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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“Impetus” is unchanged in spelling from the Latin, for “attack, impulse, vigour”, or better all three and more at once. “Inputus” is a modern, calmer, cybernetic systems redesign.
This gave the duo the inputus to find a bigger venue and put on an even bigger act.
(www.rewind-promotions.co.uk/about.html)
The current economic climate should give the us the inputus to streamline the racing ladder.
(http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthr … 443&page=2)
This must surely be the inputus for the recent share price rises.
(http://uk.messages.finance.yahoo.com/Yo … &mid=35990)
I looked for “outputus”, which would be a vigorous discharge (a sharp deflation? a hasty retreat?), and found evidence (I think) that inputus and outputus are legitimate words in Latvia, or at least from sites with country codes ‘lv’ and ‘lt’.
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