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The Word Component Code

The code which denotes the way prefixes, affixes, and suffixes are combined to form words, and along with root words and monosyllabic words constitute all the words in a language.
Though most people can see that the various components of words are combined to form all the words in a language, because so few people take the time to familiarize themselves with prefixes, affixes, and suffixes to help them comprehend words on a deeper level and communicate more effectively, some educators call that interplay between the components of words "The Word Component Code." The following are some examples of "compound words." Firefly, softball, redhead, keyboard, makeup, notebook, foreshadow, afterthought, hindsight, and foolproof. Compound words are a combination of two words but expressed as a single word. Word such as "disrespect," for example, is a different type of bisyllabic word because it is comprised of the prefix "dis," followed by and joined to the root word "respect."
by but for October 12, 2017
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Truth Court

The fictitious court of law where individuals who made a false statement (told a lie) are tried by a jury.
Truth Court is packed with spectators. The court officer wears a white police shirt with an emblem on each sleeve and a gold badge on his chest. His tie and his pants are blue, and he has a police night stick on his belt. He is Hindi, and says, “Everyone please stand.”

The judge, Jason Trickspotterspeaks, wears black frame glasses, and speaks in a southern U.S. dialect.

The judge hits his gavel once and says, “Liars Court is now in session.

The complainant is suing Mr. Pepe Roni because the day they met he told her he was single and free, but was living with the woman he had divorced a year before meeting her.
The judge asks her, “Miss please state your name.”
My name is Don’t Touch Me.”
“What do you do for a living.”

“I am the receptionist at Cutting-Edge Apps which sells apps wholesale and retail on the Web.”
“How did you meet the accused?
“He came to my company to demonstrate an app he sells called ‘Sex Rays’. While he waited he told me I was beautiful and invited me to lunch. “
“Did you accept?”
“I did, and later that day we met a few blocks from my job and ate pizza.”
“How was it?”
“It was good, Your Honor.
“Okay, Miss Touch Me, Liars Court financially compensates anyone who has been a victim of a false statement, a lie, which this court has verified took place.”
“Yes, Your Honor.”
“Did any of the lies you allege Mr. Pepe Roni told you cause you to suffer any economic loss?
by but for March 21, 2020
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WritingAllCapsNoSpaces

A way to save time/space/energy writing and reading information that is being used more often as the pace of life accelerates.
Minutes ago, the educator sent himself an email titled "PreferredSolution=StudentsWorkingInGroupsGiving&ReceivingFeedback." The technique is called WritingAllCapsNoSpaces, is © Carlos Manuel Fabara Arias 2017, and is especially useful to name files.
by but for October 26, 2017
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romance is really a business

Romantic relationships are a business—because each party is trying to get the most for the least, a negotiation, and a can culminate in a partnership where both parties reproduce themselves by having children.
C.M. Fabara realized that contradicting the prevailing understanding of what romantic relationships and love are, romance is really a business where the man and the woman both work to get the most they can by giving the least to the other person. Of course, sometimes participants in a romantic relationship "fall in love" and start giving the most they can to the other person. However, their purpose is always to get the most in return. Also, keep in mind that love is basically need. And the way it works is by making individuals feel love for someone they calculate will be able to and will satisfy one or more of their needs, such as sex, protection, connections, etc.
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impossibilitate

To make an action or thing impossible.
Usernames, passwords, and personal identification numbers (PIN) impossibilitate anyone who does not know them from entering a website or completing a financial transaction at an automatic teller machint (ATM).
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the New Year's Celebration held each year in Times Square, being surrounded by massive numbers of people made it one-hundred percent impossible for anyone from advancing.
The addictive chemicals in cigarettes make it close to impossible for smokers to stop smoking.
Drivers Licenses make it almost impossible for someone to drive without having obtained a driver's license.
Locks make it mostly impossible for anyone to enter without opening the lock with its key.
Male as well as female condoms make it as impossible as possible for a sperm to not enter the vagina.
Prisons make it close to impossible for any prisoner to escape.
Reserve parachutes make it virtually impossible for someone to continue free falling and die on impact because their main parachute did not open and they did not have a reserve parachute, or as unlikely as it seems to be, if the reserve parachute also failed to open. But there is usually no way to prevent unexpected things from happening.
The sex drive is so powerful, it impossibilitates a species' self-extinction.
Structural or electronic blocks impossibilitate certain things from taking place. But some of those what could be called—structural or electronic impossibilitators" do not always succeed.
by but for April 3, 2022
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parasitical attraction

The phrase which expresses the fact most individuals feel attracted to someone they believe can somehow give them or help them win some benefit from them, and the automatic and often uncontrollable desire to connect with those individuals or anyone who possesses something or one does not have and may be willing to share some of the things he has.
Tommy's whiter skin, coupled with her overwhelming desire to have her child's skin be lighter than hers, the young girl felt a parasitical attraction (or parasitically attracted) to him.

Individual often start acting funny when they feel attracted to someone. Women may blush and flirt, men smile. Both genders may also express body language that reveals—in usually unmistakeable and often unforgettable ways—that they feel attracted to a person.
by but for September 20, 2018
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Powerless Attire

Headwear, clothing, and footwear designed, produced, marketed and sold primarily in retail store chains which are intended to make the wearer appear less powerful and preferably powerless.
The "flat cap" exemplifies "powerless attire," garment which make the wearer look powerless. Though or perhaps because flat caps have been worn for centuries, so very few individuals realize how it really affects the appearance of the individual who wears one, the way others treat him, his identity and his self-concept. The history of the flat cap is very telling. It began to be worn in Northern England after a 1571 Act of Parliament decreed that on Sundays and holidays, all males over 6 years of age, except for the nobility and "persons of degree", were to wear woollen caps on pain of a fine of three farthings (3/4 penny) per day. The flat cap became firmly entrenched as a recognized mark of a non-noble subject, such as a burgher, tradesman, or apprentice. Police or military officer's caps have the elevation in the front and make the individuals who wear them look powerful.
by but for October 11, 2017
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