. How about 'praying depths'?
On my phone, 'orating' autocorrects to 'praying' but I can't find anything that autocorrects to 'orating'. So I suspect it's just a mistype.
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Post by Moose on Dec 9, 2020 22:27:53 GMT
That's too funny for some reason
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 14, 2020 19:03:26 GMT
Um....'frothing at the mouth'?
The 'orating' part looks like a bad machine translation of 'issuing from the mouth'...'orating'. If it is 'froth' issuing from the mouth is it 'orating frothily'?
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Post by Mari on Dec 15, 2020 9:01:19 GMT
If you're orating froth, aren't you simply preaching for people to froth, aka winding them up?
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Post by Elis on Dec 15, 2020 9:20:14 GMT
This is getting interesting.
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Post by tangent on Dec 15, 2020 19:15:45 GMT
Looking at Google's definition, I see that 'froth' has two meanings. As well as a mass of small bubbles, it can also mean 'worthless or insubstantial talk'. In that case, 'orating froth' does actually mean something, it means 'speaking nonsense'. I've never heard 'froth' used in that way.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 15, 2020 19:29:36 GMT
I suppose "frothy conversation" is a phrase. I think I've heard it used that way, have you?
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Post by tangent on Dec 15, 2020 19:41:36 GMT
Maybe so, I have a very dim memory of such.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 15, 2020 21:24:41 GMT
Frothy conversation is what you have after too many frothy beers.
Which is also the case with dim memory.
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Post by tangent on Dec 16, 2020 0:28:06 GMT
Not so many these days, I mean beer-induced frothy conversations.
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Post by Mari on Dec 18, 2020 18:25:20 GMT
So you do have frothy conversations induced by other means?
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Post by ceptimus on Dec 18, 2020 23:18:48 GMT
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