Re: Uncomprehensible! was Re: Breton, Cornish & French

"Custos Custodum" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:54:11 -0500, "Chess One" <OneChess@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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>>"Robert Peffers" <peffers50@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> In other words, you confound your Mote with your Mottel [Old
French].
>>>>>
>>>>> Just the faintest clue as to what you are talking about?
>>>>
>>>> I mentioend to Renia a while back that this poster does this. His
posts
>>>> go all uncomprehensible. I don't know whether he's taking the piss
and
>>>> trying to make people feel dim because they can't follow him, or is
he
>>>> genuinely trying to communicate. I suspect it's the former but who 
>>>> knows
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> Allan
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, Allan, I think, perhaps, that you know.
>>
>>Well, you 2 wags, I wonder if you can get over jerking each other off,
and
>>try a topic? That would be a test wouldn't it? Or is that too
>>"uncomprehensible"?
>>
>>You must consider a couple or three things in your response, that (a)
>>"uncomprehensible" may well mean that the nominal topic is
>>*in*comprehensible to /you/, and (b) that that is not my fault, since
>>indeed, anyone who can write "uncomprehensible" has a bunch of
explaining 
>>to
>>do themselves about their own "uncomprehension", and (c) that calling
>>someone "uncomprehensible" is illiterate.
>>
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> uncomprehensible  a.
>
> Obs.
>   = incomprehensible a.
> 1388 Wyclif Jer. xxxii. 19 Greet in councel, and vncomprehensible in
> thou3t.  c1532 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1057 [The soul] is
> uncomprehensyble.  1567–9 Jewel Def. Apol. 239 It is vntoucheable, and
> vncomprehensible vnto our senses.  1587 Golding De Mornay xxiv. (1592)
> 370 The matters of God which are vncomprehensible to man.  1740 Cheyne
> Regimen 185 An uncomprehensible and inexplicable Mystery.
>
> Looks like it is no more illiterate than your own use of, say,
> 'campel' in a previous post.
>
> HTH, etc., etc.
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From the COD -
uncomprehending // adj.
not comprehending.
uncomprehendingly adv.
incomprehension // n.

O.K.