This just in for AvariceBespoke: mmmmm...Lay's

[voxsartoria]

- B

 

[teddieriley]

Vox - you never struck me as someone perusing trashy tabloid sites.

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by teddieriley

Vox - you never struck me as someone perusing trashy tabloid sites.

He doesn't peruse, he reads them thoroughly.

 

[boatshoe]

Originally Posted by edmorel

He doesn't peruse, he reads them thoroughly.

That's what peruse actually means. People generally misuse it.

 

[redcaimen]

Originally Posted by boatshoe

That's what peruse actually means. People generally misuse it.

I'll be damned, your right. I'm not even going to mention how many years I have been using this word incorrectly.

 

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by redcaimen

I'll be damned, your right. I'm not even going to mention how many years I have been using this word incorrectly.
I always thought it meant both. Its one of those words which is its own opposite, like "cleave"

 

[CunningSmeagol]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

I always thought it meant both. Its one of those words which is its own opposite, like "cleave"

Or inflammable.

 

[Night Owl]

Originally Posted by edmorel

He doesn't peruse, he reads them thoroughly.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt

 

[redcaimen]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

I always thought it meant both. Its one of those words which is its own opposite, like "cleave"

I hope you are right. Im not looking forward to "engaged in a cursory examination" as a substitute. The first two online definitions I came across were not promising but I didnt peruse them all.

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by Night Owl

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt

owned on the internet, how will I ever survive.

 

[Metlin]

Originally Posted by edmorel

owned on the internet, how will I ever survive.
You're doomed. The only person who can now save you is Mandouche.

 

[AndrewRogers]

Originally Posted by edmorel

owned on the internet, how will I ever survive.

You should have zinged him back by claiming it was a highly erudite use of irony.

 

[redcaimen]

Originally Posted by AndrewRogers

You should have zinged him back by claiming it was a highly erudite use of irony.

I thought it was a comment on people who display a vast knowledge of trashy tabloid arcana.

(Is "arcana" even a word? If not, I guess I have removed all doubt.)

 

[_AMD]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

I always thought it meant both. Its one of those words which is its own opposite, like "cleave"

It does mean both.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peruse

Aaron

 

[boatshoe]

Originally Posted by _AMD

It does mean both. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peruse Aaron
Well of course it means both, especially considering that most people use it to mean the second definition. The dictionary didn't drop from the sky. It reflects usage. I was just having a little fun with definition 1. People here would appreciate that the first definition of brogue, in most dictionaries I have perused, is the shoe and not the, ya know, brogue.