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Veena.K

Friends do you hate showing your ignorance about something, I don't, in fact right now I informed Didge, I dunno the meaning of antipodean?

Posted - March 4, 2017
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  • 53509


    Admitting that you "ain't all that" is a very positive personality trait.


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      March 4, 2017 11:39 PM MST
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  • 7683
    umm gracias;))
      March 4, 2017 11:42 PM MST
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  • Antipodeans are people who live on the flip side of the planet.
      March 5, 2017 12:04 AM MST
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  • 7683
    Thanks Didge, my vocabulary enriched by a new word;))
      March 5, 2017 6:48 PM MST
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  • Dear Veena.K,

    As shocked...shocked as I might pretend to be that you are unfamiliar with antipodean antipodes, truthfully I did not know either until I met Didge in 2011 (at which time he was known as Dozy).

    Now get him to tell you about the bunyips, the secateurs, and the collywobbles...I used to keep a list, a whole new vocabulary!
      March 5, 2017 1:11 AM MST
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  • You left out bludgers, blinkers and wowsers.
      March 5, 2017 3:23 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Oh isn't that interesting,...you know Didge since 2011.,,,,,I'm meeting so many of you now.....umm should I say thanks to closing of Ask, blurtit and EP?))
    The words Didge used and you stored are all so new to me too VirginiaL;))
      March 5, 2017 6:52 PM MST
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  • Learning new words is fun. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 5, 2017 6:54 PM MST
      March 5, 2017 4:20 AM MST
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  • 7683
    Indeed you are right!
      March 5, 2017 6:54 PM MST
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  • 11015
    No, I don't hate it. In fact, most people love to enlighten me about things they know more about than I do. If someone thinks less of me for my ignorance, then I have learned something about their character.
      March 5, 2017 4:31 AM MST
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  • 7683
    Oh, I just love your answers Jane;))
      March 5, 2017 6:56 PM MST
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  • No not at all, where not expected to know everything, & if we attempted to show we knew everything, then we'd be full of crap.

    If you had of asked me what "antipodean" meant two weeks ago, I wouldn't of had the faintest idea, I only found out by chance.
     
      March 5, 2017 4:50 AM MST
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  • 53509
    (we're not expected)
    (wouldn't have had)

     
      March 5, 2017 7:47 AM MST
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  •   March 5, 2017 3:24 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Yes Austrans, but that's what people do, they attempt to show they know everything...I framed this question with that idea in mind...I could have just googled the word and acted all bright....but I didn't,..thank you for a wonderful answer! This post was edited by Veena.K at March 9, 2017 5:21 AM MST
      March 5, 2017 7:00 PM MST
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  • The pleasure is all mine Veena, more than happy to contribute to thought provoking questions, they can often test the calibre of us, thanks. :-)
      March 9, 2017 4:20 AM MST
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  • 6988
    I possess enough wackiness to mask my ignorance. Antipodean means; ' creatures with no feet.'
      March 5, 2017 6:17 AM MST
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  • OH! Every once in a while there is a truly definitive answer to a Q, bhwilson...prize to you here!
      March 5, 2017 3:34 PM MST
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  • I'm gonna pay that. No wonder I have to hobble about on a walking stick. :(
      March 5, 2017 6:51 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Indeed you are right, people mask their ignorance, admitting that one doesn't know something is becoming a rarity;))
      March 5, 2017 7:08 PM MST
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  • 19937
    No, I'm not averse to admitting I don't know something.  Having said that, however, if you have access to a computer, there is really very little reason in this day and age to be ignorant about most things.  "Google it" is not just a fun phrase.  It's a means by which to enlighten yourself.
      March 5, 2017 11:15 AM MST
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  • 7683
    I agree....one can enlighten oneself with google, I just want to probe human psyche, people usually don't like to admit their ignorance........isnt that so;))
      March 5, 2017 7:06 PM MST
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  • 19937
    It's so if they don't have much self-confidence.  A person who is self-assured has no problem admitting they don't know something.
      March 5, 2017 7:33 PM MST
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  • 7683
    That's indeed true!
      March 5, 2017 8:14 PM MST
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