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W∴ Balboos wrote: So, it's possible to regurgitate (food).
However, there's apparently no word, gurgitate.
This is gonna bother me for a couple of days...
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Well - it really should be ungurgitate - unless you eat the same stuff, again. Then, and only then, does it make sense. Regurgitate covers the return trip IN.
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Don't go there - I've seen it done ... 
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I may have posted this earlier, but that is why Oatmeal is The Perfect Food.
Suppose you eat a bowl of oatmeal. Alas, something or other makes you nauseous. When you ungurgitate the oatmeal you are fortunate enough to catch it in your original bowl.
It looks the same as before you ate it.
It's still warm.
You can just eat it again!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It looks the same as before you ate it.
It's still warm.
You can just eat it again!
And I just about threw up into my mouth on that one 
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As a dog returneth to its vomit...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: unless you eat the same stuff, again
Ah. We now have the word for what my female greyhound does. One of her favorite things in the world to do is to eat a bunch of grass in the back yard, wander into the kitchen, expel said grass onto the tile floor, and then re-injest it. Along with anything else she'd found along the way.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: female greyhound
Well, from my point of view, she just sounds so bitchy.
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Well, one of her nicknames is "Miss Woofy McGrumpyButt", because she's always barking at our male greyhound and trying to boss him around.
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Worse: "flammable" and "inflammable" mean exactly the same thing...
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W∴ Balboos wrote: However, there's apparently no word, gurgitate.
there was in the language that English borrowed 'regurgitate' from: Latin.
From Late Latin regurgitatus, past participle of regurgitare, combined form of re- (“back”) + >gurgitare (“to engulf, flood”), from gurges (“whirlpool, gulf, sea, abyss”).
regurgitate - Wiktionary[^]
we just didn't borrow gurgitare.
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Peruse my post - went there and did that knowing someone would do what you did.
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Quote: I realize the word should properly be ungurgitate.
but that's not right. regurgitate is correct because that's the Latin word English borrowed. it's not a word English mushed together from Latin components, it's an actual Latin word.
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You may regurgitate all you wish - but that implies that you re-ingest (i.e., engulf) the opus mal.
In English, when you REdo something it means you do it again. I can affirm and reaffirm that concept. I don't care where it was borrowed from. If they don't like it they can come and get it back.
Regurgitation has an implied recursion. Stand usage is misleading; an error.
Get with the program!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: In English, when you REdo something it means you do it again.
except when "re-" means back. which it does when you back out of a parking space in reverse or when you return your friend's dictionary, or when you regurgitate things you learned on the internet.
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Chris Losinger wrote: reverse
Your version fails miserably.
Here's some verse:
It only makes your pleas the worse.
Not valid anywhere in this universe.
Just follow the flow:
Eat something
Ungergitate
Regurgitate
(Repeat as needed, like washing hair)
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your logic's invalid
the word comes from Latin
whose speakers knew all of
the meanings and rules of
the language they wrought, and
they cared less than nought that
barbarian hordes might
steal some words outright, and
disregard origins -
ignorant foreigners.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: (if I didn't, one of you would have)
+1 for the logical explanation...
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I'll have to chew the cud on that one.
Marc
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Well then. Have you ever met a gruntled employee? 
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
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theoldfool wrote: gruntled employee?
That's the original usage. For example:
'Dis gruntled employee has been causing a lot of trouble.'
Q.E.D.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: This kind of misguided lexicographical disinformation makes me nauseous.
Nauseated. 
Unless you really meant the other. 
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You'll find many similar examples in most languages. In Norwegian, I could list half a dozen of words that starts with a "u-" ("un-" in English) prefix, while the non-negated form went out of use generations ago, like "uhumsk", "ufyselig", "uflidd", "uføre", ... Sometimes, the non-negated form is found in the dictionary, but with a completely different meaning, such as "uføre" meaning trouble, but "føre" refers to weather affected driving/skiing conditions.
Look up in a dictionary other words starting with "re" - ask a programmer if recursion sometimes causes him to curse . First you peat something, then you repeat it. You member it, and later you remember it. For "in-" words, the prefix may have two different roots, either as a preposition ("inhale") or as a negation ("inappropriate"). Interpreting the preposition as a negation may lead you in the wrong way: Something referred to as "infamous" is likely to be famous as well. (By the way, the Norwegian term "infam", often quotes as a translation of "infamous", means someting quite different, like nasty and cunning, having nothing to do with being famous for it.)
I am equally fascinated by appearently similar terms in different languages, turning out to be quite different: In English, you may be "primed" for something - eager and ready to start doing it. We don't have that term in Norwegian, but we have its negation, "deprimert", de-primed. English-speaking don't use that term, they say "depressed". But being depressed is not the opposite of being pressed! Norwegian has the term "nedtrykt" (ned = down, trykk = press), but being "nedtrykt" is like being sad, far from being depressed!
And then, there is English and English... One of my books ("Big Business Blunders") refers a case where a joint effort by a British and an American company did not work out very well. For one meeting, the bosses had agreed "the cooperation issues to be tabled". Problem was that to the one party, this meant to lay the problems out on the table, "face up", for everybody to see and discuss. For the other party, "tabling" the problems meant to put them on the table face down, and not touching them. So one party was insisting on talking about those issues they had agreed to discuss, while the other party was trying to stick to the prior agreement of not letting those issues affect the meeting.
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Interesting - full of mistakes - but interesting.
Scotch Whisky is 'peated', so one could repeat that (how, I couldn't guess).
But your description of infamous (en) and infam (nr) being so different: totally wrong as you wrote it. Infamous people are those (well) known for doing nasty things. Similarly, you write '"nedtrykt" is like being sad, far from being depressed!' - no, that's what depressed means. Derivation? Pressing forward shows drive, spirit, and ambitions, so depression is the opposite thereof. Look deeper.
Primed - no doubt derived from the implication of first (1) step(s) taken toward some end, and (2) top of the heap (as in the political office Premier) or prime suspect.
Consider the use of in- as a negation; or not. It was pointed out earlier that there's flammable and inflammable, both meeting the same thing - and rolling right back into my declaration, it would be clear if one used the UN-word. Or would it? So, we have nonflammable.
As for regurgitate vs. ungurgitate: even from the latin, as the root implies to 'engulf', when one's food comes back up, one is UN-engulfing it. If one the re-ingests the materials, one is, at that time, regurgitating it.
Furthermore, per the British use of English? They've strayed from the path of righteousness long ago. The trunk of a car is called 'the boot' - but it originally was, literally, a trunk.
It's time for the world to let me set them straight.
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